About Stable Gestures

Stable Gestures is a collaborative platform that brings together health research, ethical analysis, artistic practice, and participatory elements to explore how care, health, and personal histories are shaped in a society where all are increasingly defined through data.

This project emerges from the shared research interests of the contributors in care ethics, memory, health, and community. Mehrunisha Suleman’s work in global bioethics and clinical ethics has focused on how health systems often fall short for racial and ethnic minority communities, particularly due to misaligned epistemic and cultural assumptions. Vincent Straub’s research investigates the potential of large-scale biobanks to improve population health and how family structure, gender norms, and social environments influence health risk behaviours and mental health, with a focus on young men. This dialogue is extended through collaboration with Deshna Shah, whose artistic practices explore language, symbolic scripts, ancestral archive, and the politics of memory. Deshna’s Twilight Language, a script drawn from Hindi, English, and Gujarati, serves as a core motif for encoding and decoding memory, emotion, and identity.

Support

Supported by the ANTITHESES Wellcome Discovery Platform Arts, Health and Ethics Fund, the Cultural Programme at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities and the St Edmund Hall Culture Fund.

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