Art for humans
from Down to a Fine Art Hosted by Izzy and Anna
Following on from an episode way back in 2021, Izzy and Anna decide to revisit the question ‘What is the point of art?’. This time, rather than trying to cover all points of art as they did before, they focus just on one: art’s relationship to mental health. Using Micha Frazer-Carroll’s book ‘Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health’ as a starting point, they explore the role art has to play in looking after our mental wellbeing, be that a folk concert making a bad day better or the way art can allow us to radically rethink our mental health care systems. Also mentioned in this episode: James Leadbitter’s Madlove, Ad Minoliti, Hospital Rooms, Christina Poulton, Kazzum, Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Transform our Health by Daisy Fancourt, @lacdoodles, and Aleksandra Kasuba: Shelters for the Senses at Tate St Ives. Content warnings: discussion of mental health and psychiatric wards throughout. Brief mention of suicide and self-harm at 1hr5mins. Brief mention of vomit at 40mins.
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