Virginia Commonwealth University VCU Scholars Compass VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff ubP lications VCU Libraries 2016 Art and Medicine: A Collaborative Project Between Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar and Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar Amy J. Andres Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, [email protected] Thomas R. Himsworth Virginia Commonwealth University, [email protected] Alan Weber Weill Cornell Medicine, Qatar, [email protected] Stephen Scott Weill Cornell Medicine, Qatar, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/libraries_pubs Part of the Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Commons, Medical Education Commons, and the Medical Humanities Commons Recommended Citation Himsworth, R., Andres, A., Weber, A., & Scott, S. (2016). Art and medicine: A collaborative project between Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar and Weill Cornell Medicine, Qatar. Doha: Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. 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Rhys Himsworth Dr Alan Weber Amy Andres Dr Stephen Scott Noor Al-Thani Habeeb Abu-Futtaim Abdul Rahman Amelie Beicken Art & Mohammad Jawad MEDICINE Emelina Soares A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT BETWEEN Virginia Commonwealth University–Qatar & Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar Farah Al Sayyed Eman Al-Musleh Mu Ji Hwang Faryal Malick Yanal Shaheen Rebal Turjoman Art & MEDICINE Art & MEDICINE a collaborative project between Virginia Commonwealth University–Qatar & Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar 1 Art & MEDICINE 2 3 Art & MEDICINE 4 5 CREDITS & THANK YOU Art & MEDICINE GUEST SPEAKERS LEAD PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR Michael Perrone Rhys Himsworth, Director Dr Marco Ameduri Painting and Printmaking VCUQatar Dr Cherif Amor CO PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR Ossama Obeid Amy Andres Peter Martin Interim Director of Libraries, VCUQatar George Awde Dr Debra Hanson CO PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR Dr Rachel Koshi Dr Alan Weber Dr Avelin Malyango Associate Professor of English, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar Dr Julien Abinahed CO PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR Dr Nikhil Navkar Dr Stephen Scott Georges Younes Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar Mouhyemen Khan Faiyadh Shahid Saila Maham VCUQATAR STUDENTS Marilene Oliver Noor Al-Thani Dr Maneesh Khanna Habeeb Abu-Futtaim Abdul Rahman Amelie Beicken COURSE CONTENT Mohammad Jawad Rhys Himsworth, Amy Andres Emelina Soares EXHIBITION CURATION Rhys Himsworth WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE-QATAR STUDENTS CATALOGUE WRITINGS Farah Al Sayyed Dr Alan Weber and Amy Andres Eman Al-Musleh CATALOGUE DESIGN Mu Ji Hwang Michael Hersrud Faryal Malick Yanal Shaheen PHOTOGRAPHY Rebal Turjoman Rhys Himsworth, Amy Andres & Leila Natsheh THE FACULTY AND STUDENTS WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS FOR THEIR COLLABORATION AND SUPPORT Qatar Foundation VCUQatar Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar Hamad Bin Khalifa Student Center Hamad Medical Corporation Qatar Robotic Surgery Center Qatar Science and Technology Park Qatar Robotics Institute of Development Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar 6 7 CONTENTS Art & MEDICINE CONTENTS Page 10 Introductory Essay THE LEARNING LABORATORY Page 21 Learning Laboratory Page 22 Introductory Lecture Page 25 Color Theory Page 27 Environmental Experience Page 29 Chromothesia Page 40 So, What Do We Want To Do? Page 44 The Gaze Page 46 The Body Page 50 Medical Technologies 1 Page 57 Medical Technologies 2 Page 65 Visiting Artist Marilene Oliver Page 68 Medical Imaging STUDENT PROJECTS Page 74 Faryal Malick and Amelie Beicken Page 75 Yanal Shaheen and Emelina Soares Page 78 Farah Al Sayyed and Noor Al-Thani Page 81 Mohhammad Jawad and Mu Ji Hwang Page 82 Eman Mosleh and Abdul Rahman Page 83 Rebal Turjoman and Habeeb Abu-Futtaim FINAL PROJECTS Page 89 Introduction Page 98 Inside Out Page 104 Passing Away. Demise, Irreversible Cessation Page 110 Crafting the Virtual Into Reality Page 116 Proprioceptive Allodynia Page 122 Underneath Within Page 128 An Essence of Presence PROJECT ANALYSIS Page 136 Project Analysis 8 9 INTRODUCTORY ESSAY Art & MEDICINE and Medicine Project structured as an experiential learning laboratory for six art students and six medical students (www.artandmedicine.net). A related funded research study collected quantitative and qualitative Art and Medicine data on interprofessional collaboration and changes in attitudes and practices of art and medical students after working together to develop major works of art. in Qatar — Global Students participated in workshops, lectures and site visits to engage the concepts and practices of color theory, robotic surgery, medical imaging, and the medical gaze. Students additionally designed Perspectives on an and built a light installation in the medical college called Chromos- thesia, based on the work of James Turrell, Spencer Finch, and Rafael Interdisciplinary Lozano-Hemmer. This project developed in the unique context of Qatar which has witnessed explosive growth of the arts. Using the substantial revenue from natural resources exports during the petroleum boom in Experience the early part of this century, Qatar has embarked on a planned devel- opmental path that includes major investments in the arts, education, museums, tourism, and cultural heritage. Investment in the arts includes In a 2011 editorial in Leonardo Reviews Quarterly, Michael Punt encouragement of local traditions as well as engagement with interna- asks questions about what happens when two cultures interface: Alan S. Weber Associate Professor of English, tional experimental and avant-garde art developments. Education City, What knowledge is transferred or constructed? And by whom Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar which includes VCU-Q and WCM-Q, is a consortium of nine mainly U.S. 1 and to whom? While at this point there is no standardized university branch campuses dedicated to innovation in research and arts-science practice, and no clear vision of what such a practice Rhys Himsworth education. The newly established Qatar National Research Fund has might look like, it is clear that much of the knowledge transfer Director of Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar granted over 600 Million dollars of funding for ground-breaking and construction has been focused on bringing arts and design research in the arts and sciences. Thus artistic expression, experimen- to the sciences and medicine. Artists and designers hold the skill Amy Andres tation and novel research and knowledge production is highly valued sets that are viewed as beneficial for informing medical practice. Interim Director of Libraries, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar in Qatar, in contrast to some of the country’s more conservative Gulf Lacking in the conversation are the questions: What can science neighbors with much lower R&D and education budgets. The director of bring to the arts? What happens when art and design work is Stephen Scott Qatar Museums Authority, Sheikha Al-Mayassa Al Thani, considered by informed by scientific practice and processes? Addressing these Associate Professor of Family Medicine in some to be the most powerful woman in the art world today, has led the questions was one of the major aims of the collaboration described in this Medicine; Associate Dean for Student Affairs; Consultant, HMC; Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar development of two major Arabic art museums, and opened exhibitions catalogue. In addition to cultivating a mutually insightful, disciplinary of Shirin Neshat, Adel Abdessemed, Damien Hirst, and Richard Serra in transfer of information and ideas, we designed a course and a set of Doha. The showcased student work described in this catalogue all inter- experiences that would bridge the gulf between the arts and sciences by rogated some aspect of the human body and the relationship between bringing medicine and science directly into arts and design. We strove medicine and art and design within these dual contexts of modern art to create scenarios in which the students from the medical sciences and traditional Muslim society. The body was an area of enquiry about could bring their knowledge and skill sets to the conceptualization and which both medical and art students appeared to connect spontaneously. design of art works. You will see some of the results inside these pages. This project is just one collaborative effort, in one part of the An innovative Art and Medicine collaboration between Qatar’s world. No matter the approach, such steps must continue to be taken art and design school Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar (VCUQ) in all corners of the globe if we are to realize the full potential and ben- and medical college Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) was estab- efits of interdisciplinary endeavors. The Art and Medicine Project can lished in the Spring of 2015. The four collaborators working in the fields be contextualized within several other current trends in the practice of of Art and Design and Medical Education–Rhys Himsworth and Amy art in the postmodern and postcolonial world as well as within current Andres of VCU-Q and Alan Weber and Stephen Scott of Weill Cornell art education and medical education theory. The unique and inno- Medicine-Qatar –developed a workshop-based cross-disciplinary Art vative nature of this collaboration–the first of its kind in the