In this panel organized in collaboration with the Kunsthaus Zurich Zeit/Time exhibition, we aim to discuss our complicated relationship with time by presenting a range of disparate positions across the arts, humanities and sciences.

Can art capture time? If art allows us to explore the past and capture the future, can it put the present back into a historical dynamic? How can art capture both human finitude and the larger planetary conditions of the unfolding environmental crisis?

The experience of illness makes the familiar turn unfamiliar. Uncertainty surrounds medical decision-making as patients struggle with complex healthcare systems and obscure language.

En collaboration avec Ciné-Calanques, la Fondation Camargo, et la Maison de Gardanne, Assisted Lab a organisé un petit festival de films sur la fin de vie. Trois projections ont été suivies de discussions avec les réalisateurs et, dans le cas d’Une maison au bord du monde de Pascal Cesaro, avec les intervenants en soins palliatifs présents dans le documentaire.

How do those deciding for an assisted death weave the normative arguments informing their choices and cultural, historical and personal factors contributing to them, into the story of their decision?

Was wissen wir vom Sterben? Wie hat sich unser Bild davon verändert? Können die Naturwissenschaften den Tod erklären? Was leistet die Kunst?

Artist in residence collaborations are coming soon to Assisted Lab! Watch this space for more information