Madness, Media, Milieus. Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe

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Dr. Elena Vogman | Freigeist-Fellow der VolkswagenStiftung

This project studies a series of media and milieu practices developed in different settings of Institutional Psychotherapy since the 1940s. It examines efforts to produce environments, institutions, and milieus that would facilitate processes of psychological therapy and healing, in particular by psychiatrists and activists such as François Tosquelles, Jean Oury, Fernand Deligny, Frantz Fanon and Félix Guattari. Drawing on newly discovered archives, the project explores the fundamental role of art and media which crucially contributed to the emergence of psychiatric milieus. At the same time, it investigates the productive repercussions of these media-milieu practices in critical humanities discourses. The project argues that these practices had a crucial impact on the humanities in postwar Europe, in particular post-structuralism and post-colonial studies, but also media theory, film studies, and science and technology studies. Media mold and modify milieus: This is the general hypothesis that will be reflected in four individual sub-projects carried out by historians of art, science, and technology, culminating in a joint exhibit presenting largely unseen texts, images, and films.

13/03/2026

The recording of “Unwalling the Psyche” is now available online:
a conversation between Kader Attia and Wietske Maas as part of the symposium “Frantz Fanon’s Social Therapy.”
https://www.ici-berlin.org/events/unwalling-the-psyche/

13/01/2026

The full program for the upcoming symposium on Frantz Fanon’s Social Therapy: 'To Give Body to an Institution' at ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry is online!

With Kader Attia, Camilla Caglioti, Christopher Chamberlin, Sara El Daccache, Carles Guerra, Tobi Haslett, Samia Henni, Samah Jabr, Jean Khalfa, Brigitta Kuster, Karima Lazali, Wietske Maas, Paul Marquis, David Marriott, Marlon Miguel, Marianna Scarfone, Wanderley Santos, Saniya Taher, David Ventura, Elena Vogman, and Robert J. C. Young.

Registration via the ICI website is open: https://www.ici-berlin.org/events/frantz-fanons-social-therapy/

11/01/2026

Coming up on January 28:

Thinking Sumud and Clinical Work in extremis with Samah Jabr
A Panel Discussion on War, Transgenerational Trauma, Land Dispossession and On-Going Settler Colonialism, organized and moderated by Camilla Caglioti and Marlon Miguel

January 28, 2026, 19.00-20.30, Spore Initiative
Free admission, in English

09/01/2026

Looking back at the workshop “CHOREO/GRAPHICS: Tracing the Social Body” which took place on October 28, 2025, at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

The workshop explored the corporeal and social dimensions of choreography through exhibition making, embodied practice, performance, lectures, and discussions.

With Aleksandra Selivanova, Carla Petzolt, Elena Vogman, Gwendolyn Lootens, Johannes Muselaers, Jonas Rutgeerts, Marlon Miguel, Mats Werchohlad, Mette Edvardsen, Mona Mahall, Sofia Michel, and Stéphane Symons.

Organized by Marlon Miguel, Johannes Muselaers, Jonas Rutgeerts, Aleksandra Selivanova, Stéphane Symons, and Elena Vogman.
Exhibition design & workshop assistance: Daria Lashutina, Sebastian Veloza; graphic design: Uliana Bychenkova; workshop assistance: Felix Brieden, Christian Scheerhorn.

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