CDAN. Contemporary art at hospital

Abstract

The aim of the CDAN is to bring the contemporary art over to all the groups; nevertheless there is a group that difficultly finds his hollow in the art: people who are hospitalized. Our work at CDAN takes the challenge of bringing the contents of the Centre over people admitted in a health centre. This project arises from a research project close to three other centres of art, which led us to know the French program Culture à l’hôpital that seeks to turn the hospital into a more human and opened place. Once this project was studied came up the possibility of transferring something similar to each centre and its different realities. Thus, we started a theoretical investigation process about the hospitals’ realities; meantime, in practice, we designed a workshop with the Psico-social Rehabilitation Centre in Huesca and the local artist Vicky Méndiz. The participants were people with mental disorders. The aim of the workshop was teach the language and the technique of the photography and through this try to reflect about their own perception of the body image.