Through a fusion of personal experience and art, the contributors help us understand the lived realities of individuals with head and neck cancer. Featuring original art from Ingrid Bachmann, Sean Caulfield, Jude Griebel, Jill Ho-You, Heather Huston, and Bradley Necyk, this collaborative, interdisciplinary exploration draws together the voices of patients, health care practitioners, researchers, and artists to offer a more holistic—more human—understanding of cancer treatment and its aftermath. Art–Medicine Collaborative Practice will resonate with people with head or neck cancer as well as medical practitioners who aid in their healing process. It is an important book for all those in the health professions and medical humanities, as well as artists, arts-based researchers, and those interested in the areas of health and visual communication and knowledge translation.
Contributors: Ingrid Bachmann, Pamela Brett-MacLean, Sean Caulfield, Kimberly Flowers, Jude Griebel, Bahaa Harmouche, Jill Ho-You, Heather Huston, Bernie Krewski, Lianne McTavish, Suresh Nayar, Bradley Necyk, Leslie O’Connor-Parsons, Kyle Terrence, Helen Vallianatos, Minn N. Yoon
Pamela Brett-MacLean is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine program in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta.
Lianne McTavish is Professor in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta. She specializes in early modern visual culture, critical museum theory, and the history of the body.
Foreword
The “see me, hear me, heal me” Project / Minn N. Yoon
Preface
Before the Beginning…and Then / Leslie O’Connor-Parsons
Introduction
Expanding Relational Possibilities Through Collaborative Streams of Inquiry and Dialogue / Pamela Brett-Maclean
In FLUX
FLUX 1
A Curatorial Introduction / Lianne McTavish
Bradley Necyk
Jude Griebel
A (High Wire) Dance / Suresh Nayar & Bernie Krewski
Jill Ho-You
Heather Huston
Feeding New Selves / Helen Vallianatos
Sean Caulfield
Ingrid Bachmann
When Design Meets Real Life / Bahaa Harmouche
Healing in the Most Unexpected Ways / Kimberly Flowers
“see me, hear me, heal me” Video Documentation / Kyle Terrance
Afterword
The “see me, hear me, heal me” Project as Research-Creation for Social Change
Pamela Brett-Maclean & Minn N. Yoon
Project Timeline
Minn N. Yoon & Pamela Brett-Maclean
Contributors