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 Monday June 29, 2009 21:06 by Sophie Mellor - Plan 9 info at plan9 dot org dot uk Plan 9, Bridewell Street, Broadmead, Bristol
 Film event “From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not ‘true’ sanity. Their madness is not ‘true’ madness... Let no one suppose that we meet ‘true’ madness any more than that we are truly sane…” R.D. Laing. Through a period of research and experimentation, artists Alialani will chart a very personal and internalised form of dissent – investigating what can be called insanity, an 'inner' retreat from 'real' life. Touching on withdrawal as a form of protest, monasticism, alternate realities, quasi-science and mythical icons of popular consciousness, fragments of our work will be pin tacked to a noticeboard outside Plan 9 on Bridewell Street throughout the project. These scribbles, specifications, lists and notes will then be confined to a logbook at the culmination of our research. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3there's a thin line between spending too much time retreating into and contemplating your inner space and becoming a pecuilar type of post modern narcissist without realising what has happened.
Last year's Climate Camp claimed 'we are armed only with peer review science.' Perhaps this year's camp should follow Plan 9 and declare 'we are armed only with insanity and quasi-science.'
As tools for raising awareness and instigating action, i'm not convinced that quasi-science and insanity are useful strategies. Similarly, retreating into oneself and withdrawing from society isn't really likely to change much other than removing any voice you might otherwise have had.
experimenting with insanity isn't a very good thing, even if we think we know what we're doing, and whatever insanity really is, usually people are unfortunate even to be it without wanting to have got there, but if you go looking for it, you may find yourself in a not very good place at all, for you, and the world around you.
Be careful, and remember to come back.