Health installations
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Waiting Rooms Why are you waiting? Where are you waiting? What is worth waiting for? |
Waiting is a constant of the human condition. It has a variety of temperamental frequencies, emotional volumes, spatial and perceptual dimensions. |
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Flowers for Paraguay
2016, Hospital Clinicas San Lorenzo and Museo de Hospital y Clinicas in Asunción, Paraguay Flowers for the Waiting Room is a collaborative project currently extending across three continents, based in the U.S. Midwest with partners in Paraguay and China. The project explores narratives around the themes of healthcare access and lived experiences with illness through the perspectives of patients, their families and friends, healthcare providers and the general public. The goal of the project is to give voice to the concerns of these individuals, and to collect, share and compare attitudes around healthcare through various personal and societal lenses. |
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Last Resort
2015, University of Washburn, Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, Kansas The phrase ‘last resort' generally refers to a final action undertaken only when there is no other option.Here is has multiple meanings. This body of work is a personal exploration of memories and the process of packing up an aging parent's house, dementia and mental illness. Installation views |
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Gray Matters
2014, Glore Psychiatric Museum, Saint Joseph, Missouri Gray Matters is one of a series of tableaux installations that combines sculpture, image and sound, and invites public messaging in the exhibition space. Booklets compiled from visitor participation at previous installations, along with additional artworks and writings, expand on the subject of mental health by offering literary, historical and contemporary context in relation to the artworks and objects on display. Installation views |
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The Geography of Waiting
2013, University of Groningen, The Netherlands With content collected and developed from contributions made by individuals internationally (both non-artist and artist), the installation presents a cross-sensory, concentrated evocation of this liminal mode of being. Personal narratives, archetypal objects, and photographs of places have been shared, gathered, recorded, interpreted, measured, cataloged, and composed. The resulting images, video, sound, text, sculpture, website, and interactive social media culminate here in a waiting-room-like space. Project website |
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DropIN PopUP Waiting Room
2013-2012, University of Kansas Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas Healthcare delivery and access is one of today’s most pressing societal issues. The installation explores this complex topic through the psychologically rich context of the waiting room: the place—often anxious, frustrating, and isolating—where people wait to interface with the medical system. Project website Press |
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The Waiting Room: Lost and Found
2014, Hand Art Center, Stetson University, DeLand, Florida 2012, Sabatini Gallery, Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, Topeka Kansas 2010, Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, St. Catherine University, St. Paul, Minnesota The Waiting Room is a multimedia participatory collaborative installation, that examines women's health and healthcare through aesthetic, scientific, cultural, political, economic and literary lenses. Project website A Waiting Room Of One's Own (publication, online version) |
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Diagnostik
2001-2000, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Museum, Iowa City, Iowa This installation strives to provoke contemplation and dialogue concerning preconceptions about the mentally ill and the dignity of the individual patient. Stimulated by photographs, documents and objects from the collections of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Medial Museum, the exhibition represents an aesthetic and critical response to the history of mental health care. Description Installation views Diagnostik on-line exhibit University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Museum |