Art and the Critical Medical Humanities workshop

Taking place at the Royal College of Art, London from 19-21 June 2024, the workshop is a collaboration between the Visual and Material Lab, Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities, Durham University and Confabulations: art practice, art history, critical medical humanities; and the Health & Care Research Cluster at the Royal College of Art. It is co-convened by the team behind Confabulations, Fiona Johnstone (Visual and Material Lab, Durham University), Allison Morehead (Queen’s University, Canada), Imogen Wiltshire (Lincoln University); and Gemma Blackshaw and Alice Butler from the Royal College of Art.

The programme for Wednesday 19th June is curated by the Health & Care Research Cluster at the Royal College of Art, and involves presentations and performances from RCA staff, students and alumni working on the intersections of creative research practices with questions of health and care. The programme for Thursday 20th and Friday 21st is curated by Confabulations: art practice, art history, critical medical humanities and the Visual and Material Lab, Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities, Durham University. Participants will workshop contributions to the forthcoming field-defining edited volume Art & the Critical Medical Humanities (eds. Johnstone, Morehead and Wiltshire, Bloomsbury Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities, 2025), and collectively dream big about the future(s) of the emerging field of visual, material and curatorial medical humanities.

Find out more about the programme here.