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.
The Many Lives of Milk at the Wellcome Collection
Lauren Cantos visits and reviews ‘Milk’, an exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, 30 March – 10 September 2023.
Sensitive Subjects Pt. 3: Acknowledging Complexity in Creative Practice Ethics
Olivia Turner explores the need for ‘ethical curatorial practices’ that ‘inherently question power dynamics’ through George Vasey’s talk, Curating Complexity, and his time as Curator at the Wellcome Collection
What Are You Waiting For? Our living archive of waiting
In the sixth post of the Waiting Times takeover, Michael Flexer reflects on the process of enacting publicly engaged research and how a ‘living archive’ came into being. “The time on dialysis is dead
‘Chiasmic time’: Being-in-time in Time Being
In the fourth post of our Waiting Times series, Laura Salisbury and Lisa Baraitser reflect on Ruairí Corr and Deborah Robinson’s short film: Time Being. Time Being – a film commissioned by Waiting Times
The “Meanwhiles” of Post-War Cultures of Care
In the second of the Waiting Times takeover, Kelechi Anucha reflects on the temporality of the ‘meanwhile’ and how it operates in post-war spaces of care In the animated comedy television series SpongeBob SquarePants,
Introduction to the Waiting Times Project: Key Findings
In the first of our Waiting Times takeover, Lisa Baraitser and Laura Salisbury introduce us to the project: its context, questions, ambitions, and findings. We started working on the Waiting Times project in 2015,
In the Zine House: The Hallway and the Balcony
In the final part of Lea Cooper’s series about zines in the medical humanities, we move through the Hallway and out onto the Balcony to consider zines, libraries and research.
In the Zine House: The Garden
Zines that connect to plants, the environment and nature often distribute knowledges with long histories as well as offering new ways of relating to the future, says Lea Cooper.
In the Zine House: The Kitchen
We explore zines that centre food in part four of Lea Cooper’s series about the study of zines in the medical humanities.