Partners
Public Health Palliative Care International, End-of-Life Care Research Group (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University), Compassionate Bruges, Bruges Museums.
Public Health Palliative Care International, End-of-Life Care Research Group (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University), Compassionate Bruges, Bruges Museums.
Type
Curating, facilitating and producing a cultural and artistic program for an international public healthcare conference.
Curating, facilitating and producing a cultural and artistic program for an international public healthcare conference.
Year
2022
2022
The organizers of the Public Health Palliative Care International Conference 2022 sought to explore connections between art and science by inviting artists to participate in the conference. We brought together an interdisciplinary group of artists, including Rasa Alksnyte, Anaïs Chabeur, Florin Flueras, Fiona Hallinan, oracle (Michel Yang, Caroline Daish & Justine Maxelon), Hoda Siahtiri, Luca Vanello and Lili Vanderstraeten, whom all have a sustained artistic practice that revolves around notions of care, compassion, connection, community, loss, and grief. Through artistic gestures, interventions, presentations, performances, and workshops, they engaged in a dialogue with each other, the conference and the audience. We also invited a local network of Bruges artists and creatives to create multi-media interventions for the ceremonial moments of the conference, such as the conference dinner and the opening and closing ceremony. Lastly, in partnership with the Bruges Museums and Compassionate Bruges, we developed a cultural evening program.
