S/HE SPOKE ‘I AND I’ FOR WE

On the poiesis of collective mental healing

AoN Symposium

on the occasion of the

58th Venice Art Biennale of Art

Isola di San Servolo

May 10th, 2019

11am-6pm

 

The AoN (AoN_Association_of_Neuroesthetics) Venice Symposium 2019 will coincide with the first chapter of the year-long project Ultrasanity. On Madness, Sanitation, Antipsychiatry and Resistance on which the AoN collaborates with SAVVY Contemporary and that is funded by the TURN Fund of the German Federal Cultural Foundation (Kulturstiftung des Bundes).

Conceived as a mixed format of lectures, interventions, discussions, screenings and performances, the event will see the participation of sociologist Monica Greco, neuroscientist Vittorio Gallese, psychiatrist and artist Jaswant Guzder, actor and psychiatrist Vitor Pordeus, theatre director and activist Seydou Ndiaye, artists Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kader Attia, Sonya Lindfors and Diego Bruno, among others.

CONCEPT Elena Agudio (AoN), Ana Gomez-Carrillo (AoN), org

ORGANIZERS  Elena Agudio & Joerg Fingerhut (Directors of the AoN_Association_of_Neuroesthetics)

PROGRAM

11:00         

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung   WELCOME & INTRODUCTION

11:10

 Elena Agudio, Ana Gomez-Carrillo, Joerg Fingerhut  CONCEPT NOTE

11:30

 Fredrick Hickling  VIDEO INTERVENTION

11:45

 Vitor Pordeus: Madness Hotel  PRESENTATION

12:15

 Seydou Ndiaye: Exercise PERFORMANCE

12:45

 Jaswant Guzder  PRESENTATION

13:15

 BREAK

14:00

 Vittorio Gallese  PRESENTATION

14:30

 Monica Greco  PRESENTATION

15:00

 Patrick Vernon PRESENTATION

15:30

 Monica Greco, Jaswant Guzder, Seydou Ndiaye, Vitor Pordeus, Joao Biehl, Patrick Vernon, Vittorio Gallese  DISCUSSION

16:30

 Psychiatric community of Fondazione Emilia Bosis PERFORMANCE

11:00–17:00

 Pelagie Gbaguidi  DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE

MORE INFORMATION WILL FOLLOW SOON!

 

 

 

 

 

10 years of AoN_Association_of_Neuroesthetics

BORDERLANDS. ART AND NEUROSCIENCE IN DIALOGUE

Roter Salon, Volksbühne Berlin

September 28, 2018


In 2018 the AoN (AoN_Association_of_Neuroesthetics) celebrated its 10th anniversary. With the generous support of the Abbushi family, we brought together neuroscientists, neuro-estheticians, critics of neuroesthetics, artists, poets, curators, as well as friends and family of the AoN to celebrate this event. Over the course of one day at the “Rote Salon”, we discussed in four panels (dedicated to poetry, psychiatry, the history and future of the AoN, and the most recent developments in neuroesthetics) current developments and engaged in artistic presentations and aesthetic experiences (see the leaflet of the event), followed by an afterparty with Lamin Fofana.

(For more info, see also the summary by Corinna Kühnapfel.)