03 November 2022, 06–08:00 p.m. CET
Salon / Double Feature on “Haptic Visualisation” with Stella Bolaki and Katharina Sabernig

On 3 November 2022, literary scholar Stella Bolaki will meet medical doctor and anthropologist Katharina Sabernig in the first “Double Feature” of our salon. Stella will present her project “Artists‘ Books and Medical Humanities“ and showcase imaginative and authoritative works of illness that transform our understanding of how books, art, and healthcare can be interrelated. Katharina will present her project “Knitted Body Materiality“. Visualizing the interior of the body without evoking disgust is a challenge. However, experience has shown that knitted objects hardly provoke such revulsion because, unlike other forms of representation, they are perceived as pleasant and familiar.

02 December 2022, 04:30–06:30 p.m. CET
Salon / Double Feature on “Designing Sensuous Spaces” with Victoria Bates, Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith and Jennifer Kanary

For our “Double Feature” on 2 December 2022 that focuses on "Designing Sensuous Spaces", we look forward to Victoria Bates, Rebecka Fleetwood-Smith and Jennifer Kanary. The project “Sensing Spaces of Healthcare” led by Victoria rethinks hospitals through its focus on sensory experiences that can be difficult to articulate and explore. It harnesses the opportunities that creative approaches afford in exploring sensory encounters with hospital spaces. Rebecka is the creative researcher on the project. Jennifer is the founder of “Roomforthoughts,” an artistic research practice dedicated to understanding the physics of thought and how the brain constructs realities. In her presentation, she will share “Labyrinth Psychotica. The Wearable“, a psychosis simulation VR project, and the subsequent follow-up project “The Anoiksis Experiment“.

13 January 2023, 04:00–06:00 p.m. CET
Salon / Double Feature on “Film_Psychiatry” with Mireille Berton and Tobias Dietrich

On 13 January 2023, in the final “Double Feature”, we turn our attention to the relationship between film and psychiatry and look forward to Mirelle Berton and Tobias Dietrich. Mireille‘s project on “Cinéma et (neuro)psychiatrie en Suisse: autour des collections Waldau” studies the uses of the film medium by psychiatrists and neurologists between 1920 and 1970. Tobias is the editor of the volume “Kopf/Kino: Psychische Erkrankung und Film” (Mind/Screens: Mental Illness and Cinema) that presents current positions on the subject of mental illness and film aesthetics using the example of documentary, fictional, essayistic, and autobiographic examples of film history. The contributions discuss the films as discourse, mise-en-scène, practice and socio-aesthetic interventions of mental illness.