Dr Chris Dooks: 'The Fragmented Filmmaker'
23rd January 2019, 3-4.30pm
Medical School, Teviot, Doorway 3, 1.420 Teaching Room 8
This seminar explores Chris Dooks’ 2015 reflexive studio doctorate The Fragmented Filmmaker: Emancipating The Exhausted Artist and the related socio-philosophical model of ‘Idioholism.’
Dooks, an interdisciplinary artist with a background in broadcast television and film, will present, on vinyl records, the PhD works and explore the trajectory of being a practitioner of first-person art and wellbeing projects.
With the audience, the session will be an opportunity to explore the potential and pitfalls of applying what was initially an autoethnographic project into a social model of ‘Community Idioholism’ where chronically ill and housebound sufferers may co-design, with an artist, their prescriptive re-engagement with a life lost through ill health.
The Health Humanities and Arts seminar series is hosted by the School of Health in Social Science, and Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry
https://www.ed.ac.uk/health/research/ccri
Seminars are open to all, no need to book. Any queries please contact Amy Chandler, a.chandler@ed.ac.uk