Installation
Designing Public Installations
Making Technical and Moral Codes of Medical Care and Technologies Public Through Modelling In and With Public
In the fall of 2021, we mounted a public installation -- Moral Horizons of Pain at Canmore artsPlace. Audience members traveled through several participatory spaces where they interacted with our team (as performer-facilitators) to consider two views of medical care. The first view was technical, in which peoples’ bodies and experiences of pain are measured and categorized. The second view was moral and embodied, in which peoples’ stories, emotions and expressions of pain are centered. This interactive participatory theatrical installation immerses the audience in the dramatically different nature of both perspectives.
Preview of Moral Horizons of Pain Installation
A preview video of the public installation that took place in Canmore, Canada (October 2021) and upcoming installation at University of Calgary in March 2024.
Moral Horizons of Pain
Pratim Sengupta, Ariel Ducey, Martina Ann Kelly, Santanu Dutta & Erin Knox
Canadian Theatre Review, Summer 2023/ forthcoming
Moral Horizons of Pain: Participatory Theatre and Public engagement with Data and Technology in Medicine
Ariel Ducey, Pratim Sengupta, Martina Kelly, Santanu Dutta & Erin Knox
In November 2022, we gave an invited talk describing the the "Moral Horizons of Pain" event for the University of Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society.
The complete talk can be viewed here: https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_bk9q89ja
Moral Horizons of Pain | The International Merleau-Ponty Circle
To commemorate 75 years of publication of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception, we were invited by The International Merleau-Ponty Circle to offer reflections of our work. The film Moral Horizons of Pain offers a critical phenomenological re-orientation of medical diagnosis and caring for pain. Drawing upon Merleau-Ponty's notions of first and second order perceptions and Ahmed's notion of orientations, the team of interdisciplinary scholars in sociology, learning sciences and medicine reveal hidden moral undertones underpinning technoscientific practices in medicine.
Film by Santanu Dutta, Ariel Ducey, Martina Kelly, Pratim Sengupta (Canada), 2022.
9:24 min, colour, sound, English.
Sensing Someone Else's Pain: Ethical Historical Traces of Disciplined Interactions in Medical Care
Santanu Dutta, Pratim Sengupta & Ariel Ducey
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2022, Hiroshima, Japan.
This paper highlights the ethical and moral dimensions of relational work and dignity in technoscientific spaces which are elusive in normative disciplinary practices. Using the lenses of ethical perceptions and embodied actions, we locate how microinteractions within physicianpatient interactions during pain diagnosis and care are intertwined with interpersonal dignity, racialized emotions and historicized violence on Indigenous people. We discuss the implications of our work in light of dismantling normative views of disciplinary authenticity that underlie technoscience education.
Flocking with Pain
Megha Sanyal
Research Assistant Megha Sanyal is developing an interactive computational model that demonstrates the ways in which the experience of pain interacts with the disciplinary categories and treatment pathways of pain medicine.