VU Medical Centre, June 2025
The Opening of the patient rooms with the artworks of Felicia Carlsson Shipo, John Cook, Hannah Falcone, Dana Haire, Isabel Heatley , Anne-Sophie de Lange, Max van Meeuwen, Lola Orihuela, Emma Panzou-Lespinasse-Ide-Lafargue, June Querido, Niloofar Salehi, Hung Fu Tsai, Daria Zvarykina and a performance by Shipo Chou will be on June 6, 2025 at the hospital VU Medical Centre in Amsterdam.
Last month also brought a new publication: Testing the Waters, The value of artistic practices for societal challenges by the Centre of Expertise Creative Innovation where our collaboration project Biome Nest got selected as a case study.
Over a period of four months in 2024, we, the Jewellery-Linking Bodies Department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, worked together with Amsterdam UMC and the VU Medical Centre on a collaborative project called Biome Nest. Coming from different disciplines – art and healthcare – we wanted to rethink what bodies are and how care is understood within our society. The Jewellery-Linking Bodies department was invited to respond specifically to the built environment of four new patient rooms at the VU Medical Centre’s division of Gynecological Oncology.
