Quásares celebrates the Culture and Health Meeting from 23 to 25 September in Seville

Illustration by Adela Angulo

The meeting will provide a space for sharing projects, research and learning from the interface between culture and health.

The concomitance Quasars, mediated by Felipe G. Gil, Zemos98, will be holding on 23, 24 and 25 September the Culture and Health Meeting, an appointment that seeks to building bridges between artistic practice, research and healthcare processes. The proposal stems from the conviction that health care cannot be limited to the clinical sphere alone, but must also integrate cultural, emotional and social dimensions.

The meeting will provide a space for the exchange of knowledge and experiences on what is known in the healthcare field as the “humanisation of care”: a movement which, in recent decades, has been consolidating as a field of study and action, and which finds in art a tool capable of having a positive impact on public health.

Over three days, the programme brings together professionals from the fields of medicine, cultural mediation, the arts, research and journalism. The first session is dedicated to opening the framework for discussion on cultural policies and approaches to humanisation in healthcare, with the participation of experts such as Coral Larrosa, Javier Padilla, Inmaculada Vázquez Cruz, Juan Antonio Virizuela, Jazmín Beirak y Noemi Avila. The autobiographical account will also be presented Brief Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Cancer by Josune Urrutia.

The second day will focus on concrete experiences exploring the intersection between culture and health, with projects such as Yo Cuento, Recipe Culture, Psychohabitation, Radiation +++, RecuperArte y Emotions through art. The day will conclude with a guided tour of the Quasars Collection together with Raquel Taranilla and Samuel Fernández-Pichel.

The final day will focus on initiatives that address the relationship between art and cancer, such as Quasars o At ground level, who work from the point of view of accompaniment and situated artistic creation. The closing will be in charge of Isabel Cadenas, who will deliver a performative lecture entitled Audiovisual Source Code, The exhibition, an intimate journey through his creative universe and his link with the experience of illness. Check out the full programme here:

With this programme, Quásares reaffirms its commitment to the creation of an interdisciplinary space that fosters new ways of thinking and practising care, where art becomes a fundamental ally in broadening the perspectives of collective health and well-being.

“Quásares: Encuentro de Cultura y Salud” takes place within the framework of the Quásares project, a project of the International University of Andalusia (UNIA), Quirónsalud, the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation and Concomitentes, coordinated by ZEMOS98. The Encounter is also an activity subsidised by the Ministry of Culture.