Dr Fiona Davies

Fiona Davies’s art practice is based in installation, video, writing, and spoken word performance, informed by the abject and the beautiful. Its purpose is to be a transdisciplinary, political practice of storytelling. These stories primarily address the patient’s experiences of the practice of medicine. Davies focuses on the patient using humour, chagrin, and gaming, layered with the pleasure of fragments of beauty within the hospital.

In her performative works she works to disrupt the hierarchy of knowledges by layering academic writing, fiction and oral history as equals. Through the performance Davies tells a story and proposes an idea to the audience and then waits for a response. Then the audience is brought together that is a catalyst for conversation. The undocumented conversations that follow form part of an archive that records the exchange of stories of the everyday experiences of the medicalised experience of members of the audience.

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Fiona Davies Website