Dealing In The Reality is a panel talk exploring Other People’s Practices (OPP), an artist residency and research programme with the National Forensic Mental Health Service. This online talk was recorded as part of Check Up Check In 2020, an initiative of artsandhealth.ie / Waterford Healing Arts Trust, in partnership with Create and Fingal County Council Arts Office. The talk was chaired by Dr Sheelagh Broderick and features OPP’s Director and Curator John Conway, Nurse Manager Ann Dunmurray, and Fingal County Council’s Public Art Co-ordinator Caroline Cowley.
The artsandhealth.ie documentation bursary 2019 supported the production of this podcast, in addition to a publication Other People’s Practices: And More Besides and an academic paper by Dr. Sheelagh Broderick, ‘Contemporary Art, Health & Medicine: Other People’s Practices: Who are the Other People?’