nika on festival dei matti
nika dubrovsky doing visual assemblies in venice
via tweet [https://x.com/nikadubrovsky/status/1926594272486166916]:
The Festival dei Matti, held in Venice since 2009, has become a platform for radically rethinking society’s relationship to mental health, care, and marginalization. Its mission is to bring the theme of “madness” back into the public space—beyond the boundaries of medical discourse..t
crazywise (doc) ness
Visual Assembly at Festival dei Matti, Venice A public program of discussions, lectures, and art projects exploring two key questions: *What could spaces of care look like?..t **And what would spaces of anti-care look like?..t
*how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..
ie: imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)
the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]
**everything we’ve seen/done to date.. aka: sea world.. need hari rat park law et al
These two collective art projects—conceived as visual manifestos—reflect, on one hand, the hopes and desires of the festival’s participants, and on the other, what they would want to reject: a vision of care turned dystopian.
Yesterday marked the first day of the Assemblies.
The group working on the desired project explored ideas for *integrating everything necessary for the reproduction of life into a single network:..t from food production to knowledge sharing, from healthcare as a built-in part of community life to the collective growing of flowers and decorating of shared living spaces.
for that we have to get to the root of problem.. legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do
there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. the unconditional part of left-to-own-devices ness.. for (blank)’s sake.. and we’re missing it
ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
Surprisingly, the group focused on anti-utopia described a near-existing reality—marked by privatization, alienation, mechanization, automation, and the “efficiency” of both the healthcare system and everyday life.
As one participant put it: “When you enter a hospital, you become part of a factory system that processes you through it.”
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be you. 