A Day-Long Gathering on Art and Healing
Organized by Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey and P! Krishnamurthy / Department of Transformation
Amid the fractures and uncertainties of the present moment, how can arts and cultural institutions be reframed as sites of care and healing? What creative tools from artistic practice can inform therapeutic and medical fields? How can the metaphor of the museum as a hospital illuminate both systemic challenges and structural opportunities?
Posing such questions and others, KADIST Paris hosts Museum as Hospital?, a day-long gathering that explores the intersection of art, healing, and institutional transformation. This experimental event marks the conclusion of a week-long residency at the Terra Foundation’s outpost in Giverny, France, organized by Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey and P! Krishnamurthy of Department of Transformation. The residency brings together a diverse group of artists, curators, medical professionals, entrepreneurs, and cultural workers—including Ana Paula Cohen, Angie Keefer, Bhargav Sriprakash, Cassie Thornton, Eenasul Fateh, Francesco Manacorda, George Bermudez, Joy Silverman, Lotta Petronella, and Rahul Gudipudi—to collectively investigate how artistic and cultural institutions can serve as sites of care, repair, and transformation.
The Paris convening at KADIST builds upon the intensive discussions from the preceding week. Extending the group’s conversations into a broader public framework, the event at KADIST invites a broader audience to explore emerging ideas, strategies, and methodologies.
Through a playful format that integrates conversations, presentations, artist activations, and participatory moments, the event seeks to prototype new strategies, methods, and tools for integrating artistic and therapeutic practices. It serves as a critical juncture in the project’s evolving research process, bridging intimate, small-group knowledge exchanges with larger, public-facing engagements.
