Healing War Through Art: Open Seminar

When

07/05/2014    
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Where

Room G4 University of Brighton
Grand Parade, Brighton, BN2 0JY

Event Type

Healing War Through Art

The Centre for Research in Memory Narrative and Histories will be hosting an open seminar called Healing War Through Art. The seminar will focus upon the forthcoming exhibition with the same name and is partnered by the Design Archives. See here for details.

Lucy Noakes (chair)

Gill Scott: On the making of ‘Healing War Through Art’

Pawel Leszkowicz: Curating and Representing Art as Therapy in the First World War

Tomasz Kitlinski: Some philosophical and psychoanalytical perspectives on the utterances of wounded inter-subjectivities

Jo Harrison: Drawing on Pavilion Blues: Therapeutic Applications

In these presentations, organisers of the exhibition will use interdisciplinary approaches to explore its central theme: the art and craft rehabilitation training of limbless soldiers from the Pavilion Hospital at Queen Mary Workshop and Brighton School of Art in the First World War

 

Image: At the Brighton School of Art, limbless soldiers are being trained as wood carvers and sign-writers, Daily Graphic, 15 February 1918 (Brighton School of Art Archive, University of Brighton Design Archives)

This is a free and open seminar, however booking is essential.