Ontological Algebra
Posted: June 28, 2011 | Project: Sanatorium | Tags: NYC, Ontological Algebra, Sanatorium |
Ontology is the philosophical study of the nature of being, existence or reality as such, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. . In other words it aims to answer the questions such as “Who I am?” “What is the purpose of my life?” etc. In this therapy we use algebra to cast into a formula the key components of you as a person. Also we may take one problem which troubles you and express that problem as an equation or a graph. We teach you as well to modify this equation by introducing or subtracting new values and operations.
CNN report on the Sanatorium
Posted: June 10, 2011 | Project: Sanatorium | Tags: Brooklyn, CNN, Guggenheim, NYC, Sanatorium, Sociatry, Therapy, Video |
Compatibility Test for Couples
Posted: June 5, 2011 | Project: Sanatorium | Tags: Brooklyn, Compatibility Test for Couples, Guggenheim, NYC, Sanatorium, Sociatry, Therapy |
The objective of this therapy is to discover the compatibility that one person has with another. To experiment this circumstance the individual has to follow the instructions below.
Ingredients:
Two large glasses.
A chopping board.
A blender or a juice extractor.
As many kinds of fruits and vegetables as possible.
Instructions:
1) Choose the fruit or vegetable with which you most identify yourself.
2) Choose the fruit or vegetable with which you most identify your partner.
3) Make juice out of both fruits or vegetables.
4) Mix them well.
5) Judge your compatibility as a couple by its taste.
Goodoo
Posted: June 4, 2011 | Project: Sanatorium | Tags: Brooklyn, Goodoo, Guggenheim, NYC, Sanatorium, Sociatry, Therapy |
Voodoo doll, or what in Haiti is called pwen, are magical surrogate for an intended target of sorcery whether for boon or for bane. This therapy is a positive iteration of the Voodoo doll, thus called “Goodoo”. Here we take a generic cloth doll and personalize it for it to resemble someone to whom you want to go some good. Then we use diverse materials, charms or tokens on different parts of the body to cause the specific good to that person. If you want someone to be kind at heart we may introduce a small bottle of honey in the chest of the Goodoo doll. If you want someone to finish a marathon we may add wings to his Goodoo doll shoes, etc.
Goodoo Report from Pedro Reyes on Vimeo.
Cityleaks
Posted: June 3, 2011 | Project: Sanatorium | Tags: Brooklyn, Cityleaks, Guggenheim, NYC, Sanatorium, Sociatry, Therapy |
This station offers a secular version of the ritual of confession. In exchange the person who leaves one secret will be allowed to hear someone else’s secret from the archive. Write a secret and put it in bottle, put in inside a large basin full of water. Pick another bottle and read the message.
The Vaccine Against Violence
Posted: June 3, 2011 | Project: Sanatorium | Tags: Brooklyn, Guggenheim, NYC, Sanatorium, Sociatry, Therapy |
To our minds a symbolic act has the equivalent power of a real act. Consequently, destroying symbolically may free us from the need of having to do a real aggression. Based on this premise, the patient faces a headless dummy. The participant is given a balloon and he has to blow it and draw on it the face of the person who has hurt him the most in his life. Then he is encouraged by the therapist to tell the dummy why he hates him so much and how much he was hurt by him and he is encouraged to get even by hitting the dummy until the balloon bursts. After this, he is given a placebo labeled as “Vaccine against violence”. In this way, the catharsis this therapy achieves makes redundant real acts of violence, freeing the subject from long-standing hatred.
For this therapy I consulted with Antanas Mockus (Colombian Mathematician and formar mayor of Bogota) a transcript of out conversations will be available in this blog soon.
Transmigration Express
Posted: June 1, 2011 | Project: Sanatorium | Tags: Brooklyn, Guggenheim, NYC, Sanatorium, Sociatry, Therapy |
Sanatorium Handout
Posted: June 1, 2011 | Project: Sanatorium | Tags: Brooklyn, Guggenheim, NYC, Sanatorium, Sociatry, Therapy |
Sanatorium Manifesto
Posted: June 1, 2011 | Project: Sanatorium | Tags: Brooklyn, Guggenheim, NYC, Sanatorium, Sociatry, Therapy || SANATORIUM | MANIFESTO IN PROGRESS | |
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[commentaries on the affinity and/or critical distance to the identifiable sources of the current therapies ]
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| SANATORIUM | takes | COGNITIVE SCIENCES |
| out of | BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATION | |
| and into | A THEATRE OF PROOF | |
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SANATORIUM |
takes |
SHAMANISM |
| out of | ETHNOGRAPHICAL SPECIFICITY | |
| and into | INSTRUCTION BASED ACTIVITIES | |
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SANATORIUM |
takes |
CURATORIAL PRACTICE |
| out of | THE SYSTEM OF ART OBJECTS | |
| and into | THE NARRATIVES OF THE SELF | |
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SANATORIUM |
takes |
ANGER MANAGMENT |
| out of | 12-STEP PROGRAMS | |
| and into | SOCIAL CATHARSIS | |
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SANATORIUM |
takes |
WORSHIP |
| out of | RELIGION | |
| and into | SECULAR MEANINGFULNESS | |
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SANATORIUM |
takes |
SORCERY |
| out of | THE GLOOM | |
| and into | RATIONAL INTENTIONALLITY | |
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SANATORIUM |
takes |
PROXEMICS |
| out of | ANTHROPOLOGY | |
| and into | WARM-UP ROUTINES | |
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SANATORIUM |
takes |
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY |
| out of | DIAGNOSTICS | |
| and into | TACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION | |
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SANATORIUM |
takes |
ONTHOLOGY |
| out of | PHYLOSOPHY | |
| and into | THE OCCAM’S RAZOR OF ALGEBRA | |
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SANATORIUM |
takes |
CONFESSION |
| out of | THE ECONOMY OF GUILT | |
| and into | INNOCUOUS HERSAY | |
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SANATORIUM |
takes |
SINESTHESIA |
| out of | POETICS | |
| and into | EXPERIMENTAL METHOD | |
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SANATORIUM |
takes |
ORACLES |
| out of | ESOTERISM | |
| and into | GAME THEORY | |
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SANATORIUM |
takes |
BODY LANGUAGE |
| out of | LOCAL CULTURAL SYNTAX | |
| and into | AN UNIVERSALTHESAURUS | |
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SANATORIUM |
takes |
VISUAL ORDINANCE |
| out of | ICONOGRAPHY | |
| and into | SELF-MADE MANDALAS | |
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SANATORIUM |
takes |
LITERARY FORM |
| out of | CULTURAL VALUE | |
| and into | A PERSONAL RHETORIC | |
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SANATORIUM |
takes |
MEDITATION |
| out of | SPIRITUALITY | |
| and into | AESTHETIC PURSUIT | |
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SANATORIUM |
takes |
RELATIONSHIP COUNSELLING |
| out of | SELF-HELP | |
| and into | PRACTICAL JOKES | |
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SANATORIUM |
AIMS TO BE A TOOL |
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| IN THE DEVELOPMENT | ||
| OF SOCIATRY *
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| *The technique of Healing Social Systems
Pedro Reyes Brooklyn, may 2011 |
The Museum Of Hypothetical Lifetimes
Posted: May 31, 2011 | Project: Sanatorium | Tags: Brooklyn, Guggenheim, Museum of Hypothetical Lifetimes, NYC, Sanatorium, Sociatry, Therapy |
In this activity there is a scale model of a museum; on the wall you’ll find shelves with a number of small figures with which you may find a formal realization to their internal worlds. The figures from which they can choose should represent as complete as possible a cross-section of all inanimate and animate beings which we encounter in the external world as well as in the inner imaginative world: trees, plants, stones, marbles, mosaics, wild and domesticated animals, ordinary women and men pursuing various activities, soldiers, fairytale figures, religious figures from diverse cultural spheres, houses, fountains, bridges, ships, vehicles, etc. The “therapist” will play the role of a curator who will help you to install a scale version of an exhibition about your life. Not only from your birth to the present, but including future events, key images and objects will be arranged in the space narrating in this way your past an future life as an exhibition.
Key to the galleries in The Museum of Hypotetical Lifetimes