Cholera & pandemics on a remote island - a national heritage project linking art with medicine

Taubert, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0454-5609, Davidson, Glenn, Fedeski, Michael and Freedman, Andrew 2024. Cholera & pandemics on a remote island - a national heritage project linking art with medicine. Presented at: The 13th World Research Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care, Barcelona, Spain, 16 – 18 May 2024. EAPC Abstracts. , vol.38 (S1) Palliative Medicine: SAGE, p. 101. 10.1177/02692163241242338

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Abstract

Background/aims: A UK National Heritage Lottery funded video and audio podcast project about pandemics, palliative care & isolation, was recorded on a remote Welsh island with a derelict cholera hospital. The project made use of a modern day palliative care ward round audio recording. This was done to combine the arts and science in a unique way. The authors were engaged by Cardiff Bay Authority (UK) to interpret heritage locations on the Welsh island of Flat Holm, producing a modern artistic & scientific interpretation. The Covid-19 pandemic halted the project initially, but once it restarted, gained a renewed focus around the theme of isolation. Methods: A trip was organised to the uninhabited island of Flat Holm in 2022. Amongst the site of historic interests on Flat Holm are the craggy ruins of a cholera hospital, in use from 1883 to 1935. Here, filming & binaural audio recording took place to create an interactive environment, including using voices from a cancer centre palliative care ward round. We recorded spatial soundscapes at a cancer hospital in Cardiff, UK – following Prof Mark Taubert, a palliative care consultant, on his ward rounds. He was recorded binaurally, putting on Covid-19 protective equipment and engaging with staff & patients with all the assembled background sounds of a visitor-closed hospital ward Results: The recordings contain a startling immersive quality, bringing the reality of a pandemic hospital to the listener. These recordings were then used as a soundtrack to a digital drone film, circumnavigating the cholera hospital ruins, just as if the sound were coming from the cholera hospital itself. Furthermore, Dr Andrew Freedman, Reader in Infectious Diseases, and Prof Taubert were recorded adjacent to the cholera hospital, discussing pandemic experiences, isolation, historic outbreaks & relevance to today’s challenges. Conclusions: For the purpose of this abstract presentation, we will show the cholera hospital film and reflect about similarities and differences between COVID-19 and Cholera, and inform about the artistic outputs that were produced on Flat Holm.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Poster)
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Publisher:	SAGE
Date of Acceptance:	February 2024
Last Modified:	14 Jun 2024 15:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/169043

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