intra-accions: collective practices in art and health

project presentation

Intra-accions is a co-creation initiative in the arts, community health and education, jointly promoted by the Poblenou Primary Care Centre, the Maria Espinalt Institute and La Escocesa. The first phase was carried out in 2023 with third-year secondary school students from the Maria Espinalt Institute, and will continue until 2025 with some of the same group of students who are now in their first year of high school.

This meeting is intended as an opening of the process in which workers from the different institutions involved will share their experience of two years of collective work, which culminated in the creation of a Psycho-Emotional Refuge and a Contact and Presence Relaxation Kit.

The term ‘intra-accions’ is inspired by Karen Barad's philosophical notion of ‘intra-action’, which refers to ‘doing with’ the other, promoting relational co-creation from which phenomena and subjects emerge. The project articulates active collaboration between the fields of art, health and education, with methodologies that integrate aesthetic, clinical and pedagogical dynamics. The central objective is to detect and address adolescent malaise through critical, careful and innovative artistic mediation, inspired by traditions such as anti-psychiatry, community health, critical pedagogy and artivism.

bios

Montserrat Verdú. Doctor at EAP Poblenou, Family and Community Medicine

Marta Caño. Teacher at INS Maria Espinalt

Beatriz Regueira Pons. Artist, researcher and mediator in mental health and art.

Itziar Toro. Community Emotional Wellbeing Advisor, EAP Poblenou

You can find more information about intra-accions at this link.

Activity carried out within the framework of Healing Arts Barcelona, a meeting led by the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) and the Jameel Arts & Health Lab, in collaboration with the World Health Organisation, which brings together institutions and professionals from the fields of health, culture and public policy to foster collaboration and promote systemic change.