Talking Back to Science: Art, science and the personal

A unique written, photographic and DVD journey through the final nine projects funded by the Wellcome Trust's Science on Stage and Screen Programme.

Through text, images and a DVD, 'Talking Back to Science' provides an insight into the work of artists and scientists collaborating to explore biomedical science through performance, film and video.

The artists and their contributors speak with candour, love, sensuality, poetry and intelligence about subjects as diverse as intersex conditions, osteoporosis, visual agnosia, cancer and autism. The scientists speak of the new perspective that artists can bring through their lateral and associative thinking, finding connections that a scientist might have overlooked in favour of the telescopic vision they assume out of necessity.

Edited by Bergit Arends and Verity Slater.

Details

Published by the Wellcome Trust, in paperback with DVD, ISBN: 1841 290 52 1
Published 2004
Price: £5.00

The DVD is available to purchase through Cornerhouse Publications.