ART SCIENCE dialogue feat. Lotte Werkema & Wendy Janssens
On the 12th of February from 4 to 5.30 PM, the VU ART SCIENCE gallery invites you to the first ART SCIENCE dialogue of the exhibition On Limits, In the exhibition and a series of ART SCIENCE dialogues, explores the experience of limitations and the (im)possibilities of breaking through them.
This first ART SCIENCE dialogue will focus on the presentation by artist Lotte Werkema as presented in On Limits. Together with Professor Wendy Janssens and other participants, she will enter into dialogue about the finance and visibility of health, disability and care in broader society.
Lotte Werkema’s work humorously responds to the imperfections of the human body and our normative thinking. In her objects, collages, videos and photographs, she explores new ways of moving in the public domain. She reveals not only her personal obsession with mobility, but also the absurdity of life. Werkema’s designs aids such as orthoses herself and in so doing, creates her own method of moving and being seen. Devices with bright colours, round shapes and confusing functionality provide a new way of looking at aids and how we move.
Wendy Janssens’ research focuses on experimental and micro-econometric evaluations of the impact of development programmes in the areas of global mental health. Among other things she researches health financing and health behaviour, and women’s empowerment and intra-household decision-making – aiming to understand the behavioural foundations underlying those impacts. She is Professor in Development Economics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), Academic Board member of the AIGHD, in the management team of HERA (Health Economics Research Amsterdam) and a research fellow at the Tinbergen Institute. She is also research advisor for PharmAccess International.