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International symposium: Disability art studios: new sources for Art Brut?
September 30 2024 09:00
Palais de Beaulieu, Salle Saint Moritz Av. Bergières 10 1004 Lausanne
Admission is free, but registration is required :
art.brut@lausanne.ch
The Collection de l’Art Brut will hold an international symposium to coincide with the solo exhibitions of works by Pascal Vonlanthen and Clemens Wild, which run from 14 June to 27 October 2024.
The event will feature art brut specialists, studio directors and the artists they support, and cultural and social policymakers from the City of Lausanne and the Canton of Vaud. The one-day symposium will provide insights into the workings of organisations in Belgium, France and Switzerland that support artists with disabilities and showcase their work. In recent years, these studios have also provided a rich seam of new artist discoveries for museums and galleries with an interest in art brut.
The symposium will look back on the history of disability art studios, most of which started life in psychiatric hospitals – places outside conventional art circles – and explore their early links with art brut. This will also be an opportunity to challenge the criteria by which art brut is categorised in light of the fact that these creative spaces are “supervised”, to compare the various models by which these studios operate, and to examine the support they offer to the artists they accommodate and represent.