How
To Live
Bobby Baker; Professor Richard Hallam;
artsadmin, London.
Production Award: £100 000
Performance artist Bobby Baker will develop a new ‘therapy’
inspired by her experience of being treated with Dialectical Behavioural
Therapy (DBT), a form of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Working
in collaboration with psychologist Professor Richard Hallam, Baker will
explore the principles of DBT/CBT, the concept of teachable skills and
the very nature of psychology where it is focused on the examination and
transformation of the self.
The public launch of the project will take place at the Barbican Arts
Centre, London, in November 2004, encompassing a large-scale theatrical
production performance by Bobby Baker and a specially commissioned film.
A one-day symposium on ‘The Psychologization of Society’ (working
title) will accompany the event. A workshop version of the project will
also be developed for venues including mental health day centres, businesses
and educational institutions. A smaller version of the show and workshops
will be touring nationally and internationally from 2005.
Image
credit © Bobby
Baker
Bobby Baker as Pea, 2002.
Production
How
To Live
Projected
Worlds
Tomorrow Belongs to Me
The Fluent Heart
Research
and Development
Anatomy
and the Performance of Weight
Close
to the Wall
Ethereal
Bodies
Euthanasia and assisted suicide
Forecast:
Disruption
Karoshi
Marsyas: Running out of skin
New Chamber Opera
Punters: Auto-portraits of fairground thrill
Zero
Gravity