In this presentation, Danish artist, educator, and organizer Jakob Jakobsen will reflect on the relations between psychiatric treatment and academic learning, looking at the different shapes of subjectivity reproduced through these institutions. This lecture is a continuation of research currently being developed through the project Hospital Prison University Archive, a combined archive and radio station based in Copenhagen. Jakobsen’s work experiments with institutions as instruments of power: subtle training camps and space of violence that are reproduced every day. Here, he attempts to find words to explore the threshold between these institutional spaces, and will reflect upon whether new forms of anti-psychiatry and anti-pedagogy are possible.

Note: this lecture was given by Emma Hedditch in Jakobsen's place.