About this event
In The Deviant Majority (from Basaglia to Brazil) Dora García addresses the revolutionary reforms in psychiatry that grew out of the political movement of the late 1960s, and looks at alternative treatment programs practiced today. This film takes place against the backdrop of three meetings: the Psychiatric Hospital of Trieste's theatre company Accademia della Follia (Academy of Madness), made up of both patients and healthcare workers; Rio de Janeiro's Freaked on the Scene Theatre of the Oppressed; and activist Carmen Roll, former member of the German Socialist Patients' Collective (SPC). The contemporary theatre programs use creative expression as therapy and revise divisions between normality and abnormality, attempting to erase the prejudice and social exclusion associated with the disease. • Dora García is an artist, teacher, and researcher who lives and works between Barcelona and Oslo. García uses the exhibition space as a platform to investigate the relationship between the visitor, the artwork, and place. In addition to a vast body of performance work, she has made several films and publications, each stemming from extensive research into figures and stories from leftist political history. Her work has been presented in numerous international art exhibitions, including Münster Sculpture Projects (2007), the Venice Biennale (2011, 2013, 2015), the Sydney Biennial (2008), the São Paulo Biennial (2010), dOCUMENTA 13 (2012), and the Gwangju Biennale (2016), among others.
