In een drietal lezingen krijgen bezoekers een indruk van wat graphic medicine behelst. De Britse huisarts Ian Williams, bedenker van de term, geeft een algemene inleiding. De Britse architect en maker van grapic novels Sabba Khan vertelt over haar werk, waarin medische invalshoeken een belangrijke rol spelen. De uit Zuid-Afrika afkomstige, in België werkende Octavia Roodt is vooral bekend van haar bevreemdende verhalen, maar werkt ook aan promotie-onderzoek in het veld.
With a master’s thesis on autobiographical comics, South African Octavia Roodt (born 1995) resided at La Maison des Auteurs in Angoulême in 2021. There, she developed a keen interest in Belgian comics. In 2022, she finally settled in Belgium. Octavia is currently researching graphic medicine, combining the power of poetry, meditation, and drawing.
Sabba Khan is an award-winning author bringing together visual art, architecture and storytelling into a practice that asks pertinent questions of our times. Sabba Khan’s debut graphic novel The Roles We Play won the Jhalak prize and was one of the Guardian’s best books of the year in 2021. Her graphic novel takes her working-class diasporic roots to interrogate class, race and gender in contemporary life in the UK. The medium of comics and sequential art form a central praxis to her approach, at once accessible and immediate, they are a way to examine and make sense of complex and entangled systems and structures, for both the private and the public. As such, Sabba’s work takes you on a journey, one of critical reflection, curious questioning, and ultimately deeper understanding.
