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Lisa Forestell, Rayner Lily Alma, Jakub Černý + 1 more
The nature of madness has been a topic for discussion since ancient times. However, mental illness is related to modern times and connected with institucionalisation of psychiatry. According to Michel Foucault it was the need of the burgeoisie to do away with troublesome individuals in the 18th century that led to the foundation of special institutions for the so-called mentally ill. Within the framework of those „cells for the unwanted“ psychiatry became a scientific discipline.
Gideon Boie
Gideon Boie is an architect and philosopher and a founder of the BAVO collective. He lectures on the ethics and theory of architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of KU Leuven in Brussels, and his work focuses on the political dimension of art and architecture.
Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley’s passion is to ask whether a human form – as both a vessel for the body and a container for the mind – can be a contemporary subject for contemplation; questions that are essentially spiritual.
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