It's not about pain when you look at it
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It's not about pain when you look at it
Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin
Katrin Pesch has been observing different mechanisms that lead to a seemingly automatic repetition of sexual abuse through several generations of a family. Vanessa Alessi confronts 'Psychological Care of the Infant and Child' with 'Ritalin'. Shafiquah Glenn examines dramaturgies of spaces and chooses unexpected places to stage unaccessible areas thus illustrating the social function of boarders.
In a two year project Katrin Pesch has been observing different mechanisms that lead to a seemingly automatic repetition of sexual abuse through several generations of a family. The pedigree, result of a written survey, represents the different perspectives of her own family history and merges all information, i.e. answers, she has gathered till now into a overall picture of her previous investigations.
From the 1930’s to the 1950’s the experience of crisis lead psychologists to concentrate on the education of children. In her work Vanessa Alessi now confronts Watson’s child-rearing manual “Psychological Care of the Infant and Child”, written in 1928, with Ritalin, a psychiatric drug prescribed for Attention Deficit Disorder in children that came to the US market in 1955 and was allowed in Italy in 2007.
With certain interventions in present processes Shafiquah Glenn examines dramaturgies of spaces and chooses unexpected places to stage unaccessible areas thus illustrating the social function of boarders. The title of her work “With the closed door” is a homage to the US-american poet and activist Aude Lorde who, during a guest professorship at the FU Berlin between 1984 and 1992 was part of the development of the african-german movement.
Kreuzberg Pavillon
Naunynstrasse 53 - 10999 Berlin