{"id":7434,"date":"2022-01-26T20:52:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T01:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/?post_type=event&#038;p=7434"},"modified":"2022-04-12T18:12:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T22:12:36","slug":"the-art-of-madness","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/the-art-of-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Madness: Catastrophe, Memory, Desire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EpGHflqwSBg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Live transcription is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.streamtext.net\/player?event=BCRW_Captions\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">available here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This panel concludes the 47th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference, &#8220;Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Three multimedia artists whose work forges pathways to healing amid trauma and grief will present recent works and reflect in dialogue about their creative processes.<\/p>\n<p data-key=\"107\"><span data-key=\"106\"><strong data-slate-leaf=\"true\">Mimi Kh\u00fac<\/strong> is a writer, scholar, \u201cteacher of things unwell,\u201d and editor of the collective hybrid book art project, <em data-slate-leaf=\"true\">Open in Emergency<\/em>, which takes a decolonizing approach to mental health by asking \u201cwhat Asian American unwellness looks like and how to tend to that unwellness.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p data-key=\"105\"><span data-key=\"104\"><strong data-slate-leaf=\"true\">Bazeed<\/strong> is a multi-genre writer, editor, curator, and performer, whose recent projects include a book-length erasure poem of Daniel Defoe&#8217;s creative nonfiction account of London&#8217;s bubonic plague. Their resulting book-length erasure, Plague Year Most Remarkable, carves out the language of that other, older archive into an extended anaphora poem, a moirologia in the face of capitalism&#8217;s insistence on the discursive &amp; practical relegation of certain bodies to disposability. <\/span><\/p>\n<p data-key=\"109\"><span data-key=\"108\">Writer, artist, and arts educator <strong data-slate-leaf=\"true\">Jess X. Snow <\/strong>wrote and directed the film <em data-slate-leaf=\"true\">Little Sky<\/em>, the story of a non-binary drag sensation who returns to their hometown to face their estranged father and the childhood memories that continue to haunt them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p data-key=\"111\"><span data-key=\"110\">These artists will discuss their works and the questions that circulate among them with moderator, writer, and Barnard librarian <strong data-slate-leaf=\"true\">Vani Natarajan<\/strong>, MFA Candidate in Poetry at Queens College.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Join us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCQlRhZk3WxSLPKxrFUGfUlw\" data-key=\"60\"><span data-key=\"61\">YouTube<\/span><\/a><span data-key=\"62\"> on 4\/12 at 6:30 PM ET. RSVP encouraged.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button warning radius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/we-must-allow-ourselves-to-hurt-artists-and-community-healing-tickets-256504691437\">ATTEND<\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Conference Detail<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/living-in-madness-decolonization-creation-healing\/\">47th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference<\/a> organized by BCRW is entitled &#8220;Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing.&#8221; The conference will be virtual and sessions will take place over a period of weeks from February to April, 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This conference will explore experiences of madness, disability, survival, and refusal<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through the frameworks of mad studies, disability justice, and artistic practice. <\/span>Scholars, artists, activists, and practitioners will interrogate structures of medicalization and institutionalization, engaging in <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dialogue about the entanglement of psy-disciplines with colonial and nation-building projects predicated on scientific racism, misogyny, xenophobia, transphobia, and eugenics. We ask how structural violence has both created maddening conditions and established the terms by which survivors are pathologized, criminalized and alienated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the questions we want to explore are those posed by conference panelist Camille Robcis in her intellectual history of institutional psychotherapy, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2021), specifically how movements that have attempted to decolonize and otherwise contest the practices of psychiatry can provide us with frameworks to understand our own positioning vis-\u00e0-vis \u201cthe permanence of extreme-right movements, fascisms real and \u2018in our heads,\u2019 still spreading and gaining force throughout the world.\u201d We take inspiration as well from our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z8ub-pHRvTM&amp;t=1s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fall 2021 event with La Marr Jurelle Bruce<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, whose critical discourse about madness encompasses unruliness, radical creativity, and rage in the face of systems that have used the concept of Blackness as disability to foreclose the possibilities of Black freedom. Our conference dialogues will also engage calls for intersectional approaches to abolition and decarceralization address disability and madness, and the imperative to center the experiences of indigenous and Palestinian people resisting psychic oppression while living under occupation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The impetus for this conference comes as we collectively persist while a virus has exposed structural violence and inadequacy of <\/span>profit-based systems of care<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and we are also confronted with increased ecological fragility. We are now understandably asking questions about the shakiness of human experience, and how to reckon with what might be called \u201cunlivable states of mind.\u201d War, ecological destruction, land dispossession, occupation and policing, precarious access to shelter, and confinement in a total institution are among the conditions that are maddening, and yet upheld by powerful schemas that place value on profit, property, and hierarchy over collective wellbeing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gathering together, we explore potential modes of healing. Like seeds we plant without knowing which will root, we pursue collectivity and creativity in order to keep living.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Accessibility<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Live transcription and ASL interpretation will be provided. Please email any additional access needs to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:skreitzb@barnard.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">skreitzb@barnard.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This event is free and open to all.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Image Detail<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/tsoku-maela-a-brief-reminder-of-solitude-1024x819.jpeg\" height=\"819\" width=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7433 imgix-fluid\" alt=\"A person lying on a bed reaching towards a single rose, emphasizing themes of longing and tenderness.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/tsoku-maela-a-brief-reminder-of-solitude-1024x819.webp 1024w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/tsoku-maela-a-brief-reminder-of-solitude-300x240.webp 300w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/tsoku-maela-a-brief-reminder-of-solitude-768x614.webp 768w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/tsoku-maela-a-brief-reminder-of-solitude-999x799.webp 999w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/tsoku-maela-a-brief-reminder-of-solitude.webp 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Tsoku Maela, &#8220;A Brief Reminder of Solitude&#8221; (2020)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three multimedia artists whose work forges pathways to healing amid trauma and grief will present recent works and reflect in dialogue about their creative processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7438,"template":"","tags":[308,1371,1382],"class_list":["post-7434","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-art","tag-madness","tag-trauma"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7580,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7434\/revisions\/7580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}