AIBR http://www.aibr.org Registro AIBR, SSCI text/plain; charset=utf-8 TY - JOUR JO - ARIES, Anuario de Antropología Iberoamericana TI - The Psychiatric Patient Work as a Contact Zone. Some Anthropological Reflections on the Art Brut Collections in Turin VL - IS - 2018 PB - Asociación AIBR, Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red T2 - ARIES, Anuario de Antropología Iberoamericana PY - 2018 M1 - SN - 2530-7843 UR - https://aries.aibr.org/articulo/2019/20/204/the-psychiatric-patient-work-as-a-contact-zone-some-anthropological-reflections-on-the-art-brut-collections-in-turin DO - doi:2018.AR0021310 AU - Balma-Tivola, Cristina A2 - A3 - A4 - A5 - A6 - A7 - SP - LA - Esp DA - 20/09/2019 KW - arte, museo, art brut, patrimonio AB - Spanish: Our paper takes into account the Art Brut / Irregular Art artifacts collections, made in Turin since late late 19th to nowadays, now held in different museums as well as in private institutions of the town, in order to to offer useful prompts to recent discussions in the anthropology of art on the matter of the ethnographic artefact. To this aim, in our research we analised the following issues: 1. What is the status of the work (evidence, art, art brut) made by the psychiatric patients? Can features, objectives and variables of the work help us defining it? 2. What are the (aesthetic, social, economical) circuits in which the works are included? Our communication will offer an overview on the history of Turin psychiatry with reference to this art production both before its definition (the collections conserved in the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the University of Turin) and after it (psychiatric hospitals, Basaglia ateliers, art dealers demand), focussing on the case-studies of some objects, conceived as 'contact zones', useful to highlight possible trajectories of meanings and relationships of this material production Moreover, our discussion will include the results of an experimental laboratory we held in Turin with different stakeholders (psychologists, educators, psychiatrists, art therapists, artists). English: Our paper takes into account the Art Brut / Irregular Art artifacts collections, made in Turin since late late 19th to nowadays, now held in different museums as well as in private institutions of the town, in order to to offer useful prompts to recent discussions in the anthropology of art on the matter of the ethnographic artefact. To this aim, in our research we analised the following issues: 1. What is the status of the work (evidence, art, art brut) made by the psychiatric patients? Can features, objectives and variables of the work help us defining it? 2. What are the (aesthetic, social, economical) circuits in which the works are included? Our communication will offer an overview on the history of Turin psychiatry with reference to this art production both before its definition (the collections conserved in the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the University of Turin) and after it (psychiatric hospitals, Basaglia ateliers, art dealers demand), focussing on the case-studies of some objects, conceived as 'contact zones', useful to highlight possible trajectories of meanings and relationships of this material production Moreover, our discussion will include the results of an experimental laboratory we held in Turin with different stakeholders (psychologists, educators, psychiatrists, art therapists, artists). CR - Copyright; 2018 Asociación AIBR, Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red ER -