Inter- and Trans-disciplinarity have recently become distinguishing elements of contemporary art. When borders between disciplines blend together and are erased very often results are enriching for both disciplines and result in work neither could have predicted. A particular example of a collaboration between practitioners with different specialisms will be the focus of this talk. The artist Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva and the scientist Prof. Alastair Forbes will talk about their work together, with moderation by Ana Frangovska.
Duration: 2 hours
Participant biographies
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva (born 1971, Kavadarci, North Macedonia) is a Macedonian-born artist based in Brighton, UK. She has exhibited extensively and realised numerous commissions nationally and internationally, in gallery spaces, museums and within the public realm. Hadzi-Vasileva was selected by the Ministry of Culture to represent Macedonia at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, with Ana Frangovska, curator at the National Gallery of Macedonia. She graduated in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London, in 1998.
Alastair Forbes is Professor of Medicine and Director of Clinical Research in Norwich Medical School at the University of East Anglia, UK. He holds a parallel consultant appointment with Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, and is Director of the Quadram Institute Clinical Research Facility and Chairman of the UEA Research Ethics Committee. He works mainly on intestinal failure and nutrition in inflammatory bowel disease, but has also had a career-long interest in the medical aspects of eating disorders.
Moderator: Ana Frangovska
A creative and dynamic arts professional with twenty years of curatorial, educational and research experience in contemporary Visual Arts. She has worked as a senior curator at the Macedonian National Gallery for the past fifteen years. Frangovska is a PhD candidate of Transdisciplinary studies in Contemporary Arts and Media at the Faculty of Arts and Media in Belgrade.