Graphic Medicine Conference Imagination, Mediation & Manifestation (Beeld: Octavia Roodt)
De Doelen, Jurriaanse Zaal (Michelle Urbiztondo)
De Doelen – Jurriaanse Zaal
The Jurriaanse Zaal is located on the first floor of De Doelen and can be reached by stairs from the Jurriaanse Hall via the Jurriaanse Foyer
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.
Octavia Roodt
Octavia Roodt is a South African artist and researcher based in Belgium. A love of comics lured her away from the sunshine of her homeland to a residency in Angoulême, where she discovered an incredible range of visual storytelling and a healthy dose of culture shock. Somewhere along the way, Flanders stole her heart.
Octavia Roodt is a South African artist and researcher based in Belgium. A love of comics lured her away from the sunshine of her homeland to a residency in Angoulême, where she discovered an incredible range of visual storytelling and a healthy dose of culture shock. Somewhere along the way, Flanders stole her heart.
These days, she has laid her pen at the feet of a PhD at KU Leuven and LUCA School of Arts, where she works with a brilliant multidisciplinary team at the intersection of communication sciences, health humanities, care and ecological thinking. Together, they explore how comics can help people living with dementia share stories, memories and experiences. Her work is guided by the belief that drawing can open conversations that words alone cannot.
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.
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.
