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We are launching a post-COVID iteration of the exhibition at the McMaster Museum of Art in September 2021.

Stay tuned for details on public programming addressing vaccination in an age of COVID, as well as artist and curator talks!
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IMAGINATIONS 11-2
<Immune Nations> Research-Creation
at the Intersection of Vaccine Science
​and Global Health Policy


​August 31, 2020


Guest Editor: Natalie Loveless
Editor-in-Chief: Markus Reisenleitner
Managing Editor: Brent Ryan Bellamy
English Substantive and Copy Editor: Lee Campbell
French Translator and Editor: Dominique Laurent
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Over the last several years, questions related to the safety, effectiveness and proper use of vaccines have generated an extremely heated and polarized international public debate. In turn, this has stimulated discourse around a number of broader ethical issues related to international health care delivery such as access to health care, as well as balancing personal/cultural freedom and public health. The forces behind the polarized vaccine debate are complex, involving many players including the media, funding agencies, corporations and the scientific/academic community itself (and made more complex by the influx of fraudulent information about vaccine safety). All of this complexity generates anxiety that hinders society’s ability to have a reasoned, rational and respectful discussion around vaccines. Art/creative research has the potential to play an important role in helping to foster a more nuanced discourse around vaccines by articulating elusive or emotionally charged issues in ways that other forms of communication often cannot.

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PARTICIPANTS
Jesper Alvaer
Julia Belluz
Sean Caulfield
Tim Caulfield
Patrick Fafard
Caitlin Fisher
Steven Hoffman
Johan Holst
Annemarie Hou
Alison Humphrey
Kaisu Koski
Vicki S. Kwon
Natalie S. Loveless
Patrick Mahon
Lathika Sritharan
Mkrtich Tonoyan
​Rachelle Viader Knowles

Banner image:
Kaisu Koski, Injection Simulator (2015).
www.kaisukoski.com



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