The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, Pain Adelaide and the Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) present The Art of Pain, an exhibition, keynote lecture and panel discussions about the experience and management of chronic pain. The Art of Pain coincides with National Pain Week, which aims to break the silence and reduce the stigma of living with chronic pain.
The series of events which will open with the launch of The Art of Pain exhibition in the Kerry Packer Civic Gallery on Monday 20 July at 6pm. This exhibition will feature works from 2015 Synapse resident Eugenie Lee, 2014 Synapse recipient Cat Jones and interactive and media artist George Poonkhin Khut. Each of the three artists have created very different, but thematically-aligned works concerned with the experience of pain and its possible management. Cat Jones will be presenting one-on-one performance experiences throughout the 1st week with her interactive installation. Bookings will be open from Monday 13 July and further information and booking details may be found on the Hawke Centre website.
Following the exhibition launch the keynote address will see Professor Michele Sterling in conversation with Professor Lorimer Moseley on Whiplash – current concepts and future directions. Proudly supported by the Motor Accident Commission, and in conjunction with the Art of Pain, this evening lecture will focus on whiplash and low back pain. Professor Sterling is one of the most important experts internationally on neck pain sustained after car accidents. In this lecture, Professor Sterling will provide an overview of the prevention and management of whiplash associated disorders. Her lecture will be followed by a more interactive session in which she and Professor Moseley will discuss some of the more perplexing aspects of neck pain and there will be time for questions from the floor. This will be held on Tuesday 21 July in the Allan Scott Auditorium at 6.00pm.
Two other discussion sessions will follow on Wednesday 22 July from 5.30pm. Morphine and Mindfulness – same room, different windows? with Professor Mark Hutchinson, Dr Tim Semple, Georgie Davidson and Dr George Khut will be facilitated by Professor Lorimer Moseley.
Morphine-type drugs, called opiates, are commonly prescribed for chronic pain, but they tend to make news headlines for the wrong reasons – addiction, tolerance, accidental overdose. Professor Mark Hutchinson is a world authority on the interactions that opioids have with our brain (nervous system) and “other brain” (central immune system). Mark will explain how these drugs can be so helpful but also problematic and how the opioids we make in our very own ‘drug cabinet in the brain’ might be similar to, and different from, those we can take in a pill or injection.
Dr Tim Semple from the RAH will provide a ‘prescriber’s’ perspective. Tim is a Pain Medicine Specialist and Deputy Head of the RAH Pain Unit. Tim will discuss the use of opioids and mindfulness from his perspective running a public hospital pain clinic. Another hot topic at the moment is the therapeutic technique of mindfulness – even the TV star are getting into that. Georgie Davidson is a physiotherapist, yoga teacher and mindfulness practitioner. She blends her diverse and complimentary skill sets to help people in pain. Georgie will discuss the use of mindfulness in the real world, both as part of clinical practice and as a way of life.
The panel will wrap with a presentation of an applied mindfulness tool, BrightHearts, developed by The Art of Pain exhibiting artist George Poonkhin Khut and staff specialist, Dr Angie Morrow from the Children’s Hospital Westmead.
The second discussion session: Playing Tricks With The Mind – Illusion will be held at 7.00pm. Research fellow Dr Valeria Bellan will discuss how the processing of tactile and painful stimuli informs multisensory integration and body representation – and in particular how our understanding of our peripersonal space informs our experience of pain. Valeria will be joined by two of The Art of Pain exhibiting artists, Cat Jones and Eugenie Lee, who have both worked alongside her and other researchers at Body in Mind to test how artistic tools and processes concerned with illusion can contribute to this research.
Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, Pain Adelaide and the Australian Network for Art and Technology
ANAT is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts and by the South Australian Government through Arts SA
Eugenie Lee was assisted by an Amplify Your Art grant administered by Accessible Arts on behalf of the NSW Government
Stay informed, daily
Exhibition: The Art of Pain is FREE at the Kerry Packer Civic Gallery,
Open weekdays 9am -5pm, late Thursdays until 7pm
Launch: Monday 20 July, 6pm RSVP essential
Exhibition is open from Monday 20 – Thursday 30 July
Keynote Address: Whiplash – Current Concepts and Future Directions
With Professor Michele Sterling in conversation with Professor Lorimer Moseley
Tuesday 21 July 2015, 6.00pm – 7.15pm
Allan Scott Auditorium, University of South Australia, City West campus
Public Lecture: Morphine and Mindfulness – same room, different windows?
With Professor Mark Hutchinson, Dr Tim Semple, Georgie Davidson and Dr George Khut – Facilitated by Professor Lorimer Moseley
Wednesday 22 July 2015, 5.30pm – 6.30pm
Bradley Forum, University of South Australia, City West campus
Public Lecture: Playing Tricks With The Mind – Illusion and its affect
With Dr Valeria Bellan, Eugenie Lee and Cat Jones
Wednesday 22 July 2015, 7.00pm – 8.00pm
Bradley Forum, University of South Australia, City West campus
Want to see more stories from InDaily SA in your Google search results?
- Click here to set InDaily SA as a preferred source.
- Tick the box next to "InDaily SA". That's it.
