Artist Emilio Fantin and anthroposophic Doctor Cinzia di Meglio will host a conversation with Doctor Rossana Becarelli, and Josefina Guzman and Pedro Reygadas, from Centro de Investigacions and Studios Transmodernos, to continue our investigation around healing issues and practices, from different prospectives.

 

We have seen the Covid 19 pandemia being used to reinforce the pharma industry and all its apparatus, and witnessed how health issues have been instrumentalized, becoming conductive of more control over our bodies and our minds (See strategies for mandatory flu vaccination in Italy and other countries, for developing new synthetic medicaments rather than “traditional” ones and alternative therapies, and the lack of a preventive campaign for developing immunity system).The conventional medicine approach is more and more based on statistical and technological medical protocols which excludes a deep relationship between healer and patient, reducing human beings to abstract entities.

 

Emilio compiled a text to archive various news and articles that have been circulating, to show how language and the system of contemporary communication through mainstream media and social media, have a tremendous impact on our lives, producing fear and a feeling of vulnerability, a desire to be governed, altering our notions of being alive, having a good life and being able to heal.

Please, read and respond to the text and feel free to contact Emilio if you wish to actively participate in this next conversation. Everyone is welcome! If you are a conventional doctor or a non conventional healer, a philosopher of science or interested in communication, please feel free to propose topic to enrich this discussion, send along useful texts from your context, or that you have found interesting on this matter, or just participate into the call!

 

 

 

 

about our guests

 

Rossana Becarelli, MD, PhD. Medical doctor, philosopher of science, anthropologist. Degree in medicine at the University of Turin (Italy), degree in Philosophy of science at Sorbonne university in Paris,

PhD in Anthropology at Ecole des Hautes etudes, Paris. Rossana has developped cancer research programs at Columbia university, NYC and has been Medical Director in many hospitals in Piedmont region;

visiting professor at University of Geneva, University of Lugano (CH), Politecnico in Turin. Currently she is involved in some EU projects between Switzerland and Italy aiming to empower people’s health hrough arts and culture.

Since 2009 she is president of Euromediterranean Network for Medical Humanities, and since 2013 Ambassador of Third Paradise , the project of artist Michelangelo Pistoletto’s foundation.

 

Vincenza Di Meglio graduated in medicine and surgery in 1983 in Bologna (Italy) with an anthropological thesis. She has been developing studies in analytical psychology, medical anthropology and homeopathy. Member of SIMA (Italian Society of Anthroposophical Medicine) she practices her medical profession in the context of general medicine aimed at the development of the child and the care of the adult. She is the doctor of the Waldorf School in Bologna where the Steinerian pedagogical method, diffused all over the world, is applied. She teaches by taking care of medical-pedagogical aspects at the Stella Maris School of Color Art Therapy.

 

Emilio Fantin is an italian artist interested in creating the conditions for a dialectic interaction among different types of knowledge. He generates spaces and situations in which he invites people to share a space of connection, not tight to material geographies, rather an area of intense and dynamic exchange, experimenting in what he calls “the aesthetic of the non perceivable”. He is currently focusing on a personal research into “presences, territories and spaces of the invisible” though inner encounters, and an architecture of the invisible. He is co-founder of Lac O Le Mon Foundation for Artistic research.

 

PhD Josefina Guzmán Díaz & PhD Pedro Reygadas Robles Gil are responsible of the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Transmodernos (Mexico), where they promote the buen vivir (good living) for all living Beings. Their work is critical of notions of human rights and development, and they connect healing practices and teaching as part of a constant dialogue. They consider their work as community service, in which they find themeselves permanently learning and contributing to an ever expanding social web.