‘Mrs Average of the UK’ Makes Something of Her Menopause
Arlene Jackson’s reflective cyanotype prints allow the sun’s rays to transform a body dehumanised by sexist medical disbelief into ‘something extraordinary’.
From Pandemic Stress to Nature Connection
A quiet practice of attention, belonging, and rest in urban parks from Yewande Okuleye.
Poetry as Chronic Illness Research: ‘Another Attempt’
Jane Hartshorn’s poetry experiments within the contradictory and temporary spaces of chronic illness, reflecting rather than controlling the experience.
Practice Research and Chronic Illness: ‘Fatigue Questionnaires’
Alec Finlay explores medical fatigue questionnaires through ‘subversion by means of soft poetics’.
Creating Mad Memorials: ‘A Place of Safety’
Lea Cooper discusses and shares images of their PhD work, in which zine making was both research method and research focus.
Practice Research and Pregnancy: ‘Embryology Lessons’
Sabina Dosani explores the tensions between biomedical knowledge and embodied subjectivity through creative writing.
Developing an Accessible, Multi-Sensory Feedback System for Performance Evaluation
Ellen Richardson and Michael J. Flexer describe an evaluation approach to performance, drawing on audience response, that combines words, sounds, and movement.
Squeeze Box: Disability-Activist Performance and Creative Evaluation
Ellen Richardson, Michael J Flexer, Hugh Malyon and Jennifer Noice discuss new ways of evaluating artistic interventions to provide clear evidence of the importance of arts-based community engagement
‘Creative Adaptation is our New Task’: Art and Chronic Illness
Artists Alec Finlay, Katie MacLachlan and Brighid Ó Dochartaigh reflect on art as witness to erased realities (part two of two).
Chronic Illness and Creative Recuperation
Three artists with Long Covid discuss their process of creative recuperation.