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Extraordinary Everyday: Further Explorations in Collaborative Art in Health Care

Extraordinary Everyday: Further Explorations in Collaborative Art in Health Care
Library Shelf Location 17.COLL
Publication Date Dec 2005
Description Extraordinary Everday is a new publication by Artlink which presents collaborative working in arts and healthcare settings. Artists worked with a diverse network of people over the last few years including cleaners, ambulance drivers, switchboard operators, patients and ex-patients, managers, scripwriters, porters, nurses, doctors,actors, architects, neurologists, self-help groups, playworkers and children. The book explores the possibilities and the issues involved in establishing and developing creative relationships between artists and members of the hospital community. The 14 Functionsuite Projects include: The New Republic - a children's utopia built in a courtyard over looked by a children's ward. A Paper Marriage- a video about bees and beekeeping, bringing the private pastime of a member of hospital staff into the public realm of the hospital. May Day Pavilion- a temporary structure in the grounds of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital made from recycled non-clinical hospital waste. and the trainees - monthly luncheonswith invited guests from the artistic and hospital communities
ISBN 9780955188206
Quantity 1
Pages 166 Pages
Editor Artlink
Format Hardback
Publisher Artlink Edinburgh and the Lothians
Category Group Exhibition/Multiple Artists
Keywords Health and related concepts, Collaboration
Language English

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