A Possible Strength: Towards a Poietics of Living Together

6pm
Situated Unwellness or How Mental Diseases Have Been Privatized
Round table discussion. Participants: Manuel Desviat, Flipas GAM, Hierbabuena y La Revolución Delirante.

Many of our regrets and suffering, that move from the physical to the psychological, have their beginnings in the social realm, free from the influence of biology. This is an intuition that the anti-psychiatric movement put into practice during the 60s and 70s, turning the fight against involuntary commitment and violence of the clinic into a battlefield. From the activism of mutual support groups to the care of new professional collectives that reject medicalization as the lone answer to the illnesses we suffer, this round table seeks to situate a series of reflections on a concrete form of governance that represses the right to be different.

8pm
Fake Therapy
A practice proposed by Valentina Desideri with Ainhoa Hernández y Andrea Rodrigo.

7pm
San Clemente, Raymond Depardon and Sophie Ristelhueber, France, 1981, B / W, VOSE, 100 '
Presented by Alfredo Aracil

The year 1980, in which this film was filmed, marks the end of a decade of anti-asylum struggles and the beginning of what has been called control societies, with their surveillance and molecular regulation spaces. Raymond Depardon and Sophie Ristelhueber film corridors and common spaces of the last days of a psychiatric hospital on the island of San Clemente, near Venice. This hospital appears as the emblem of an era where therapy inevitably involves confinement, violence and marginalization. The documentary, shot during the carnival period, portrays the daily environment of patients and relatives, as well as its links with medical personnel in the labyrinth of the Venetian hospital.

7pm
Screening and debate on the unedited documentary in progress Estado de malestar (Unwellness State) by María Ruido and the InsPiradas collective.

María Ruido defends film as a space to reflect on the intersection between neo-liberal capitalism and mental health. Her new film, Estado de malestar ((In)adaptación, sintomatología social y enfermedad en tiempos del realismo capitalista), still in progress, uses texts by Franco Berardi Bifo, Mark Fisher, Santiago López Petit, and Marta Plaza, among others, as its foundation, as well as conversations with people diagnosed and undiagnosed with mental illnesses and psychological suffering, to which the artist includes her own experience. In this session, Ruido will share with the audience some of the images from her project, to be finished in November 2018. The feminist collective InsPiradas, which works with mutual support and care as focal points, will participate in the debate.

6pm
One Unyielding Force: to Politize Unwellness
Lecture by Santiago López-Petit. Presented by Franco Castignani

Work means, within the framework of neo-liberalism, a form of political control that demands an obligation, sometimes painful, to “have a life” to manage. In a conversation open to debate with the audience, Santiago López-Petit presents his latest book, El gesto absoluto. El caso Pablo Molano: una muerte política (Pepitas de Calabaza, Logroño, 2018), about the intersection between politics and illness, and on the political nature of suicide.

8pm
Our own homeless
Lecture-performance by Liv Schulmann

7pm
Film screening Animación en la sala de espera, (Lively Waiting Room) Carlos Rodríguez Sanz and Manuel Coronado. Spain, 1981, color, In Spanish, 78 min.
Presented by Manuel Desviat and Alfredo Aracil.

This documentary was filmed in the former mental hospital in Leganés, today the Psychiatric Institute, between 1977 and 1979, during the transformation process of mental health assistance, which, during the first years of democratic transition post-Franco, resulted in a collegiate direction and of assembly. In line with other films that have entered in the daily lives of mental health patients and users of mental health, Animación en la sala de espera installs a camera in the institution's day-to-day life, also going outside its walls in search of forms of affection and bonds found in minimal gestures and repetition.

5pm
Round table discussion
With the participation of: to be confirmed, possibly Franco Castignani, Belén Solá (La Rara Troupe), participants of the program’s reading group, Amador Fernández-Savater.

6:30pm
How to live by our won – how to live together
Lecture by Peter Pál Pelbart

Beginning with a meeting with Gilles Deleuze in the early 1980s, Peter Pál Pelbart reflects on how to how to combine the desire to be together when we are not left sufficiently alone, in a crossroads of references and tones that span from Roland Barthes' text this program takes its title from to Jean Oury's experiences, director along with Félix Guattari of La Borde clinic. How does one sustain a collective that maintains a dimension of individuality? How does one create heterogeneous spaces, with its own tonalities and different atmospheres, in which each one is connected in its own way? How does one maintain an availability capable of promoting encounters without imposing them, or attention that permits contact and preserves otherness? How does one make room for chance, without planning for it? How does one sustain a “gentleness” that allows for the emergency of speaking there, where the affective void prospers. These are some of the questions that emerge from this philosopher's research, his conception of health beyond diagnoses and the medical paradigm.

8pm
Schizo pic-nic
Performance, Florencia Rodríguez Giles. Museum tour, beginning at Nouvel Building, Protocol Room