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Orgone Accumulator, wood, wool, iron wool and metallic plates. Copyright the artist.
Event
Wilhem Reich and The Orgone Energy
8 Oct 2017
Regular hours
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Free with admission
(admission costs on website)
https://freud.org.uk/visit/
Address
- 20 Maresfield Gardens
- Hampstead
- London
England - NW3 5SX
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Finchley Road
- Nearest tube: Finchley Road, 5 min walk from Museum
- Finchley Road & Frognal , 5 min walk from Museum
Artist's Talk and In-Conversation: Annie Ratti and Richard Noble.
About
Artist Annie Ratti will present her latest research on Wilhelm Reich’s investigations into orgone energy and his influence in psychoanalytic treatments of mental illness; developing one aspect of scientific inquiry that might be termed ‘deviant’ or marginal to mainstream science.
Her artistic research into Reich’s theories proceeds from the presumption that a fresh and critical understanding of scientific methods and scientific truth might be achieved by investigating what the scientific community has defined as its other, the unscientific.
Focusing on the processes of knowledge production at the margins of science, her investigation of Reich aims to show the brilliance and strangeness of his work, which while failing to meet the true conditions of the scientific and psychoanalytic communities nonetheless inspired savagely negative reactions from both. She will develop this irony, what it tells about both Reich and his scientific and psychoanalytic criticism; and that in the understanding and insight that were lost in the process of defining his work as non-scientific. The intention is to recover Reich’s insights through the artistic practice, which entails a sympathetic while at the same time critical engagement with his own discoveries.
The artist's 'Orgone Accumulator' pictured will be on display at the Museum on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th October.
