The third workshop will be run by Spanish artist Dora García (b.Valladolid, 1965). García s work is developed around unconventional formats showing a conceptual background: texts, photographs, installations conceived for the specific sites of the institutions where she intervenes. Often recurring to participative art forms, García explores the relation between the artist, the artwork and the viewer and scrutinizes the varied nuances of reality, which reveals itself developed on multiple levels of potential interpretation and experience. The workshop will act as a first presentation of the ongoing project Mad Marginal and its provisional results: the film The Deviant Majority and the artist book Mad Marginal cahier #1: from Basaglia to Brazil, co-published by Fondazione Galleria Civica and Mousse Publishing, Milan. Defined by García as an extended film project , Mad Marginal brings the artist and the institution to expand beyond themselves and to explore a territory placed...between madness and marginality . Acting as an introduction to the three main sections of the Mad Marginal project ? radical politics, radical art, radical psychiatry ? the workshop will enable a shared reflection on the instruments (public talks, seminars, the setting up of an ongoing archive, the first publication and the film) employed by the artist. Mad Marginal was inspired by the books of Franco Basaglia, the Italian psychiatrist and researcher who in 1978 promoted the 180 law , by means of which Italy was among the first countries in the world to abolish mental hospitals. García s intent is to investigate the tradition of the anti-psychiatry theories, and in particular the Basaglia revolution , as a prism to look at marginality as a possible creative position, investigating the relation between radical politics and artistic reflection. The Fondazione Galleria Civica would like to thank the other partners who supported the ongoing project: Saint-Lukas Hogeschool, (Brussels), Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (Brussels), Peep-Hole (Milan), Festival dell Arte Contemporanea (Faenza), Nomas Foundation (Rome), Formcontent (London) and the 29th Bienal de São Paulo.
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