Join artist-in-residence Simon Raven for a provocative, gold-lamé-clad performance-lecture that satirically reframes bipolar disorder as the ultimate career strategy for precarious times. Through this audacious blend of disability satire and academic critique, Raven transforms the tears of PhD students and adjunct faculty into "therapeutic elixirs," explores the olfactory dimensions of mood disorders, and reveals how diagnosis might become the next competitive marketplace in our AI-disrupted future. Drawing from twenty years of lived experience with bipolar disorder, Raven offers a darkly humorous yet poignant examination of how mental health conditions are simultaneously stigmatized and commodified.
The interactive session includes original films shot on campus, AI-generated music, and invites participants to collectively transform their anxieties about the future into a collaborative soundscape.
This is not just a talk—it's a gold standard opportunity to experience how disability art powerfully challenges the psychological underpinnings of ableism while exposing the absurdities of our economic system.
Schedule:
14.00-14.15 Welcome and introduction by Prof Victoria Tischler (School of Psychology, Fellow's host)
14.15-15.00 Talk by Simon Raven, artist in residence
15.00-15.45 An activity for participants
15.45-16.30 Simon's artwork: viewing and discussion
16.30-17.00 Drinks and snacks
This is a free event, but registration is required.
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