Introduction: creative perspectives on lived experience / Jill Bennett (University of New South Wales) ; Revolution *Untethered / Clive Parkinson (Director of Arts for Health, Manchester Metropolitan University) ; *The Revolution will not be Pathologised / Dolly Sen (artist/activist, UK) ; *On Black Lives Matter, Mental Health and Poetry / Claudia Rankine (Yale University) with Evelyn Araluen (Overland journal, Melbourne)
2. Crisis. *Crisis and control / Renata Kokanovic (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University) and Indigo Daya (mad activist) ; *Discoverism Madlove / James Leadbitter (artist and activist, UK) with Vanessa Bartlett (Melbourne University)
3. Perception. *Open Dialogue: The eradication of schizophrenia / David Woods and Jon Haynes (Ridiculismus, Theatre company, UK) ; *The Visit: collaborative confabulation Feeling# / Gail Kenning, Jill Bennett, Volker Kuchelmeister (UNSW) ; *A mythical legend performed straight from a heart still pulsing with pain / Bryony Kimmings (performer and script writer, UK) ; *Man in the Log: feeling trapped from the inside / Uti Kulintjaku, Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantatjara Yankunytjatjara [NPY] Women's Council (NPY Lands/Alice Springs)
4. Justice. *Designing reparations / Pumla Gobdodo?́öMadikizela (Stellenbosch University/Harvard), Andrea Durbach (Australian Human Rights Institute) ; *Writing and survival on Manus Island / Behrouz Boochani (independent writer and former asylum seeker, University of Canterbury, New Zealand) and Omid Tofighian (Iran/Australia) ; *Resilience and refugee lives Mechanisms of change / Lydia Gitau (Kenya/Australia)
5. Mechanisms for Change. *The logic of mechanistic thinking / Siri Hustvedt (novelist and essayist, US) ; *Psychosocial aesthetics and affordances / Lynn Froggett (University of Central Lancashire, UK), Lizzie Muller, Jill Bennett ; *The para-sympathetic trigger: bottom-up art practice / Anita Glesta (artist, US) with biologist Robert M. Sapolsky (Stanford University) and Steve Porges (Distinguished University Scientist at the Kinsey Institute, Indiana University Bloomington and professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in North Carolina, USA)
6. Suicide and self-harm. *Edge of the present: immersive media, suicidality and the neurophenomenology of future thinking / Katherine Boydell (UNSW; Toronto), Alex Davies, Jill Bennett ; *Suicide and belonging / Erminia Colucci (Middlesex Uni, UK) and Mic Eales (lived experience activist) ; *Seeing into Self Wounding / Micaela Cronin (RMIT) and Naomi Chua
7. Trauma. *On the workings of aesthetic intelligence / Lynn Froggett (UCLan, UK) in conversation with Christopher Bollas ; *A Dense Mass of Indecipherable Fear: The Experiential (Non)Narration of Trauma and Madness / Thembi Soddell (independent artist, Melbourne) ; *Mad women, in their own words: reworking oral testimonies from the British Library's 'Mental Health Testimony Project' / Amanda McDowell (independent artist, UK/University of Kent)
8. Listening. *Listen_Up: Violence, transgenerational trauma and deep listening in Aboriginal communities / Judy Atkinson (Emeritus Professor, Central Queensland University; Jiman/Bundjalung people, Australia) ; *The Not Knowing of Another: Project Art Works / Chloe Watfern, Kate Adams (Project Art Works, Hastings, UK) ; * Public address systems / Sherre deLys (artist, Sydney/US), Jon Owen (pastor CEO, Wayside Chapel, born Malaysia), Russell Meares (psychiatrist; Emeritus, Uni of Sydney), Victoria Spence (celebrant, bereavement counsellor, performance artist) Listening professions Endpiece Jill Bennett, Renata Kokanovic, Indigo Daya ; Curating experience: The Big Anxiety
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