Creative Conversations Video Art and Health: John Quin
John Quin in conversation about his book Video Art and Health
CreativeConversations
Date: Monday 25 September 2023
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: Adam Smith Business School PGT 587
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: John. Quin
Video is everywhere. But what is video art and how does it differ from cinema? What connections has it made with healthcare and medicine? And what implications might these connections have for how we approach our physical and mental health?
Breaking new ground Video acts as an accessible introduction to the potential value of this medium within medical practice, patient care, and everyday creative expression.
Pairing examples with specific health conditions and themes John Quin presents a series of video artworks and their potential benefit for patients, carers and clinicians.
Heeding the rise of ‘amateur’ forms of video-making, shared through platforms such as YouTube, TikTok and Instragram John also considers how the wide reach and convenience of social media is impacting on health and wellbeing as popular interest in the medium continues to evolve.
Artists discussed in Video include Bill Viola, Christian Boltanski, Steve McQueen, Anri Sala, Gillian Wearing, Christine Borland, Rodney Graham, Douglas Gordon, Jacqueline Donachie and many others.
Video is John’s second book – his first, Dr. Quin, Medicine Man, a memoir of life in the NHS, got a four-star review in The Times in 2021. John is a retired consultant physician specialising in general medicine, diabetes and endocrinology. He worked at the Royal Sussex County Hospital. He has been writing on art, literature, and music for more than twenty years for publications including ArtReview, frieze, the Quietus, Tagesspiegel, the Wire, the Irish Times, the Guardian, the Tablet, the BMJ and the Lancet. He has a weekly book review column in the National.
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