Manifesto Brutal is increasingly collaborating with the theatre company Nontantoprecisi, a group founded within Italy’s last asylum-concentration camp. Together, we are imagining anti-psychiatric living experiments, CONATUS — life that lives. Manifesto Brutal provided an opportunity to explore what illness has led us to do: 24-hour schizo-analysis, transforming symptoms, imagining worlds, writing, studying, weaving, singing, and ranting. From the bed to the stage and back again. We have a desire to stand side by side and respond collectively to the central question of Johanna Hedva’s Theory of the Sick Woman: ‘How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can’t get out of bed?’. In the dream of taking a boat to the southern Mediterranean., we want to try being bodies that encounter other bodies and decolonise ourselves. We are proposing this workshop as an attempt to give ourselves a voice through a language that is not our own: the colonial language of the last century. We will stammer our way through it, because we believe in the necessity of forming alliances with friends and comrades to help us subvert the increasingly suffocating present. We are attempting to create a periodical publication called CONATUS, which is still in development but already part of all of us.
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