Art and Transformation - Creating Justice in Mental Health Care
Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health
Mad in America
4.8 • 201 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Madness: Fighting for Justice in Mental Health is an upcoming conference created by the Disruption Network Lab. The Lab examines the intersection of politics, technology and society, exposing the misconduct and wrongdoing of the powerful. This year, the conference will investigate systems of mental health care focusing on the prevailing discourses and practices, biases, and inequalities. It will explore the questions: What does it mean to have a just mental health care system and who has access to it? Who decides who is labelled as mad?
The conference is being held in Berlin, Germany, as well as streamed online free on November 25th through the 27th. You can view the conference live at disruptionlab.org/madness.
In this podcast, Mad in America’s Arts Editor, Karin Jervert, interviews the curator of the conference, Elena Veljanovska, and three artists—Dolly Sen, Anika Krbetschek, and Marcello Lussana—about art and transformation, human rights, and justice in mental health.
Dolly Sen is an internationally renowned writer, filmmaker, artist, and activist. Anika Krbetschekis a multidisciplinary artist and curator. And Marcello Lussana is a research associate and coordinator of the project Social Interaction Through Sound Feedback, Sentire.
These artists will be interviewed at the conference on Saturday the 26th at 8 pm CET/2 pm EST on a panel moderated by Lily Martin titled “Art and Survivor Empowerment.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello everyone. I'm Karin Gervert, the arts editor at Mad in America. |
| 0:19.0 | And today I will be talking with Elena Vianoska, the curator of a really |
| 0:24.3 | exciting upcoming conference online and in Berlin titled Madness, Fighting for Justice in Mental |
| 0:31.1 | Health. I'll also be talking later in this podcast with three artists from a panel at this |
| 0:37.1 | conference titled Art and Survivor |
| 0:39.1 | Empowerment. The conference was created by the Disruption Network Lab and investigate systems |
| 0:45.3 | of mental health care and support, focusing on prevailing discourses and practices, biases, and |
| 0:52.9 | inequality. It also explores the possibilities of a mental health system |
| 0:57.3 | which puts human rights and justice at the center of its practice. The disruption lab network |
| 1:04.0 | itself examines the intersection of politics, technology, and society, and exposes the misconduct |
| 1:10.2 | and wrongdoing of the powerful. |
| 1:12.8 | The conference is being held in Berlin, as well as streamed online for free, November 25th through |
| 1:18.9 | the 27th. You can view the conference live at DisruptionLab.org. Later in this podcast, we will |
| 1:26.2 | be interviewing artist Dalai Sen, Anika Krebbekic, and Marcella |
| 1:30.8 | Lusana. But I wanted to talk briefly with Elena first, so she can tell us more about the |
| 1:36.5 | conference and how it came about. Elena is a freelance curator and cultural manager, and curated |
| 1:43.1 | this year's conference for Disruption Network Lab. |
| 1:46.5 | Welcome, Elena. |
| 1:48.0 | Hello, Karen, and thanks for inviting me. |
| 1:50.9 | Thank you for being here. |
| 1:52.8 | First off, I just wanted you to tell us a little bit about yourself. |
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