NOTE THAT THE LAUNCH IS NOW STARTING AT 6.15PM IN THE RSSS AUDITORIUM

There is growing clinical and public awareness of the impact the common condition of endometriosis can have on the lives of sufferers. Women have long faced significant challenges in communicating the experience and reality of the condition to scientists, therapists and clinicians as well as within their everyday networks.

This exhibition explores communicating endometriosis through different forms of expression and response, including visual arts, music, dance, language and lab science. In this dialogue, we learn more about our bodies, emotions, embodied experiences, and their various understandable signs, fingerprints, or developed artistic expression.

The exhibition will run until 30 October 2023, in the RSSS building Foyer.

Curated by Susanne Ilschner (ANU School of Medicine and Psychology) and organised in collaboration with John Pratt, Christine Phillips (ANU School of Medicine and Psychology) and Fiona Jenkins (ANU Gender Institute)

Call for Expressions of interest in engaging with the exhibition

The exhibition presents major opportunities for teaching and learning, as well as public discussion. We would like to open up this exhibition to other groups and individuals who are interested in interacting with it and invite you to extend the conversation e.g. in the form of workshops, forum discussions or performance, or perhaps as a contribution to the opening event. Please contact admin.genderinstitute@anu.edu.au with a short description of your proposal.

Please register for the launch here

This exhibition has been funded by the ANU Gender Institute, with ArtsACT,  the Embassy of France in Canberra, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Canberra, and the ANU School of Medicine and Psychology. We are also grateful for the participation of the ANU School of Music.