Join us for a virtual panel discussion on Facebook Live featuring artists and health policy-makers, hosted by David W. Robinson-Morris, Ph.D., curator of the CAC's 2021 Gulf South Exhibition: "Behind Every Beautiful Thing: Encountering Bodies, Wrestling the Human Condition."
The panel discussion will be streamed on Facebook Live on the CAC's Facebook page. RSVP on Facebook below to be reminded to tune in.
About the Exhibition
Featuring multimedia artworks from 36 Gulf South artists, "Behind Every Beautiful Thing: Encountering Bodies, Wrestling the Human Condition" offers a deeply personal portrayal of artists’ experiences with health and illness, and the reverberating impact on the life, body, and psyche of the individual and their community.
About the Discussion
Whether through catharsis or biopolitical resistance, art has long intertwined with health. Egon Schiele painted himself, his wife, and their unborn child, before all three succumbed to the Spanish Flu. AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) together with arts collective Gran Fury and Visual AIDS demanded national visibility and political action to fight AIDS, inextricably linking art, activism, and public health.
As we face down another pandemic and confront the myriad health disparities that determine how we live and who will die, this panel of experts and artists will discuss the power of art to bring healing, shed light on the myriad of health disparities hindering equitable health outcomes, and expose what lies behind our collective inability in this moment to heal whole.