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2018 AUTUMN
We are delighted to share that an artwork has just been awarded the National Coordination Centre for Public Engagement NCCPE Images Competition 2018 Award for the category of 'Culture Change’. This was a photo collage composed of photos taken by the outstandingly talented Marco Berardi, of the launch of the tapestry at the Art Workers' Guild in April this year, which several of you took part in. Please see the judges’ comments here in the NCCPE brochure (pp12-14). We are awarded with a voucher for art materials, which we will use to kickstart a regular art-science programme at the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London for people to draw, chat, think and get engaged in a fun and accessible way. We want the sessions to be open to all within and beyond King’s, whether you are a researcher/ arts professional/ psychiatrist/ anyone interested in the myriad ways in which creativity/mental health, art/science can collide and create sparks. The programme will be co-led with Isabella Vainieri, and this will be one of the legacies of #MagicCarpet. If you are keen to join us and/or have any suggestions or thoughts please email us and let us know. Cheers! |
2018 AUTUMN
- 2018 October 23 - December 15: King’s Artists Group Exhibition, Bush House, King’s College London. There is a panel discussion on 12 November led by Dr Sally Marlow. We will also hold an open mic -cum-film session on the evening of 4th December. Come speak in front of the tapestry about your risk-taking experience! BOOK NOW at Eventbrite! See here for further details.
- Also join Kai at the PsychART Conference 23 November. Highlights this year includes presentations by Stephen Fry and Kosetler Trust. Calls open for artwork and papers on how the arts interact with mental health are open. PsychART was founded by Psychiatry trainees in 2015 to highlight and celebrate the positive presence of creativity in this speciality. It aims to explore the role that the arts can play in the lives of those living with mental illness, as well as the rewarding experiences and opportunities available to those working in this field. Kai is an advisor to PsychART, having enjoyed her experience at PsychART 2017 with Professor Asherson as invited speakers.
2018 SUMMER-AUTUMN
- 2018 September 23-26: 24th September: Chair of Art programme; 25th September: roundtable discussion. 5th EUNETHYDIS International European Network for Hyperkinetic Disorders Conference. Edinburgh.
- 2018 October 2018 - 4 March 2019, exhibition. With a public conversation on The Creative Researcher? targeted at interdisciplinary thinkers and early career researchers against the backdrop of anxiety with Brexit, short term contracts and the Research Excellence Framework - over drinks and piano music. Click here for gallery and feedback! Come make drawings at the SGDP and earn a badge!
- 2018 September 5-9: Unlimited Festival, Southbank Centre. Click here for gallery and feedback about #MagicCarpet's successful show. With talk and new performance-lecture with Professor Philip Asherson on 6 September. Look also at the discussion between Kai and Philip facilitated, directed, conceptualised and filmed by curator Alessandra Cianetti in the form of a short film.
- 3 July Lancaster: Art & Mobilities Inaugural Network Conference, Centre for Mobilities Research (CEMORE), Lancaster University. By Kai as a 2017-2018 CEMORE Visiting Fellow with 20 other artists and scholars in mobilities. July 3. By invitation only. Kai will give a Keynote lecture and share the tapestry.
- 8-9 June London: Distraction. Exhibition and intervention. Birkbeck Institutes. Curatorial intervention by Alessandra Cianetti
- 6 June London: King's Undergraduate Medical Education in the Community Teacher Development workshop. King’s College London. *2018: Exhibition, debate. Art Workers Guild, London.
- 31 May Central St Martins Art-Science: Performance with Lois Bentley. MA Art and Science seminar, Central Saint Martins.
- 29 May Guy's Hospital Performance-lecture and film screening. Guy’s Hospital Nursing BSc.
2018 SUMMER
June 4-25: Exhibition and activities as part of the Arts In Mind (Creative Producer: Ruth Garde), various venues, June 4-10. SPEED DATE AT SOUTH LONDON GALLERY + BADGE-MAKING WORKSHOP + TAPESTRY EXHIBITION + LAUNCH OF #MAGICCARPET FILM + LAUNCH OF THE INVISIBLE LOOM ***Proud to collaborate with Studio LW Furniture working with the incredible Emma Leslie to develop an 'Invisible Loom'...
Speed date event at South London Gallery (SLG) on 5 June, 6-8pm: This is a lively evening in which members of the public can interact with experts in the arts and mind from different disciplines: psychiatry: Professor Philip Asherson (Social, Genetic and developmental Psychiatry Centre SGDP); forensic psychology: Professor Gisli Gudjonsson CBE, SGDP); arts: Dr Cecilia Wee (Artsadmin); live art: Dr Daniel Oliver (Queen Mary University of London) and visual art: Dr Kai Syng Tan (SGDP). Through a playful and fun ‘speed dating’ format we will take move around a room and sit down with members of the public to chat with and/or make drawing with members of the public about the restless mind and its speed and intensity; how that relates to the creative process and mental wellbeing, ways of thinking about and understanding different minds and bodies. We envisage a turnout of around 50 people including young people aged 14-21, as the evening is part of the SLG’s youth forum, the Art Assassins who are currently working on their year-long project The Peckham Experiment: A Centre for Self-organisation. Kai will begin the evening by sharing the genesis of the #MagicCarpet. The tapestry will be on display too. We will also screen a new short film made by #MagicCarpet’s Michael Larsson (Sweden) and Philip Tan (Singapore). #MagicCarpet’s Arts Production Manager Alessandra Cianetti will be the ringmaster of the actual speed dating session. The energetic quality of the format enacts some of the intensity and pleasures of ADHD. It is experimental and should be good fun, and a rare opportunity for members of the public to have an informal encounter with these experts.
The evening is part of the inaugural Arts in Mind (AiM) Festival run by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IOPPN) of King’s College London, and #MagicCarpet is one of 25 projects featured. Apart from this speed dating event, #MagicCarpet will be running a badge-making workshop for school children, and there will be a 3-week long exhibition of the tapestry art work at the IOPPN foyer, 5 June-25June. The creative producer of the AiM programme is Ruth Garde, who worked with the Wellcome Trust as curator for 16 years.
Speed date event at South London Gallery (SLG) on 5 June, 6-8pm: This is a lively evening in which members of the public can interact with experts in the arts and mind from different disciplines: psychiatry: Professor Philip Asherson (Social, Genetic and developmental Psychiatry Centre SGDP); forensic psychology: Professor Gisli Gudjonsson CBE, SGDP); arts: Dr Cecilia Wee (Artsadmin); live art: Dr Daniel Oliver (Queen Mary University of London) and visual art: Dr Kai Syng Tan (SGDP). Through a playful and fun ‘speed dating’ format we will take move around a room and sit down with members of the public to chat with and/or make drawing with members of the public about the restless mind and its speed and intensity; how that relates to the creative process and mental wellbeing, ways of thinking about and understanding different minds and bodies. We envisage a turnout of around 50 people including young people aged 14-21, as the evening is part of the SLG’s youth forum, the Art Assassins who are currently working on their year-long project The Peckham Experiment: A Centre for Self-organisation. Kai will begin the evening by sharing the genesis of the #MagicCarpet. The tapestry will be on display too. We will also screen a new short film made by #MagicCarpet’s Michael Larsson (Sweden) and Philip Tan (Singapore). #MagicCarpet’s Arts Production Manager Alessandra Cianetti will be the ringmaster of the actual speed dating session. The energetic quality of the format enacts some of the intensity and pleasures of ADHD. It is experimental and should be good fun, and a rare opportunity for members of the public to have an informal encounter with these experts.
The evening is part of the inaugural Arts in Mind (AiM) Festival run by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IOPPN) of King’s College London, and #MagicCarpet is one of 25 projects featured. Apart from this speed dating event, #MagicCarpet will be running a badge-making workshop for school children, and there will be a 3-week long exhibition of the tapestry art work at the IOPPN foyer, 5 June-25June. The creative producer of the AiM programme is Ruth Garde, who worked with the Wellcome Trust as curator for 16 years.
May 2: The Future of People Powered Health, NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts), The Brewery, EC1. We will sit on the mat with attendees who include health workers and policy makers, to have a chat and make maps and discuss power, empowerment and agency in health. Kai will be there 0900-1400, and is joined by arts professional Alessandra Cianetti and Registered Mental Health Nurse Peter Reid. Get your tickets here. See full programme here. --> This is a past event which was effectively the first time that the carpet was activated! Please click here for photos of how it went.
Art, ADHD, Neurodiversity & Giant Octopussies: #MagicCarpet Launch
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 18:30 – 21:00. The Art Workers' Guild. 6 Queen Square London WC1N 3AT BOOK YOUR FREE TICKETS NOW --> This is a past event which was great fun. Click here for photos, videos, feedback and transcription.
What happens when visual art runs into and runs riot with ADHD? What are the fireworks and frictions that arise? What do they say about how we perceive others who are different and who think differently? What are the possibilities and limitations of a term like ‘neurodiverse art’? What is the role of mind wandering in ADHD and the creative process? What other magic carpets could we make? Where do we want them to take us? Join artist Dr Kai Syng Tan and Professor of Psychiatry Philip Asherson (both at Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings’ College London) for the launch of I Run and Run, Let Out An Earth-Shattering Roar and Turn Into A Giant Octopussy (2017). Part of a 1.5 year project #MagicCarpet, this is a new tapestry artwork arising from an ongoing dialogue between Kai and Philip on mind wandering and how that relates to the creative process and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Through a series of provocations and a discussion, the evening explores the creative process, how it relates to our different brains, and the possibilities and limitations of neurodiversity and ‘neurodiverse art’. The intention is to open up a space for creative collisions and productive antagonisms about the arts-health-society and body-brain-mind-world dynamics, which the hosting venue itself – the iconic Art Workers’ Guild situated amidst research facilities for neuroscience – powerfully plays out. Instead of answers and conclusions, expect to be provoked, amused and bemused and to leave with new questions. Triggering the conversation alongside Kai and Philip are Prue Cooper (pictured left with Production Manager Alessandra Cianetti) and Fleur Oakes (The Art Workers’ Guild), Professor Andrew Stahl (UCL Slade School of Fine Art), Jo Verrent (Unlimited) and Ben Platts-Mills (Headway East London). There will also be live demonstrations by Fleur Oakes, Rachael Matthews, and Paul Jakeman of the Guild. Come ride the #MagicCarpet. Let’s see how far we can go together. The venue is wheelchair accessible. A BSL interpreter will be available on the evening. There is also a quiet room. Please contact us at [email protected] to let us know about your access requirements and we will be happy to help. This event is organised in collaboration with The Art Workers’ Guild.
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 18:30 – 21:00. The Art Workers' Guild. 6 Queen Square London WC1N 3AT BOOK YOUR FREE TICKETS NOW --> This is a past event which was great fun. Click here for photos, videos, feedback and transcription.
What happens when visual art runs into and runs riot with ADHD? What are the fireworks and frictions that arise? What do they say about how we perceive others who are different and who think differently? What are the possibilities and limitations of a term like ‘neurodiverse art’? What is the role of mind wandering in ADHD and the creative process? What other magic carpets could we make? Where do we want them to take us? Join artist Dr Kai Syng Tan and Professor of Psychiatry Philip Asherson (both at Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings’ College London) for the launch of I Run and Run, Let Out An Earth-Shattering Roar and Turn Into A Giant Octopussy (2017). Part of a 1.5 year project #MagicCarpet, this is a new tapestry artwork arising from an ongoing dialogue between Kai and Philip on mind wandering and how that relates to the creative process and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Through a series of provocations and a discussion, the evening explores the creative process, how it relates to our different brains, and the possibilities and limitations of neurodiversity and ‘neurodiverse art’. The intention is to open up a space for creative collisions and productive antagonisms about the arts-health-society and body-brain-mind-world dynamics, which the hosting venue itself – the iconic Art Workers’ Guild situated amidst research facilities for neuroscience – powerfully plays out. Instead of answers and conclusions, expect to be provoked, amused and bemused and to leave with new questions. Triggering the conversation alongside Kai and Philip are Prue Cooper (pictured left with Production Manager Alessandra Cianetti) and Fleur Oakes (The Art Workers’ Guild), Professor Andrew Stahl (UCL Slade School of Fine Art), Jo Verrent (Unlimited) and Ben Platts-Mills (Headway East London). There will also be live demonstrations by Fleur Oakes, Rachael Matthews, and Paul Jakeman of the Guild. Come ride the #MagicCarpet. Let’s see how far we can go together. The venue is wheelchair accessible. A BSL interpreter will be available on the evening. There is also a quiet room. Please contact us at [email protected] to let us know about your access requirements and we will be happy to help. This event is organised in collaboration with The Art Workers’ Guild.
Be There At The Start Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester University 23 March 2018
Tickets sold out. Kai and Production Manager Alessandra Cianetti will take part in a panel discussion on cross-sectoral collaboration. As part of the presentation, they will play a video interview conceptualised, interviewed and filmed by Alessandra, of Kai and Philip of their collaboration. Third Museums for Health and Wellbeing Conference. 2018 March 14. Thinktank, Birmingham. Kai gave a 5 minute presentation of her new proposal Ill-Disciplined that was well received. |
Centre Presentation by Philip and Kai
18 January 2018, 10:00-11:00hrs, Room A-B, SGDP, London SE5 8AF Professor Philip Asherson shares updates of his ADHD research with impending @NICEcomms guidelines + about his recent NIHR Senior Investigator Award, while Kai presents an outline of a reimagination of ADHD as creative method, and shares updates on #Magiccarpet. See synopsis on left. If you are keen to attend but are not a staff/student of Kings College London, please email Kai [email protected] so that she can arrange to sign you in on that day. |
2017 AUTUMN
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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies Talking Points
When: 5 December 2017 18:00-20:00 Free eventbrite tickets: bit.ly/2yLTreB Programme and synopsis: http://bit.ly/2zJ2PNr Venue: Institute of Advanced Studies Common Ground, South Wing. UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT As Visiting Fellow at the UCL IAS, Kai will give a talk at the Institute of Advance Studies University College London. Chair: UCL Institute of Advanced Studies Deputy Director, Professor Megan Vaughan. Respondents: Dr Vivienne Lo (Senior Lecturer, Department of History and Convenor, UCL China Centre for Health and Humanity) and Dr Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed (Wellcome ISSF Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London). See Mohammed's full response here. Title: The ill-disciplined visual artist-researcher as connector, disruptor and running messenger in visual art and mental health approaches? Towards a conceptual framework drawing on ADHD to engineer ‘productive antagonisms’. A short film filmed and edited by IAS' Albert Brenchat Aguilar can be seen on the left. |
Professor Philip Asherson and Dr Kai Syng Tan at PsychArt 2017 Date: 03 November 2017 Friday Venue: ORTUS learning and events Centre, 82-96 Grove Lane, Camberwell London SE5 8SN Tickets: £15-£30 (bursary applicable). See details on Eventbrite, Website Facebook: psychart2017 Twitter: PsychART17. PsychART is a national conference, supported by Royal College of Psychiatrists, that celebrates creativity, the arts and psychiatry. The conference provides an opportunity for attendees to hear about and take part in the exciting links between the worlds of mental health and the arts. Philip and Kai's session is scheduled for 10:00-10:30am. |
Kai was also invited to be on the panel for the debate at the closing session for the day.. The motion was: "The arts in mental health are a luxury". Chair: Dr Stephen Ginn (Art of Psychiatry blog and Consultant Psychiatrist). Panel: For the motion: Dr Paul Gilluley - Head of Forensics at the East London NHS Foundation Trust, and Kai. Against the motion: Emmanuel Owusu - service user with architecture background and Dr Catherine Carr - music therapist and researcher. Kai presented her case citing Martin Creed, cave men and women who painted on walls - all doused in irony. Unsurprisingly, Paul and Kai did not last and broke out of character soon after. Kai's concluding remarks drew from Bob and Roberta Smith to say that the arts are a fundamental human right, and that the people gathered in the room were the converted. The challenge is to get the unconverted join the table, in the same room.
Mind Wandering: worst enemy or best friend? Interdisciplinary chat + drinks + open studio + participation
*SEE DOCUMENTATION OF THE EVENING HERE
Date: 24 October 2017 Time: 18:30-20:30
Venue: MRC Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP, foyer and Rooms A-B), King's College London, 16 De Crespigny Road, London SE5 8AF
Limited free eventbrite tickets. BOOK NOW!
A lively evening of perspectives on mind wandering from the arts and sciences over drinks, and display of work in progress.
WHOM WITH: Artist-researcher Dr Kai Syng Tan (Artist-in-Residence and Visiting Researcher, MRC Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry) - chair | Professor of Molecular Psychiatry Professor Philip Asherson (MRC SGDP) | PhD researcher Natali Bozhilova (MRC SGDP) | Dr Laura Malacart (Visual Artist and Researcher, Visiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL) | Dr David Grant (Educational Psychologist) | Professor Helen Chatterjee MBE (Founder and Co-Director National Alliance for Museums, Health and Wellbeing, University College London - respondent). Click here for details and book last remaining tickets.
*SEE DOCUMENTATION OF THE EVENING HERE
Date: 24 October 2017 Time: 18:30-20:30
Venue: MRC Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP, foyer and Rooms A-B), King's College London, 16 De Crespigny Road, London SE5 8AF
Limited free eventbrite tickets. BOOK NOW!
A lively evening of perspectives on mind wandering from the arts and sciences over drinks, and display of work in progress.
WHOM WITH: Artist-researcher Dr Kai Syng Tan (Artist-in-Residence and Visiting Researcher, MRC Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry) - chair | Professor of Molecular Psychiatry Professor Philip Asherson (MRC SGDP) | PhD researcher Natali Bozhilova (MRC SGDP) | Dr Laura Malacart (Visual Artist and Researcher, Visiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL) | Dr David Grant (Educational Psychologist) | Professor Helen Chatterjee MBE (Founder and Co-Director National Alliance for Museums, Health and Wellbeing, University College London - respondent). Click here for details and book last remaining tickets.
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Launch of King's Artists scheme
*By invitation only* Date: 5 October 2017 Venue: Bush House, King's College London Dr Kai Syng Tan is one of 6 artists selected for the new King's Artists scheme. During the launch, Professor Philip Asherson and Kai gave a presentation about the aims and scope of #MagicCarpet. |
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UK Adult ADHD Network Annual Congress (UKAAN)
Date: 21-23 September Friday 2017 Venue: Mermaid Conference & Events Centre, London. This is an annual conference for leading researchers and clinicians on ADHD. This year's congress welcomed 250 clinicians and health professionals. It was particularly pertinent as it addresses ADHD in the Mainstream. As Professor Asherson, UKAAN President, states, UKAAN's vision 'is to bring ADHD into the mainstream, so that all mental health professionals have the knowledge and understanding to diagnose and treat ADHD, in the same way as other common mental health disorders'. On Thursday 21 September, Kai introduced comedian Rory Bremner and actor Sarah Emmott on stage. She also had a stall, at which she presented an early version of a work that is in the Wellcome Images library, which conceptualises a service animal in the form of a cat that users can wear (thus a wearable tech in the form of a catsuit). The work is hence nicknamed (Dys)service Cat(suit). |
In addition Kai invited the delegates to make drawings to visualise their mind wandering, for which they were awarded monster-sized badges (which comes in 5 designs), effectively making them 'badge-wearing' mind wanderers. Participants included UKAAN delegates, including Professors Anne Speckens (Netherlands) and Edmund Sonuga-Barke (Belgium), and Andrea Bilbow OBE of Addiss. 18 drawings and 6 sets of words were collected. The words were: Fluff, Cotton wool, Fog, Nostalgia, Je ne regret rien, Hyper planning, Go to pan D, Distracted, Moving, Changing, Daydreaming, World of your own, Yellow, Quiet, Escape, Other world, Wonder and Daydreaming
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Hidden Project Conversations Day
Date: 5 July 2017 Wednesday Time: 10:30 - 16:00 Venue: Brighton Dome, Church Street, Brighton, BN1 1UE Kai was an invited speaker at the Hidden Project Conversations Day, which was a day about the Arts and invisible illness presented by Root Experience. Kai talked about how #MagicCarpet project was born, how she ‘come out’ as a disabled artist after being a practitioner for seevral years and the obstacles she has encountered in the art world. She also met new friends and colleagues who made drawings for #MagicCarpet. The day addressed: 'How can the Arts support artists with invisible illnesses, make work that reflects people’s experience of the world and change perceptions surrounding invisible illness?' It aimed to work out ways to 'advance work being done, to make the arts a leader for accepting hidden conditions as the mainstream and to support innovative ways of working.' How can we continue to support artists to make work, interact with audiences, break down barriers and change perceptions? |
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MRC Festival Preview Event
Date: 16 June Friday | Time: 10:00-16:00 Venue: MRC Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre (SGDP), London The MRC Festival held at King's College London's SGDP was part of the Medical Research Council's second annual MRC Festival of Medical Research, which took place 17–25 June 2017 in England, Scotland and Wales, online and in Africa. Kai shared a poster on her past work with a focus on wellbeing, and invited SGDP visitors to make drawings of their mind wandering, who were awarded with badges. 5 drawings created by visitors aged 7-30 were collected. The SGDP event was a lively day. Visitors discovered how our genes make us unique, met SGDP scientists, and learnt about how they work and the latest research in genetics, and even extract DNA from strawberries. |
Background image by Kai Syng Tan 2017