Acts of resistance is composed of performative and visual research that explores different acts of resistance and liberation around the historical visuality of mental health. The author proposes the potential of the movement of the body as an analytical and propositional tool in the decoding of gestures, exploring ways of inhabiting the body that allow us to interfere with the normativity of everyday movements.

The project looks at the experience of Trieste during the years of the Italian psychiatric reform to focus on the possibilities of circulation and representation that emerged in the spaces of exchange generated in this context, and through the artistic practice that traversed them. It includes a movement laboratory that experiments with those gestures that were corrected or denied, to use them for both the recovery and affirmation of rights. Finally, images generated by artificial intelligence open a reflection on the possibilities and limitations of AI as an ally for the motivations of the project. 

This edition is the result of a collaboration between the Centre d’Art La Panera de Lleida and Sala d’Art Jove.