Projects tagged "Trauma"

Training in Dance and movement Psychotherapy as a tool for reconciliation
Practitioner:
Dunna
Date:
Mar 27 2010
For over 60 years, Colombia has been facing war between guerrilla groups, the State, paramilitary groups and drug dealers. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, raped, displaced and threaten by this armed conflict. The common trait of this tragedy has been the people being in the middle, the people that still today pay the consequences.
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Unland
Practitioner:
Doris Salcedo
Date:
Mar 19 1998
Doris Salcedo talked extensively with victims of the violence in Colombia. For the project titled Unland she spoke specifically with children who had witnessed the murder of their parents. This piece was a poetic response and representation of their testimony. Salcedo combined halves of tables together to make a whole. In the seam where the tables joined Salcedo meticulously sewed the tables together using white silk thread, dark hair and bone.
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All in the Family Parts 1 & 2
Practitioner:
IDEAS producer Mary O'Connell
Date:
Apr 14 2016
The link between early trauma and ill health later was untilled soil in the world of medicine. But the possibility of a connection captured the interest of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. And it was the beginning of a 25-year odyssey for Vincent Felitti when he teamed up with researchers to study the health of 17,000 members of a preventive care program at Kaiser Permanente, a private insurer.
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Real Pictures
Practitioner:
Colombia College Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Photography
Date:
Jan 1 1995
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Iraq War Veterans Against the War
Practitioner:
Jose Vasquez - Executive Director
Date:
Jul 1 2004
Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) was founded by Iraq war veterans in July 2004 at the annual convention of Veterans for Peace (VFP) in Boston to give a voice to the large number of active duty service people and veterans who are against this war, but are under various pressures to remain silent. From its inception, IVAW has called for:
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