Conversation between artist Jakob Jakobsen and curator Lisa Rosendahl about Jakobsen's contribution to the exhibition After Monoculture, which is closing on Sunday 18 June. Jakobsen's work seeks to make visible the violent roots of contemporary Western mental health care focussed solely on the individual, searching instead for collective approaches and ways to understand illness as societal and relational.

Sofia Cerqueira har i en periode overtaget Hospital Prison University Radio og det er med stor glæde og sorg at vi her præsenterer hendes radiomontage 'En samtale om at miste hukommelsen'. Sofia er en skrivende og skabende person som selv har haft berøring med det psykiatriske system.

Programmet handler om mistet hukommelse. Hvordan det kan opleves, når minder forsvinder, når man bliver svigtet af sin egen hjerne og af det sundhedssystemsystem, der skulle passe på en.

I programmet fortæller Sofia, Jamila, Anne og Mikkel om deres egne oplevelser med mistet hukommelsen. Undervejs læser Fine Gråbøl op fra sin roman Ungeenheden, der udkommer i foråret 2021.

Varighed 60 min.

In this episode recorded in the beginning of August we are discussing the urged for normalisation offered by the brief retreat of the virus in Europe during the Summer. What we are experiencing is an obsession with going back to the same destructive normality we were briefly relieved from during lock down. Like the irrational drive to go back to a violent partner despite knowing that it will go wrong there was a general push for restoring the stressfull and exploitative order of capitalist production. This death drive can only be countered by mass general strike and the abolition of capitalist institutions including the mental hospital.

Social Crisis! Mental Crisis! is a series of conversations on Communism and Mental Health in times of pandemia between the artists Sophie Carapetian based in London and Jakob Jakobsen based in Copenhagen. We will be back approx. once a week with occasional guests.

For our eighth broadcast we are joined by our comrade Sacha Kahir. Together we discuss the difficult subject of suicide. Our conversation explores suicide as bound up with, and as a result of social and economic processes - we discuss this against normative understandings of suicide that emphasise the failure of an individual life. Our conversation proposes new ways of thinking through the phenomena of suicide: we ask instead what does it mean to be suicided by society. We place emphasis on the relations between capitalism, suicide and proletarian life. This episode is dedicated to our fallen and dearly loved comrade Sean Bonney, a poet who refused, opposed and resisted austerity, refusing to accept the imiserating relations of capitalism. Who, along with other poets mentioned in the discussion and innumerable victims suicided by a society built on status and profit, we demand justice that can only be its abolition. As this is a huge topic we offer only some initial steps... staggering and stammering in that direction.

For our seventh broadcast we are joined by our comrade Silvia Federici. Together we sketch out commonalities between social and historical processes of exclusion - in the form of the witch-hunt, and the contemporary apparatuses of psychiatric diagnosis and treatment of all those pathologised as mentally ill and clinically insane. The broadcast draws on both scholarly and first hand experiential knowledge situating the violence of social exclusion in the contexts of gender, race, and class formation, and as a necessary structural condition of the reproduction of capital.

Social Crisis! Mental Crisis! is a series of conversations on Communism and Mental Health in times of pandemia between the artists Sophie Carapetian based in London and Jakob Jakobsen based in Copenhagen. We will be back approx. once a week with occasional guests.

Medication is the theme of our 6th episode. We discuss what all the psychopharma we take do to us, how they change our personalities and disrupt our wellbeing. We speak of how pills are ideological apparatuses solely aimed at making us able to attend work Monday mornings and feel nothing.

Social Crisis! Mental Crisis! is a series of conversations on Communism and Mental Health in times of pandemia between the artists Sophie Carapetian based in London and Jakob Jakobsen based in Copenhagen. We will be back approx. once a week with occasional guests.

Lyt til den afsluttende diskussion af udstillingen 'Tegning af lejre' med Arkivets redaktionsgruppe bestående af Nermin Durakovic, Farhiya Khalid, Mikkel Bolt, Jeppe Wedel-brandt, Marie Northroup og jeg (Jakob Jakobsen). Først diskuterer vi hvad corona-krisen betyder for folk i lejrene og hvordan fjenden i den offentlige debat ikke længere er 'de fremmede' med en virus. Efterfølgende opsumerer vi på vores diskussioner over de sidste 5 måneder i forhold til vores målsætning om at lejrene skal lukkes.

Listen to our MayDay Special on work. Fuck work, fuck the unions! Let's unionise the poor, the paperless, the mentally ill, the idle, the migrants, the curriers, the Amazon workers, the sex workers, the unemployed, the disabled - or nothing!

Social Crisis! Mental Crisis! is a series of conversations on Communism and Mental Health in times of pandemia between the artists Sophie Carapetian based in London and Jakob Jakobsen based in Copenhagen. We will be back once a week with occasional guests.

Listen to the fourth episode on disability. This time we have invited visual artist Anja and sex worker Nilufer Guler to join us. Anja makes art and does informal communist research in Oakland, California, Nulifer is living in London where Sophie also is based. Jakob is joining the conversation from Copenhagen. We talk about disability and work and our dependencies on capitalist time.

Social Crisis! Mental Crisis! is a series of conversations on Communism and Mental Health in times of pandemia between the artists Sophie Carapetian based in London and Jakob Jakobsen based in Copenhagen. We will be back once a week with occasional guests.

Listen to the third episode of the radio show Social Crisis! Mental Crisis! with reflections on the notion of care, both within the psychiatric ward as well as within a communist perspective. We talk about care as reproductive labour within the strict hierarchy of the hospital in contrast to communist mutual care within self-organised hospitals and clinics.

Social Crisis! Mental Crisis! is a series of conversations on Communism and Mental Health in times of pandemia between the artists Sophie Carapetian based in London and Jakob Jakobsen based in Copenhagen. We will be back once a week with occasional guests.