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ART FOR INDIVIDUAL & COLLECTIVE RESILIENCE “VERSUS” ART EXHIBIT PALAIS DES NATIONS (GENEVA) 7 TH TO 25 TH JUNE 2021
“Dancing, playing music, singing, sculpting, painting, writing poetry... Art is a practice that favours the link with nature and essence of creation; it is the infinite capacity of a human being to give more meaning and soulfulness to his or her life” The initiative, ‘Art Impact for Health and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’, promotes the networking of a collective intelligence that links and values both arts and sciences. Whether scientists, leaders, or entrepreneurs of innovative solutions, all wish to contribute with their creativity to the reflection and development of solutions. It is a creative, organic way of federating with distributed leadership, based on co-creation an international consortium within which to reflect upon the practical implementation of SDGs and their societal impact. This approach allows for communicating, in a creative and universal way, the importance of SDGs, the solutions underway, as well as involving stakeholders in a multidisciplinary and multisectoral manner in their implementation. In this respect, Art Impact for Health and Wellbeing SDG incubator makes it accessible to all and presents different perspectives of scientific knowledge by mixing humanism with innovation. This resonance integrates all collectives who work in favor of creativity and humanization of services for an effective social support. People and multidisciplinary communities are set in motion. A place of exchange and sharing is offered to them whereby they can pool ideas and knowledge, as well as support and inspire one another for the benefit of a cause greater than oneself.
By putting collective intelligence into an organic network like a living ecosystem, there is greater potential for innovation than by simply combining intelligence, experience, and knowledge of each individual. This gives an absolute continuity in creativity, motivation and solidarity. It is co-constructing a coherent set of methods, experiences and know-how. It is, additionally, the ability to share the advances of science in service of humanizing public services, and particularly health care for SDG-3 in an artistic form. It is to co-create collectively in a transversal way, and to capitalise on all existing sustainable and fair initiatives. Within this framework, an international exhibition took place in June 2021 on the theme of resilience at the individual and collective level. VERSUS was presented at the Palais des Nations with the support of the UNOG cultural and artistic activities service.
