Suze Berkhout
Suze Berkhout is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and an affiliate of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. She is an early career clinician-investigator and practicing psychiatrist. Her program of research in feminist Science and Technology Studies (STS) utilizes ethnographic, narrative and arts-based methods to explore social and cultural issues impacting access and navigation through health care systems. She loves coffee and thinking about how to complicate the narratives we share with each other in medicine.
Curating Critical Futurities in Transplant Medicine is a pop-up art installation that showcases visual, sonic, and multimedia artistic works created to explore the complexities, unknowns, and lived experiences of solid organ transplantation. The pieces presented have been developed as part of the Frictions of Futurity and Cure in Transplant Medicine Project, a multi-year, research-creation study that unabashedly sits at the convergence of crip technoscience, feminist science and technology studies, and arts-based research engaged with disability arts and artists. The impetus for the project comes, in part, from an understanding that artistic practices can generate “speculative frames through which to defamiliarize and reorganize the local” (Loveless 2019). By transporting art out of the gallery and into a national transplant conference, we invite a reconsideration of art: as intervention, as a way to generate, reveal, name, alter and engage with the multiplicity of experiences within transplantation. The pop-up installation persuades us to know differently, so as to materialize liveability and thriving in a transplantation lifeworld as political, creative acts.
Frictions of Futurity Project Arts-Mobilization Team
- Dr. Suze Berkhout
- Dr. Kelly Fritsch
- Ms. Eva-Marie Stern
- Chloe Wong-Mersereau
- Alexandra Frankel
Guest Curator
- Ms. Élise Desaulniers
Speakers: Suze Berkhout, Chloe Wong-Mersereau, Élise Desaulniers
Curating Critical Futurities in Transplant Medicine is a pop-up art installation that showcases visual, sonic, and multimedia artistic works created to explore the complexities, unknowns, and lived experiences of solid organ transplantation. The pieces presented have been developed as part of the Frictions of Futurity and Cure in Transplant Medicine Project, a multi-year, research-creation study that unabashedly sits at the convergence of crip technoscience, feminist science and technology studies, and arts-based research engaged with disability arts and artists. The impetus for the project comes, in part, from an understanding that artistic practices can generate “speculative frames through which to defamiliarize and reorganize the local” (Loveless 2019). By transporting art out of the gallery and into a national transplant conference, we invite a reconsideration of art: as intervention, as a way to generate, reveal, name, alter and engage with the multiplicity of experiences within transplantation. The pop-up installation persuades us to know differently, so as to materialize liveability and thriving in a transplantation lifeworld as political, creative acts.
Frictions of Futurity Project Arts-Mobilization Team
- Dr. Suze Berkhout
- Dr. Kelly Fritsch
- Ms. Eva-Marie Stern
- Chloe Wong-Mersereau
- Alexandra Frankel
Guest Curator
- Ms. Élise Desaulniers
Speakers: Suze Berkhout, Chloe Wong-Mersereau, Élise Desaulniers
Curating Critical Futurities in Transplant Medicine is a pop-up art installation that showcases visual, sonic, and multimedia artistic works created to explore the complexities, unknowns, and lived experiences of solid organ transplantation. The pieces presented have been developed as part of the Frictions of Futurity and Cure in Transplant Medicine Project, a multi-year, research-creation study that unabashedly sits at the convergence of crip technoscience, feminist science and technology studies, and arts-based research engaged with disability arts and artists. The impetus for the project comes, in part, from an understanding that artistic practices can generate “speculative frames through which to defamiliarize and reorganize the local” (Loveless 2019). By transporting art out of the gallery and into a national transplant conference, we invite a reconsideration of art: as intervention, as a way to generate, reveal, name, alter and engage with the multiplicity of experiences within transplantation. The pop-up installation persuades us to know differently, so as to materialize liveability and thriving in a transplantation lifeworld as political, creative acts.
Frictions of Futurity Project Arts-Mobilization Team
- Dr. Suze Berkhout
- Dr. Kelly Fritsch
- Ms. Eva-Marie Stern
- Chloe Wong-Mersereau
- Alexandra Frankel
Guest Curator
- Ms. Élise Desaulniers
Speakers: Suze Berkhout, Chloe Wong-Mersereau, Élise Desaulniers
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