by Dr Kai Syng Tan (IAS, UCL) and responded by Dr Vivienne Lo (UCL China Centre for Health and Humanity) and Dr Mohammed Aboulleil Rashed (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Set against the backdrop of the recent Westminster Hall debate and cross-council focus spotlight on mental health amidst a disordered world that is in motion and commotion, and through her commissioned project that investigates the boundaries between ‘order’ and ‘disorder’ (in the psychiatric, artistic, geopolitical and metaphorical senses of the terms), artist Dr Kai Syng Tan sketched out the potential role of the artist-researcher as a connector-disrupter-running messenger generating spaces of ‘productive antagonisms’ in the discussion of the role of the arts in mainstream discourse on wellbeing and health.