Bedlam was an incredible experience of combining art and mental health in an appropriate way to not only raise awareness but tackle certain characteristics of some of the effects of mental health on its subjects. Presenting both physically made work, video art, old advertisement, drawing books and sculptures from multiple countries around the world and of different time periods, it was clearly spelt out the journey that art and mental health have been on together as well as varying cultures approaches to dealing with the ever evolving issues. 'out mental health has many dimensions:
Medical
Psychological
Social
Spiritual
Evironmental'
'Whilst the boundaries between what is deemed as sanity or insanity remain elastic and widely debated, we find - or are given - our own place on the spectrum; perhaps with a diagnosis, a treatment, a lifestyle change or a place of safety.'
This notion proposed by Bedlam I found to be particularly interesting as on my Art Foundation I previously explored the idea of how certain people have the power to label others insane and what gives them that right or authority?
The exhibition explored representations through a newspaper that explains a cafe that was set up for people who hear voices in their heads - schizophrenia, bipolar and other mental illnesses like this - and how this operated.
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