Beata at the exhibition opening at Kunstraum Niederösterreich

Beata is participating in the wonderful exhibition *Life Constantly Escapes* at Kunstraum Niederösterreich with her performance workshop *Fake Therapy & Political Therapy *.

See below for the workshop description and registration…

FAKE THERAPY & POLITICAL THERAPY

“Therapy is not the restoration of the sick body to normality but of Being to what it is possible to be.”
– Franco Bifo Berardi

“Perhaps one day we will know that there was no art at all, but only medicine.”
– J.M.G. Le Clézio

Fake Therapy and Political Therapy are practices “between two people that stimulate and reactivate each person’s sometimes hidden abilities to heal anyone (or anything). [They are] independent of disciplinary origins and reject expertise or any form of intellectual authority.” The artist Valentina Desideri invented these practices and made them available as open source. It began with an attempt “to meet for 20-minute one-on-one sessions in which one person tried to ‘heal’ the other without knowing how. Each time, the roles were switched, and the last ten minutes were set aside to describe in as much detail as possible what the ‘therapists’ were doing.” She then developed a card game with instructions inspired by these descriptions, which can be modified in any way imaginable. The roles of therapist and patient are arbitrary and interchangeable.

"Fake Therapy" invites participants to address problems on a personal level, while "Political Therapy" deals with structural issues “and creates the conditions for developing new languages to talk about and engage in politics.”
No solution or cure is intended. The sessions are “for those who do not need or want to be ‘fixed.’” By playing with the therapeutic setup, we will rethink the concept of (self-)care and “celebrate the ability of problems to unfold thoughts and images through touch and conversation.”

The workshop is part of the accompanying program "The Senses Are Inexhaustible," which complements the exhibition "Life Constantly Escapes."

Due to COVID-19 safety measures, the workshop will take place online. Participation in the workshop is only possible in pairs, as the exercises are done in pairs. Pleaseregister at anmeldung[at]kunstraum.net, Subject: “Fake Therapy.” Once you have registered, you will receive the link to join the workshop.

Click here to visit the Kunstraum Niederösterreich event page.

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