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Emma Palumbo - This is a Mad Resistance Story

This is a Mad Resistance Story

Meaghan Stringer - Hmmm Podcast: Trope or Truth

Hmmm Podcast: Trope or Truth

Audio

Turner Kathleen - CSX Movement - Infographic

The C/S/X Movement: A brief history and History of Madness: Understanding is the first step

Illustration

Photograph of a mask with eyes closes

Mask With No Name

Object

Mysterious masked person standing in a park trail

Lift Me Up

Video

Fantasy chess board with faceless chess pieces. Two large hands of the players appear above the chess board.

Gods and Demons

Audio

Still image of sihouletted woman standing in front of a glass block wall.

Irit Shimrat

Video

Title frame of video

Diagnosing the Simpsons

Video

Intro page of pdf.

The ABC Book of Mental Illnesses

Object

A series of 3 drawings below the drawing "yet", (from Left to Right): A drawing of a window with a woman working at a desk and the words "mad people can work" below it, a second drawing of a window with the silhouettes of people inside along with a list of job titles behind them with the words " mad people do work" below it, and a final Image of a window of a man fixing water pipes, accompanied by words such as community coming out of the water, with the words " mad people should work" below it.

The Working Mad

Illustration

An art peice where there is a repetition of images where people are sitting at office cubicles facing each other, with the backside of a single person standing in the foreground and a wall of text in the background

Calling in depressed today

Mixed

Digital image of the x-ray of a skull

Hysteric

Mixed

Black and white photo of office building with colour wigwam setup in front of building.

What does not belong?

Illustration

Look After Yourself...

Look After Yourself: A critique of the treatment of people suffering from “mental illness”

Video

No image available

Blue and White

Audio

Winnie the Pooh characters

Drawn Disorders: The relation of cartoon characters to mental disorders

Mixed

Coloured butterfly rorschach images printed over faces

Now I’m Mad: A Rorschach Butterfly Collection of Self Portraits

Illustration

Straight jacket on hanger

Untitled

Textile

Painting of cookie Jar with hands

Snack Time!

Illustration

No image available

Taking Back the Crazy

Audio

Photo of a person with coloured markings covering their face

Untitled

Photo

Video still of a room with the text "it's fine it's fine" overlaid on top of the still

My Porogative: Mad Positive

Video

Two video stills of a man and a woman

Frailty

Video

Painting of human faces accompanied by human hearts, DNA, a brain, and Pills

Ritalin as a psychological rapist

Illustration

Poster with a female face.

Labels

Mixed

Three artboards

Luna C and the Institutional Eyes

Mixed

Purple post of Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Greatness is Ill

Illustration

Collage

Madness and Creativity

Illustration

Photo of a poster board

Madness as a social construct

Object

Acrylic painting

Drowning in Shattered Lucidity

Illustration

Photo of a woman with caution tape

Eclat: Escaping the Psychiatric System

Photo

Smeared painting

Use your imagination!

Illustration

Various patches of fabric quilted together

Puzzled

Textile

A group of women laughing in a Kitchen

Womb Rage!

Mixed

A decorative pattern on top of a woman to the right

Untitled

Illustration

Ink drawing of a street

Untitled

Illustration

text in white shape

Untitled

Mixed

PDF cover of a cookbook

The Madness Diet Book

Mixed

Board game

The Mad Life

Object

PDF cover with "SURVIVOR" text

SURVIVOR

Mixed

Cover of pdf with rorschach image

Fashion Madness

Mixed

Face split in half

Choices

Object

Person on a couch

Rooted through time and space

Illustration

Photograph of a sewn straight jacket.

Corset Straight Jacket

Textile

Screenshot of video

Because I am a mental patient

Video

Visual History pdf cover

Visual History

Mixed

Manipulated image of actor Christian Bale

I think my mask of sanity is about to slip

Illustration

Illustration of an eye with the words "are you mad".

Are you… Mad?

Illustration

Pencil crayon and watercolour illustration of a girl.

Untitled

Illustration

Collage with images of Britney Spears' face over the course of her career

Bipolar Britney

Illustration

Illustration of St. Thomas Regional Mental Health Care

For a better future

Illustration

Sculpture of a character

Bob the sculpture

Object

Pencil sketch of a very skinny woman.

I need to lose weight

Illustration

Girl in straight jacket

Freedom

Mixed

A girl controlled as a puppet by a giant hand

Powerless Against Psychiatry? No!

Illustration

Illustration of women looking into mirrors

Untitled

Illustration

Illustration of puppet on stage

Invisible Strings

Mixed

Illustration of trees in Autumn

Forward

Illustration

Acrylic portrait on canvas

The Yellow Wallpaper

Illustration

Illustration of woman in purple dress

Trapped

Illustration

Portrait illustration

Andy

Illustration

3D eyeball on a table with 2D illustrations around it.

Untitled

Mixed

Digital informational image

DSM-5 and the Medicalized Grief in Numbers

Illustration

White silhouette of people with mental health facts printed inside.

Different Approached, Different Labels

Illustration

Ceramic on glass that forms a face

Untitled

Object

Puzzle illustration with a piece that does not fit.

Sunday Afternoon

Illustration

Leather and metal piece

Clincial-chic

Textile

Several self-portraits of a girl with various facial expressions

The Four Humors

Mixed

Photo collage of people

Mental Illness Examined

Mixed

Pencil drawing of rorschach image and two hands printed on top of a pattern

Rejection and Triumph

Illustration

No image available

Insanity

Audio

Untitled

Video

Digital image of a brick wall, an eye and a poem about madness.

Untitled

Illustration

Abstract illustration with Apple symbols.

Apple Madness

Illustration

Olden styled advertisement with a woman.

Maskitolâ„¢

Mixed

An illustration of a woman with a bomb strapped to her body with a book in her face and eyes in the background.

Compos Mentis

Illustration

A dress made of multiple different fabrics and patterns displayed on a manikin.

A Fashion of the Mind

Mixed

Abstract stencil.

Mad Ham

Illustration

A figure in a fetal position with words written over it.

Room full of headaches

Illustration

An abstract figure in a stance.

The Struggle

Illustration

Watercolour painting of psychotropic drugs

Untitled

Illustration

Figure wearing a cow suit.

Udderly Impossible

Illustration

Photo of a woman duplicated in different clothing and words on paper attached to her.

Wrapped in words that aren’t mine

Photo

Into the Blue

Illustration

Man being interviewed.

Recovery

Video

Illustration of a figure in a tornado of books and formulas.

Madness of School

Illustration

Mock magazine article about Britney Spears.

Fears for Spears

Mixed

A clay figure in a plexiglass box.

Freak in a box

Object

A sculpture of a face attached to a ball of newspaper with a pill in its mouth .

Untitled

Object

Newspaper collage.

Breaking News

Illustration

Abstract photograph

Diagnosis – INSANE

Photo

Digital image of a girl with the words "SPOT THE MADNESS" printed above.

Spot the Madness

Photo

Four quadrants with different illustrations of people in them.

What is Crazy?

Illustration

An informational print with text and graphics about Twilight.

The Twilight Madness

Illustration

A digital image of a subway train and platform with an overlay of a woman's head screaming.

Untitled

Mixed

An illustration of a brain with a keyhole and a figure with a key.

Storying the experience of madness

Object

An illustration of three woman in different phases.

The Three Phases of (my) Lunacy

Illustration

A chalk illustration of a DSM robot.

DSM Bot

Illustration

An illustration of multiple characters in a 9 by 9 square display

Normalcy Syndicated

Illustration

A digital image of a figure wrapped in a white fabric with hand pointing at it in the background

Stigma

Mixed

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