Other Mirrors
Dates
Saturday 5 August 1995
Venue
Rear Window, Sutton House, 2-4 Homerton High Street, London E9
- 10am Registration at Hackney Hospital, Homerton High Street, London E9
- 10.30am Tour of the exhibition led by Peter Cross, Rear Window and Sacha Craddock, art critic
- 12.00pm Lunch, Board Room, Hackney Hospital
- 1pm Registration at Sutton House, 2-4 Homerton High Street, London E9
- 1.30pm Introduction – Jean-Paul Martinon, Rear Window
- 1.45pm Words, An Exploration of the Language and Mental Illness in Time – Dr. Trevor Turner, Consultant Psychiatrist, Hackney Hospital
- 2.10pm Therapy and the Care and Control Workshops – Lyn French, artist, art therapist, co-founder of the Hackney Arts Initiative
- 2.40pm Images, Photography and the Representation of Mental Health – Dr. Francis McKee, medical historian and curator of the exhibition Out of Mind, Out of Sight at the Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow
- 3pm Panel Discussion chaired by Peter Cross, Rear Window
- 3.45pm Tea
- 4.15pm The Abject as Object of Beauty: Aesthetics and Health – Dr. Mark Cousins, Director of General Studies at the Architectural Association
- 4.45pm Art Practice in Institutions: The effects of Psychiatric Institutions on Art Practice – Catherine Yass, artist. Yass recently completed a commission at the Springfield Hospital, South London.
- 5.10pm Service Users Speak Out: A Collaborative Presentation by the Rainbow Project, a Day Service Unit and the Hackney Arts Initiative’s Friday Workshop Group with Lisa Cunningham, psychiatric nurse, Hackney Hospital.
- 5.40pm Drinks
The Rear Window archive
Seventeen projects staged between 1992 and 1998, with press releases, photographs and the essays published alongside them.