Patients, individuals with special needs – ranging from the mentally ill to the desabled – are groups enclosed in a hermetic circle of medical
practices that take place within the walls of instrumentalised institutions – hospitals, mental hospitals and rehabilitation centres. Since these institutions are regarded as humane, they are rarely subjected to critical analysis, a fact which also has to do with the powerfull stronghold of taboos still surrounding illness. Ailing bodies, the social and psychological implications of the way a society relates to illness and carriers of disease are the topics of the Hospital Project, adresses from an artistic perspective through a series of international performances and lectures.
