Tag: Psychology

Presenting my work on re-performance of contemporary performance work as a form of preservation, oral storytelling and reinterpretation at Transformation Digital Art 2019, LIMA Amsterdam.

March 21: 16:00-17:30 PART III: How to Activate the Past and (Re)Present It

Anne Marie Duguet (University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
An Anarchive Archive

Adam Lockhart (University of Dundee)
VR as an Archiving and Simulation Tool for Media Artworks

Emile Zile (Digital Ethnography Research Centre, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)
Wearing the Skin Suit: Interpretation and Reperformance of Historical Performance Art

Moderated by Serena Cangiano (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland)

In Florian Habicht’s new documentary we are introduced to the cast of Spookers, a New Zealand live action thrill-experience set in a decommissioned psychiatric hospital in Auckland, New Zealand. The cast or ‘family’ address the camera and divulge their experiences of mental illness, religion, sexuality, social cohesion.

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Spookers. New doco by Florian Habicht at Melb film fest. Decommissioned NZ psych hospital now used as site for spooky thrill theme park. A site of repression turned into expression. From managing the psyche to fit social norms to allowing expression of psycho-sexual extremes in a controlled environment. #rage #expression #portraiture

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The building that once held and managed the psyche, often under duress and against the will of the patients, is now a site for the expression of psycho-sexual extremes under controlled conditions. The site operates as a space that connects both the unconscious drives of the players in the current day and the repression and enforced compliance that was common in Psychiatric hospitals until the opening of institutions following the social upheavals of the 1960’s.

Titicut Follies…