Performance: Key Changes, Medicine, Music, and Transformation

Public event
17 Mar 2026
Expired!
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
£10, Concessions Available

Location

Barts North Wing
St Bartholomew’s Hospital, West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE

An interdisciplinary performance exploring transformation through sound, music, and storytelling at the intersection of medicine, patient experience, and contemporary art.

Transformation is a performance that brings together artists, clinicians, researchers, and people with lived experience to explore how change occurs in medical, artistic, and human terms.

Through sound projection, music, film, theatre, and storytelling, the programme examines transformation from multiple perspectives: the patient, the medic, and the artist. Works translate physiological signals and clinical data—pulse, ECG, ECT, cellular imagery—as well as experiences of coma and recovery, into sound, image, and narrative, creating new ways of listening to and understanding medicine.

The programme highlights how creative practice can transform clinical data and lived experience into meaningful artistic forms, generating insight, connection, and shared reflection. Together, these performances invite audiences to consider how art can humanise medical knowledge, shift perspective, and open more connected ways of understanding bodies, experiences, and systems of care.