Spectacular Evidence: Theatres of the Observed Mind Dr Michelle Williams Gamaker lecture: Lygia Clark, The House is a Body - Biological Architecture
Convened by Dr Zoë Mendelson and presented by Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Graduate School Public Programme.
A one-day symposium, Spectacular Evidence, will include presentations, performances, screenings and talks from the fields of visual art, medicine and critical theory. Drawing upon histories of madness and its exhibition, and considering how it has been staged as cultural performance, this event will consider behaviours and ‘performances’ exchanged between viewer and physician in relation to patient.
Continuing on from my PhD research into Brazilian artist Lygia Clark, I discuss Clark's work on 'biological architecture'
Programme:
Dr Zoë Mendelson: Short introduction
Session 1: Madness and aesthetic spectacle
Zoe Beloff
Dr Anna Harpin
Florence Peake
1pm – 2pm – lunch break
Session 2: Case studies/Studies of cases
2pm – 4pm – afternoon session
Dr Michelle Williams Gamaker
Eddy Dreadnought
Sal Anderson
Dr Caterina Albano
20 min coffee break
4pm – 6pm – evening session
Session 3: Madness, space and object
Dr Zoë Mendelson
Dr Monika Ankele
Dr Joanne Morra
Rosemary Cronin
