Name: Invisible Touch
Location: Wellcome Collection

Dr Apurba Chatterjee is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Reading. She received her PhD in History at the University of Sheffield in 2020 for a thesis on the relationship between visual arts and political legitimacy in the early British Indian Empire. She is broadly interested in the cultural politics of British imperialism, and is currently researching the visual regimes of medicine in late colonial India, with a focus on malaria. 

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Dr Apurba Chatterjee

Speaker

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Researcher talk in the Viewing Room

Exploring Research

The Visual Regime of Medicine in Late Colonial India

Pablo José Ramírez is a curator, writer and cultural theorist living and working between London and Amsterdam. He is the Adjunct Curator of First Nations and Indigenous Art at Tate Modern. His work revisits post-colonial societies to consider race, indigeneity and forms of racial occlusion. His recent curatorial projects include 'Beyond, The Sea Sings: Diasporic Intimacies and Labour' (2021), Times Art Center, Berlin and 'La Medida del Silencio: Lawrence Abu Hamdan', NuMu, Guatemala (2020).

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Pablo José Ramírez

Facilitator

Patricia Domínguez is an artist from Chile. Her work embraces a range of myths and rituals shaped by extractivism and global finance, from the syncretic worship of Our Lady of Cerro Rico, an infamous silver mine in Bolivia where eight million natives died, to the archaeological museum inside Scotiabank in Cusco, built on top of the ruins of an Incan palace. She also runs the experimental ethnobotanical platform ‘StudioVegetalista’. In 2022, Domínguez has a residency at the Delfina Foundation.

Patricia Domínguez

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Jimena Jerez is an anthropologist and author of the best-seller Plantas Mágicas, which explores the cultural context of plants the Valdivian territory in Chile. 

Jimena Jerez

Millaray Huichalaf is a Machi, the spiritual guide and healer of her Mapuche Indigenous Community in southern Chile. Since 2011 she has led the defence of the Pilkamen river which is under threat from the construction of hydroelectric plants and has important cultural, medicinal and spiritual significance for the Mapuche. 

Millaray Huichalaf

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Online event

Matrix Vegetal

Laura Kelly is a senior lecturer in the History of Health and Medicine at the University of Strathclyde. She is a co-director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH) and a member of the Scottish Oral History Centre (SOHC). Laura is an expert on gender history and the social history of medicine in 19th- and 20th-century Ireland. She has recently finished researching a Wellcome-funded project on the history of birth control in 20th-century Ireland.

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Exploring Research: Dr Laura Kelly

Dr Laura Kelly

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Access to Birth Control in Early 20th-century Ireland

BLINK Dance Theatre are an “original, inspiring and fresh” neurodiverse group of artists who perform and facilitate together. They create highly accessible multisensory projects in education and community settings and offer training and employment opportunities for artists. 

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BLINK Dance Theatre

Performer

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BLINK Dance Theatre performing at Wellcome Collection. 2019.

This is a large-scale event with several different activities. Check specific sub-events for their locations.

Throughout our building

Touretteshero

Curator

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Feeling our Way

Feeling Our Way

Reaching Out

Carly B Boxer is the Nancy and Robert J Carney Postdoctoral Fellow in Medieval Art and Architecture at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Boxer is a historian of medieval art whose work centres on the connections between medieval image-making practices and period ideas about vision, knowledge, and the capacity of images to structure and guide thought. Boxer’s current book project analyses manuscripts related to medicine, health and healing made in late-medieval England to propose that images in these books not only taught their readers how to perform surgical procedures or produce medicines, but also trained readers in how the human body ought to look, and how it should be looked at.

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Carly B Boxer

Carly’s website

Shireen Hamza is a PhD candidate in the Department of the History of Science, Harvard, with a secondary field in Critical Media Practice. She is completing a dissertation on Islam and medicine in the medieval Indian Ocean world, and has also published on the history of sexuality. She is also a managing editor of the Ottoman History Podcast.

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Shireen Hamza

Harvard University researcher page

Delphine Sims is a curator, writer, and PhD candidate in the History of Art Department at UC Berkeley. With a focus on the history of photography and Blackness, she has curated and organised public programming for the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Autograph ABP, and SF Camerawork. In addition to exhibition-catalogue contributions, her writing can be found in Matte magazine, The Believer and Aperture. 

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Delphine Sims

Sophie Woolley is a writer and performer from London, working across theatre, radio and TV. In 2019 she set up Augmented Productions, which became an associate company of Told by an Idiot. In 2020 she toured her solo show, Augmented. In 2021 she appeared in Best in Lockdown (An Idiot Film) and Veneer (Film 4/ Mutt & Jeff Pictures). Recent TV-writer credits include ‘EastEnders’ and ‘Casualty’.

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Sophie Woolley

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Julia is a collections research specialist at Wellcome Collection with a background in Art History and Museum Studies. She currently runs the Exploring Research programme, and has a particular interest in the medieval and early modern periods, especially the interaction of medicine, science and art within print culture.

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Julia Nurse

Ross MacFarlane is a research development specialist at Wellcome Collection. He has researched, written and lectured on the collections and other topics at the intersection of death, folklore and medicine.

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Ross MacFarlane

William Schupbach is a research development specialist at Wellcome Collection and author of ‘The Paradox of Rembrandt’s “Anatomy Of Dr Tulp”’.

William Schupbach

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Getting Started with Research at Wellcome Collection

Teresa Hillier obtained her PhD from Swansea University in 2020, examining the formation of parent-advocacy groups established in the mid-20th century that campaigned on behalf of children with cerebral palsy. She is currently researching the wider influences of individuals who made significant contributions to a greater understanding of cerebral palsy. 

Dr Teresa Hillier

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Exploring Research Seminar with Dr Teresa Hillier

Parent Advocacy and Attitudes Towards Cerebral Palsy in the Mid-20th Century

Join us for a quick cup of coffee and a pastry, afternoon tea, or a light meal with a glass of wine.

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Café

Anagram is an award-winning creative studio specialising in thought-provoking interactive storytelling and immersive experience design. With a background in documentary film, animation and interactive game design, the studio specialises in exploiting the most recent advances in immersive technologies to create new narrative spaces.

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Anagram

Anagram website

Collaborator

The Adam Mickiewicz Institute is a national cultural institution. Its mission is to build lasting interest in Polish culture globally. The Institute has held over 8,000 cultural events, seen by nearly 60 million viewers in over 70 countries. It also runs the CULTURE.PL website – a daily updated news service about the most interesting events and phenomena related to Polish culture. 

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Adam Mickiewicz Institute

Adam Mickiewicz Institute website

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You will need to be at St George’s Gardens by the start time of your booking. The chapel in the gardens is the meeting point, and is most easily reached from the Wakefield Street gate. The full address is: St George’s Gardens, Wakefield Street, London WC1H 8HZ.

St George’s Gardens

Messages to a Post-Human Earth

Eduardo Navarro (from Argentina) is a contemporary artist living and working in Buenos Aires. His work focuses on different ways of transforming our senses in order to have a new understanding of the natural world, and ranges from large-scale sculptures to installations and performances that investigate empathy and contemplation. Recent solo exhibitions include MAC Niterói, Rio de Janeiro (2019), The Drawing Centre, New York (2018) and Der TANK, Basel (2017).

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Eduardo Navarro Portrait

Eduardo Navarro

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Creator

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Index of Shapes

Malet Street Gardens, The University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Malet Street Gardens

Sarah Chaney is a research fellow at the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions. She spent her teens and 20s furiously rebelling against the mainstream, while secretly longing to be normal. It wasn’t until she passed 30 that she (mostly) stopped worrying about this mythical ideal. Alongside her research work she runs the public exhibitions and events programme at the Royal College of Nursing, occasionally writes for The Conversation and Psychology Today, and reads far too much X-Men fanfic.

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Sarah Chaney

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Library Insights

We’ll be in the Reading Room on level 2. You can walk up the spiral staircase to the Reading Room door, or take the lift up and then head left from the Library Desk.

Reading Room

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The viewing room at Wellcome Collection

Am I Normal?

Nan Carreira is a non-binary artist working primarily with painting, drawing and participative art, with a special focus on queerness. Nan’s work can be seen as a call to imagine new worlds where traits like vulnerability and self-expression are celebrated instead of being punished and repressed.

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Nan Dorrego Carreira

Nan Carreira

@nan.carreira on Instagram

Tabs is a Visitor Experience Assistant at Wellcome Collection with a background in social anthropology. Tabs is interested in looking at new perspectives and forms of engagement to think about how museums can explore contemporary social issues.

Tabs Deadman

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Medicine Man gallery

We’ll be in the ‘Medicine Man’ gallery. You can find it by taking the stairs or the lift to level 1.

Queering the Collection

Harry Parker is the author of ‘Anatomy of a Soldier’ (2016), translated into eight languages. He grew up in Wiltshire and was educated at Falmouth College of Art and University College London. He joined the British Army when he was 23 and served in Iraq in 2007 and Afghanistan in 2009 as a captain. He is now a writer and artist, and lives in London.

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Harry Parker

David Robson is an award-winning science writer and journalist, specialising in the human brain, body and behaviour.

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David Robson

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Hybrid Humans with Harry Parker

Artist, activist and part-time superhero, Jess Thom co-founded Touretteshero in 2010 as a creative response to her experience of living with Tourette’s syndrome. She has written in the mainstream and disability press, including the Guardian, the Observer and Disability Now, and has been a Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow.

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Jess Thom

Touretteshero’s website

Host

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Invisible Touch, 2022

Invisible Touch

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Rooted Beings

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In the Air exhibition. Cloud Studies, digital film with audio. 2021

In the Air

Installation

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It Teks Time, at OUTPOST, Norwich, 2020

It Teks Time

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Brent social services certificate of registration

The Archive of an Unseen

Permanent exhibition

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Being Human gallery

Being Human

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Medicine Man

Step into a more entangled view of life on earth. Through new commissions, striking artworks and historic artefacts, ‘Rooted Beings’ reimagines our relationship with plants.

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