Mindscapes was a collaborative inquiry. Danielle Olsen from the Wellcome Trust led the project, supported by the curatorial research fellows based in the core Mindscapes cities: Bengaluru, Berlin, New York and Tokyo. The curatorial research fellows liaised with local players from policy, culture, research and advocacy around Mindscapes, and developed programmes and exhibitions in the respective cities. Beyond the curatorial team, the project involved different commissions in cultural production in the fields of contemporary art, design, film, literature, and music. You can see portraits of the protagonists of Mindscapes below.
In each of the Mindscapes cities, the curatorial research fellows worked across policy, culture, research and advocacy around Mindscapes: In Bengaluru, Rohan Patankar, design researcher and strategist with a background in architecture and urbanism, from the interdisciplinary consultancy Quicksand. In Berlin, Margareta von Oswald, curator and anthropologist, based at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In New York, Rebecca Hayes Jacobs, curator, cultural producer and ethnographer based at the CUNY’s Centre for the Humanities. In Tokyo, NOBORI Kukiko, anthropologist based at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences, and KIKUCHI Hiroko, artist and co-founder of inVisible.
Indu Antony is an artist who previously trained in medicine, often working with communities to express the inequalities of gender, class and caste. During her Mindscapes Bengaluru residency at MAP, Indu worked with a network of community centres and opened a new space called Namma Katte – a space for leisure, a space for women to exchange stories of care and mental health. These stories will inform a collective artwork. Indu Antony is an artist who previously trained in medicine, often working with communities to express the inequalities of gender, class and caste.
Kader is a French-Algerian artist and theorist whose previous sculptural, visual and theoretical works are inspired by the question of the visibility and invisibility of the wound. During his Mindscapes Berlin residency at Gropius Bau, Kader continued his research into repair, exploring the immaterial wounds that haunt German society. Kader is a French-Algerian artist and theorist whose previous sculptural, visual and theoretical works are inspired by the question of the visibility and invisibility of the wound.
Yuki Iiyama is a visual artist who works primarily with video and other forms of archival, audio-visual materials. Utilising interviews and personal testimony, she examines power dynamics between individuals, society and history as well as processes such as stigmatization. During her Mindscapes Tokyo residency at Mori Art Museum, Yuki worked with affected communities to explore the social and emotional impact of domestic violence in Japan. Based between Tokyo and Kanagawa, Yuki Iiyama is a visual artist who works primarily with video and other forms of archival, audio-visual materials. Utilising interviews and personal testimony, she examines power dynamics between individuals, society and history as well as processes such as stigmatization.
Within her regular practice, Cecilie often employs artificial intelligence (machine learning) to create artworks, that critically reflect upon our human entanglement with technology. During her Mindscapes International residency, Cecilie’s work has explored the history of industrialised labour practices and their connection with contemporary digital data labour as both pertain to the mental health of workers. Within her regular practice, Cecilie often employs artificial intelligence (machine learning) to create artworks, that critically reflect upon our human entanglement with technology.
During her residency, Mindscapes Writer in Residence Priya Basil has been travelling internationally to places where biomedical and traditional approaches to mental health meet, gathering reflections for an Atlas of Mental Health. In her writing Priya will use personal stories to deepen the narrative and show how she is situated in relation to the rich themes and concepts she engages in her writing.
During her residency, Mindscapes Artist-in-Residence at Large Christine Wong Yap has been engaging with communities across the globe – including teenagers in Bengaluru and New York, library patrons in Berlin and senior citizens outside of Tokyo – to develop zines (self-published magazines) which reflect their perspectives on belonging.
Mindscapes was a collaborative inquiry. Danielle Olsen from the Wellcome Trust led the project, supported by the curatorial research fellows based in the core Mindscapes cities: Bengaluru, Berlin, New York and Tokyo. The curatorial research fellows liaised with local players from policy, culture, research and advocacy around Mindscapes, and developed programmes and exhibitions in the respective cities. Beyond the curatorial team, the project involved different commissions in cultural production in the fields of contemporary art, design, film, literature, and music. You can see portraits of the protagonists of Mindscapes below.
In each of the Mindscapes cities, the curatorial research fellows worked across policy, culture, research and advocacy around Mindscapes: In Bengaluru, Rohan Patankar, design researcher and strategist with a background in architecture and urbanism, from the interdisciplinary consultancy Quicksand. In Berlin, Margareta von Oswald, curator and anthropologist, based at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In New York, Rebecca Hayes Jacobs, curator, cultural producer and ethnographer based at the CUNY’s Centre for the Humanities. In Tokyo, NOBORI Kukiko, anthropologist based at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences, and KIKUCHI Hiroko, artist and co-founder of inVisible.
Indu Antony is an artist who previously trained in medicine, often working with communities to express the inequalities of gender, class and caste. During her Mindscapes Bengaluru residency at MAP, Indu worked with a network of community centres and opened a new space called Namma Katte – a space for leisure, a space for women to exchange stories of care and mental health. These stories will inform a collective artwork. Indu Antony is an artist who previously trained in medicine, often working with communities to express the inequalities of gender, class and caste.
Kader is a French-Algerian artist and theorist whose previous sculptural, visual and theoretical works are inspired by the question of the visibility and invisibility of the wound. During his Mindscapes Berlin residency at Gropius Bau, Kader continued his research into repair, exploring the immaterial wounds that haunt German society. Kader is a French-Algerian artist and theorist whose previous sculptural, visual and theoretical works are inspired by the question of the visibility and invisibility of the wound.
Yuki Iiyama is a visual artist who works primarily with video and other forms of archival, audio-visual materials. Utilising interviews and personal testimony, she examines power dynamics between individuals, society and history as well as processes such as stigmatization. During her Mindscapes Tokyo residency at Mori Art Museum, Yuki worked with affected communities to explore the social and emotional impact of domestic violence in Japan. Based between Tokyo and Kanagawa, Yuki Iiyama is a visual artist who works primarily with video and other forms of archival, audio-visual materials. Utilising interviews and personal testimony, she examines power dynamics between individuals, society and history as well as processes such as stigmatization.
Within her regular practice, Cecilie often employs artificial intelligence (machine learning) to create artworks, that critically reflect upon our human entanglement with technology. During her Mindscapes International residency, Cecilie’s work has explored the history of industrialised labour practices and their connection with contemporary digital data labour as both pertain to the mental health of workers. Within her regular practice, Cecilie often employs artificial intelligence (machine learning) to create artworks, that critically reflect upon our human entanglement with technology.
During her residency, Mindscapes Writer in Residence Priya Basil has been travelling internationally to places where biomedical and traditional approaches to mental health meet, gathering reflections for an Atlas of Mental Health. In her writing Priya will use personal stories to deepen the narrative and show how she is situated in relation to the rich themes and concepts she engages in her writing.
During her residency, Mindscapes Artist-in-Residence at Large Christine Wong Yap has been engaging with communities across the globe – including teenagers in Bengaluru and New York, library patrons in Berlin and senior citizens outside of Tokyo – to develop zines (self-published magazines) which reflect their perspectives on belonging.