{"id":2305,"date":"2016-03-07T23:08:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T04:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2016-03-07T23:08:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T04:08:09","slug":"madlove-a-designer-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/madlove-a-designer-asylum\/","title":{"rendered":"Madlove: A Designer Asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/content\/dam\/slate\/blogs\/the_eye\/2015\/03\/16\/150318_EYE_MadlovePrototype1.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1065\" height=\"799\" \/><\/p>\n<p>the vacuum cleaner, a UK-based art collective, recently ran an exhibition called Madlove: A Designer Asylum, in which they\u00a0crafted an exhibit based on people with mental illness&#8217;s description of their ideal asylum. James Leadbitter, the lead artist behind the project and someone with experience in the asylum system, has said that since the exhibition he has been a consultant on the construction of actual new asyla, not just this model in museums. What I love about Madlove is that it not only challenges our current models for asyla but also challenges who\u00a0museum&#8217;s audiences are. When most people picture museum-going audiences, they may not picture those with mental illness, but the exhibit suggests that they, too, have a space in our museums.\u00a0A description of the project is available\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_eye\/2015\/03\/19\/madlove_a_designer_asylum_from_james_leadbitter_the_vacuum_cleaner_is_a.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/content\/dam\/slate\/blogs\/the_eye\/2015\/03\/16\/150318_EYE_MadloveWorkshops1.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1065\" height=\"828\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the vacuum cleaner, a UK-based art collective, recently ran an exhibition called Madlove: A Designer Asylum, in which they\u00a0crafted an exhibit based on people with mental illness&#8217;s description of their ideal asylum. James Leadbitter, the lead artist behind the project and someone with experience in the asylum system, has said that since the exhibition he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/madlove-a-designer-asylum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Madlove: A Designer Asylum&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":938,"featured_media":3096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[462,912,406,913,909,911,845,910],"coauthors":[372],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aesthetics-art-history-and-cultural-institutions","tag-accessibility","tag-asylum","tag-collectives","tag-design","tag-madlove","tag-mental-illness","tag-museums","tag-the-vacuum-cleaner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/938"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2306,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions\/2306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}