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Palais de Tokyo, Paris
The event initiated by Institut ACTE - Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and National Academy of Arts of Ukraine.The Aleksandr Savchuk Foundation is a partner of the Palais de Tokyo under the umbrella of the Art & Society Circle.
Past project
On the 4th of May, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, hosted an interdisciplinary conference “In the Face of Natural Disasters, War, and Pandemics: What is the Therapeutic Potential of Art?”.
The conference aimed to explore the new therapeutic functions of a work of art and the impact it can have in times of great challenges. The event fostered cross-disciplinary research involving art, aesthetics, sociology, art history, medicine, and neuroscience. Experts from various fields and speakers from leading global institutions explored how the contemplation of aesthetic objects affects the human body and improves mental health and well-being.
The event was organized in the format of three panels: "How Can Art Fix the World?", "Art and War", "Art and Care", followed by a joint discussion. The conference will close with the video-performative section "Femmes Guerrières" of the Milky Way project. Discussions were important considering the initiative of the National Academy of Arts in running the project "Rehabilitation: Art Therapy" project, supported by The Aleksandr Savchuk Foundation and Art Support Fund.
Program
14:00 Accreditation
14:15 Well-being Together Through ArtIntroduction by Yoann Gourmel (Palais de Tokyo) and Olga Kisseleva (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne).
14:30 How Can Art Fix the World?Laurence Raineau (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), socio-anthropologist.Marie-Laure Desjardins (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and ArtsHebdoMedias), art scientist, art critic and exhibition curator.Yana Barinova, project manager on European policies and Ukrainian relations, Erste Foundation, Austria.Moderator: Olga Kisseleva (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), artist-researcher.
15:30 Art & War Victor Sydorenko (National Academy of Arts of Ukraine).Natalia Shpytkovska (Art Support Fund, M17 Contemporary Art Center), "Concentration of the Will: artists for freedom" and "Rehabilitation. Art-therapy under the war" programs.Christelle Abou Jawdeh (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), therapeutic orientation workshops at the transcultural psychiatric service of Vivantes Hospital, Berlin.Nata Katerynenko (NGO "Art Initiative Temporary Unity of Values"), responsible for the "Mytets. Rehabilitation space" project, an artistic and psychotherapeutic rehabilitation program for veterans of the ATO zone and former prisoners of the so-called of DPR/LPR.Yulia Medynska (Institute of Psychoanalysis for Mental Health in Lviv), psychotherapist- psychoanalyst.Moderator: Alla Chernetska (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), art scientist and writer.
16:45 Coffee break
17:15Art & CareOleksandra Khalepa, architect, art researcher, founder of Carbon Art Residency, curator “When war will end?” project, résident de la Villa Arson.Sophie Bloud (Foundation for the Health of French Students), teacher, specialist in care- studies. Svetlana Meteleva (Savchuk Foundation), psychologist.Moderator: Taisiya Polishchuk (Aleksandr Savchuk Foundation), art therapy projects.
18:30Screening of Art-Care performance videosScreening of Art-Care performance videos featuring Victoria Ananyan, Virginie Baroux, Catherine Braslawsky, Tatiana Drozd, Olga Kisseleva, Taisiya Polishchuk, Chiara Taviani, and Simone Tribuna.
19:00Closing drink
Speakers
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Photos from the conference