Reflecting their research into R.D. Laing’s anti-psychiatry movement, the latest work by the London-based Israeli duo Pil and Galia Kollectiv, titled Progress Report from the Strategic Sanctuary for the Destruction of Free Will, 2016, is an exhibition and ongoing piece. On the ground floor, a monitor screens scenes from a film being made—on the day I visited the gallery, I watched performers dressed in neo-futuristic costumes of white cardboard outlined in black, re-enacting the jerky, robotic movements taken from video footage of patients undergoing psychedelic counseling and other forms of radical psychotherapy treatment.
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