ULTRASANITY.
ON MADNESS, SANITATION, ANTIPSYCHIATRY AND RESISTANCE

The Brother Moves On | Photo: Patrik Bablo
The Brother Moves On | Photo: Patrik Bablo
The Brother Moves On | Photo: Patrik Bablo
The Brother Moves On | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Urban Feral | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Urban Feral | Photo: Patrik Bablo
The Brother Moves On | Photo: Patrik Bablo
The Brother Moves On | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Adjani Okpu-Egbe | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Adjani Okpu-Egbe | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Alessandra Eramo | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Alessandra Eramo | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Alessandra Eramo | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Alessandra Eramo | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Ghayath Almadhoun | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Ghayath Almadhoun | Photo: Patrik Bablo
The Brother Moves On | Photo: Patrik Bablo
The Brother Moves On | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Leo Asemota | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Leo Asemota | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Elisabeth Tambwe | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Elisabeth Tambwe | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Elisabeth Tambwe | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Elisabeth Tambwe | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Elisabeth Tambwe | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Elisabeth Tambwe | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Patricia Gherovici | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Patricia Gherovici | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Lukas Hofmann with mirabella paidamwoyo dziruni, Scott Hopper, Luzek Marny, Adrian Quentin Vardi, Elena Veleckaite and Nico Walker | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Lukas Hofmann with mirabella paidamwoyo dziruni, Scott Hopper, Luzek Marny, Adrian Quentin Vardi, Elena Veleckaite and Nico Walker | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Lukas Hofmann with mirabella paidamwoyo dziruni, Scott Hopper, Luzek Marny, Adrian Quentin Vardi, Elena Veleckaite and Nico Walker | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Lukas Hofmann with mirabella paidamwoyo dziruni, Scott Hopper, Luzek Marny, Adrian Quentin Vardi, Elena Veleckaite and Nico Walker | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Frederick W. Hickling | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Frederick W. Hickling | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Dorothée Munyaneza | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Dorothée Munyaneza | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Dorothée Munyaneza | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Dorothée Munyaneza | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Jota Mombaça | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Jota Mombaça | Photo: Patrik Bablo
The Brother Moves On | Photo: Patrik Bablo
The Brother Moves On | Photo: Patrik Bablo

We cordially invite you to the public program of  ULTRASANITY. ON MADNESS, SANITATION, ANTIPSYCHIATRY AND RESISTANCE – a project in four chapters which challenges Western scientific methods and perspectives on mental health. It questions medical (mis)conceptions of psychopathologies by situating them in the context of coloniality, racialisation, objectification, and patriarchal oppression. This project confronts us again with traumas and fears of displacement and contamination, pondering the notion of madness beyond a Western understanding. Without romanticising the notion and stigma of madness, we seek to address the heuristic and generative potential of certain forms of delirium. Our additional aims are to grant fundamental significance to community engagement and to spiritual, systemic, intra-generational histories in formulating healing strategies. With this exhibition and discursive programme, we navigate the space of ULTRASANITY, to problematize the dichotomy of insanity as the opposite of sanity, and to inhabit the liminal space that lies past the norm, stripped of processes of normalisation and control. 

The Invocations program comprises a series of performances, film screenings, talks and round-table discussions, workshops, and sonic interventions, which bring together artists, writers, activists, filmmakers and musicians, patients, healers, clinicians, cognitive scientists, scholars and practitioners involved in the clarities and twilights of the ultrasane.

Angela Melitopoulos | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Angela Melitopoulos | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Dora Garcia | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Dora Garcia | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Angela Melitopoulos | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Angela Melitopoulos | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Patrick Vernon | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Patrick Vernon | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Jaswant Guzder | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Jaswant Guzder | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Taoufiq Izeddiou | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Taoufiq Izeddiou | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Taoufiq Izeddiou | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Taoufiq Izeddiou | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Taoufiq Izeddiou & Maleem Habib | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Taoufiq Izeddiou & Maleem Habib | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Debbie-Ann Chambers | Photo: Patrik Bablo
Debbie-Ann Chambers | Photo: Patrik Bablo