Hospital Prison University Radio Jakob Jakobsen

Conversation between artist Jakob Jakobsen and curator Lisa Rosendahl about Jakobsen's contribution to the exhibition After Monoculture, which is closing on Sunday 18 June. Jakobsen's work seeks to make visible the violent roots of contemporary Western mental health care focussed solely on the individual, searching instead for collective approaches and ways to understand illness as societal and relational.

Sofia Cerqueira har i en periode overtaget Hospital Prison University Radio og det er med stor glæde og sorg at vi her præsenterer hendes radiomontage 'En samtale om at miste hukommelsen'. Sofia er en skrivende og skabende person som selv har haft berøring med det psykiatriske system.

Programmet handler om mistet hukommelse. Hvordan det kan opleves, når minder forsvinder, når man bliver svigtet af sin egen hjerne og af det sundhedssystemsystem, der skulle passe på en.

I programmet fortæller Sofia, Jamila, Anne og Mikkel om deres egne oplevelser med mistet hukommelsen. Undervejs læser Fine Gråbøl op fra sin roman Ungeenheden, der udkommer i foråret 2021.

Varighed 60 min.

In this episode recorded in the beginning of August we are discussing the urged for normalisation offered by the brief retreat of the virus in Europe during the Summer. What we are experiencing is an obsession with going back to the same destructive normality we were briefly relieved from during lock down. Like the irrational drive to go back to a violent partner despite knowing that it will go wrong there was a general push for restoring the stressfull and exploitative order of capitalist production. This death drive can only be countered by mass general strike and the abolition of capitalist institutions including the mental hospital.

Social Crisis! Mental Crisis! is a series of conversations on Communism and Mental Health in times of pandemia between the artists Sophie Carapetian based in London and Jakob Jakobsen based in Copenhagen. We will be back approx. once a week with occasional guests.