The 12-Hour Conference
By: Barbora Kleinhamplová & Eva Koťátková ; translation Tereza Novická
Contributors: Koťátková, Eva, 1982- author; Novická, Tereza, translator
Publisher: ArtMap; Institute of Anxiety
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Prague]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9788090787339
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Drama; Therapeutic use; Mental health facilities; Employees; Mental health; Anxiety; Performance art; Role playing; Národní ústav duševního zdraví (Klecany, Czech Republic)
Other titles: Twelve hour conference
Work titles: 12 hodinová konference
Notes: This publication by the authors Barbora Kleinhamplová and Eva Koťátková is the outcome of one year of field research at the National Institute of Mental Health in Klecany, incorporating more than 70 interviews with its employees, with the aim of building up a subjective portrait of the institution.The backbone of the publication is the transcript of a 12-hour conference of a performative authorial format, divided into three parts: Conference, Hallucination and Judgement, plus an extensive pictorial part composed of fragments of images of the institution. The script offers an insight into the daily rituals, operational functions, dreams, visions and also pressures and anxieties of the employees of an institution which not only examines, but also generates anxiety.

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