Living Museum

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TransUtopia Exhibition, Wil, CH, 2017

The Living Museum is a movement devoted to the dissemination of art shelters for the mentally ill, modeled on the first Living Museum in Queens , New York . Authentic art is created and exhibited at the same time. It is dedicated to the beauty of art and healing . The aim is the change of identity from the mentally ill to the artist in an atmosphere of community, solidarity and creativity. This movement is supported by the Living Museum Association Switzerland.

history

The Living Museum was founded in 1983 by Janos Marton, a Hungarian artist and psychologist, and Bolek Greczynski, an artist from Poland. They were influenced by the European art brut scene, e.g. B. the Prinzhorn Collection in Heidelberg and the House of Artists in Gugging in Klosterneuburg near Vienna. As a building for the Living Museum, Marton and Greczynski received an abandoned restoration building on the spacious clinic area from the clinic management of the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens, New York, which formerly housed a huge kitchen and 20 dining rooms for 1,000 patients. They renovated it and gradually filled it with life and art.

The Living Museum Association was founded on July 8, 2013 by Magdalena Steinemann, Rose's husband, who worked in the Living Museums in Wil and New York, and Daniel Schwarz, director of the Heimstätten day care center in Wil, the non-profit Living Museum Association based in Wil, Switzerland. The association aims to promote the Living Museum idea (art museum and workplace for mentally impaired people, seniors and artists) and to set up Living Museum projects in Switzerland.

concept

The Living Museum concept is the fourth great revolution in the history of psychiatry from the end of the 18th century - after the alleged liberation of the mentally ill from chains by Philippe Pinel , the introduction of psychotropic drugs and psychoanalysis according to Sigmund Freund and CG Jung .

The Living Museum as an artistic concept is based on a performance in which everything is in flux and perpetual transformation. Both all its members and the plants are growing. Individual peculiarities that make you an outsider in society are celebrated in the Living Museum and offer an advantage in the creation of art. The high artistic potential of people who have had extreme psychological experiences is recognized and shown to the public in exhibitions. The Living Museum reverses the prevailing idea of ​​integration: not the mentally ill should reintegrate into society, but society should integrate into the Living Museum and be healed from there. The Living Museum concept offers ways of healing, a high quality of life, is cost-efficient and requires few carers.

Differentiation from art therapy

Art therapy is a form of therapy that uses artistic materials and methods and is based on different approaches. In the Living Museum, the art of people who have had extreme psychological experiences is promoted and shown in international exhibitions. All ten principles of the idea of recovery come into play here.

distribution

The Ateliers-Living Museum in Wil, Switzerland is the second existing Living Museum (founded in 2004); this was followed by the Living Museums in Bennebroeg (Netherlands) (2008), in Yongin (Korea) (2016), in Lyss (Switzerland) (2017), in Tbilisi (Georgia) and in Indonesia (2018). Further Living Museums in Switzerland such as the Living Atelier Olten and the Living Museum Zurich are under construction, as well as in Holland, Spain and Austria.

Exhibitions

  • How much history does a person carry? Farm operation 2012
  • 1st International Art Therapy Symposium 2014
  • Irritations, old town Wil, 2015
  • Selfies and Dronies, Eventhalle Klinik Wil 2016
  • TransUtopia, Manor and Event Hall 2017
  • Artwil: Consumer criticism, 2018
  • Web of hearts: Stadtgalerie Balière Frauenfeld, 2018
  • Living Museum retrospective: FH. St. Gallen, 2018
  • 1st National Patient Congress, Bern 2018

Associated Organizations

  • Psychiatry St. Gallen North. CH
  • Heimstätten Wil, CH
  • Pro Mente Sana, ZH, CH
  • The Living Museum New York, USA
  • The Living Museum Bennebroeg, NL
  • The Living Museum Lyss, CH
  • The Living Museum Vienna, A
  • The Living Museum Graz, A
  • The Living Museum Yogin, K.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Joseph Guislain: Speech Janos Marton. December 15, 2016, accessed November 26, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Patricia C. Phillips on Bolek Greczynski and the People of the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, “Battlefields”. Retrieved November 26, 2018 (American English).
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  7. ^ Janos Marton: Living Museum Philosophy . Ed .: WHO Conference. BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS, December 15, 2016 ( koreatesol.org [accessed November 26, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Michael Hug: Wearable and Unsustainable Stories | St.Galler Tagblatt . In: St.Galler Tagblatt . ( tagblatt.ch [accessed on November 26, 2018]).
  9. ^ Brigitta Bommer, Rose husband, Nicole Ottiger: 1st International Art Therapy Symposium Crystals. Brigitta Bommer, Rose's husband, Nicole Ottiger, accessed November 24, 2018 .
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  15. ↑ Stefan Ribler: St.Gallen culture cycle. In: https://www.fhsg.ch/fileadmin/Dateiliste/5_fachhochschule/veranstaltungen/2018/Kulturcycle_Kontrast/Living_Museum_Retrospektiven_2018__003_.pdf . FH St.Gallen, November 6, 2018, accessed on November 24, 2018 .
  16. ^ Pro Mente Sana: Living Museum - the fourth revolution in psychiatry. Pro Mente Sana, Swiss Mental Health Network, Federation of Swiss Psychologists, Bern University of Applied Sciences, September 14, 2018, accessed on November 24, 2018 .