Doctoral candidate in Film and Visual Culture (FVC) Brian Keeley will present his ongoing research and artistic work at the forthcoming Northern Network for Medical Humanities Congress (NNMHR) 2021. The congress covers a range of perspectives on the theme of invisibility in the medical humanities. To get a glimpse on Brian Keeley’s work, visit his new online exhibition 'Shared Heart' co-authored with Bibo Keeley. The George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture is proud to host this exhibition on its website: https://visualcultureaberdeen.wordpress.com/3696-2/ The exhibition features also in the P&J journal: https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen/3018664/artist-given-a-second-chance-at-life-through-heart-transplant-hopes-latest-exhibition-will-raise-awareness-of-new-organ-donation-law/ The FVC honours student Julie Carlsen has also been selected to present at the NNMHR congress. Carlsen will showcase her experimental video essay, what it feels like (2020) which was completed as part of the assessment for the course Cinema and Science coordinated by Dr Silvia Casini and open also to medicine students. Inspired by trauma texts and twentieth-century visual culture, Carlsen’s video essay explores how neurodivergent or psychosomatic experiences might be visualised and narrativised. According to Carlsen, advancing this format of visual storytelling would allow marginalised voices of patients to break taboos and share their experiences, to build understanding of internal processes that remain otherwise inaccessible to others.
LLMVC students present work at forthcoming Northern Network for Medical Humanities Congress 2021