Care and Control
Other Mirrors: Language and Representation of Illness. A Symposium
Saturday 5 August 1995
Rear Window, Sutton House, 2-4 Homerton High Street, London E9
Other Mirrors, Language and Representation of Illness is a Symposium exploring the avenues taken by Care and Control. It will look at the difficulties of articulating illness and health care.
10am Registration at Hackney Hospital, Homerton High Street, London E9
10.30am Tour
of the exhibition led by Peter Cross, Rear Window and Sacha
Craddock, art critic
12.00pm Lunch, Board Room, Hackney Hospital
1pm Registration at Sutton House, 2-4 Homerton High Street, London E9
1.30pm Introduction – Jean-Paul Martinon, Rear Window
1.45pm Words,
An Exploration of the Language and Mental Illness in Time –
Dr. Trevor Turner, Consultant Psychiatrist, Hackney Hospital
2.10pm Therapy
and the Care and Control Workshops –
Lyn
French, artist, art therapist, co-founder of the Hackney Arts Initiative
2.40pm Images,
Photography and the Representation of Mental Health –
Dr.
Francis McKee, medical historian and curator of the exhibition
Out of Mind, Out of Sight at the Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow
3pm Panel Discussion chaired by Peter Cross, Rear Window
3.45pm Tea
4.15pm The
Abject as Object of Beauty: Aesthetics and Health –
Dr.
Mark Cousins, Director of General Studies at the Architectural
Association
4.45pm Art
Practice in Institutions: The effects of Psychiatric Institutions on Art
Practice – Catherine Yass, artist. Yass recently completed a commission
at the Springfield Hospital, South London.
5.10pm Service
Users Speak Out: A Collaborative Presentation by the Rainbow
Project, a Day Service Unit and the Hackney Arts Initiative’s Friday
Workshop Group with Lisa Cunningham, psychiatric nurse, Hackney
Hospital.
5.40pm Drinks
