Art4med | Art, health and biomedical research

Art4med is a cultural cooperation project that fosters encounters between art practices and biomedical health research. Art4med is a 2 years project (2020-2022) centered on the intersection of art, health, and biomedical research. It intends to foster these encounters between art practices and biomedical health research in a fast-changing societal environment, under the influence of big data, material and technical innovation. It addresses the exclusion of marginalized groups from healthcare, global migrations, collapses in environmental health and the need for radical care in these pandemic times. They propose to form a consortium: 5 partners from 5 EU countries will unite around their common interest to experiment and disseminate collaborations between hands-on medical humanities and investigative art methodologies. In 2021 and 2022, the consortium will propose 5 residencies, 5 symposiums, talks, co-creative methodology workshops, online collaborations, hands-on sessions, exhibitions, and a final publication and festival in Paris.
Art4med aims to:
- Build-up interdisciplinary transnational cooperation between artists and the health sector in order to support and produce exploratory artistic projects that promote access to healthcare;
- Open new fields of creative experimentation for artists to challenge the current status of science and healthcare;
- Enable cross-fertilization and sharing of knowledge, technologies, skills and experiences among artists, researchers and open/citizen science communities, and provide conditions for fruitful creative exchanges.
- Produce open and transferable resources to better understand co-creative processes between art, science and technology;
- Raise audience awareness of the role of artists in opening disruptive paths that significantly tackle societal and technological challenges in access to healthcare, beyond the scope of existing art-science peer communities.
During 2021-2022, Art4med takes the form of extended residencies, a series of workshops, seminars, and exhibitions in Finland and across Europe. Art4med is a collaboration between Makery (FR), Waag (NL), Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology (DK), Bioart Society (FI), and Kersnikova (SI). It is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. In 2021 and 2022, the consortium will propose 5 residencies, 5 symposiums, talks, co-creative methodology workshops, online collaborations, hands-on sessions, exhibitions, and a final publication and festival in Paris.