Jan Hoek / Mental Superpowers sculpture Thinking Conditioning through Practice

Thinking Conditioning through Practice

contributing the essay “So Many Dark Gifts” to this photo-rich volume exploring the group’s varied

It brings to the fore how she employed fashion as a tool for bodily reinvention and art as a vehicle for personal and political expression — highlighting how she rejected categorization to embrace hybridity

It’s where Brigitte and I meet

Jan Hoek / Mental Superpowers sculpture Thinking Conditioning through PracticeLady GaGa, Diane Arbus, Vincent van Gogh, Kurt Cobain the list of geniuses with mental health issues is long and well known. But how do the two relate to one another? Or, to rephrase the question, can a mental illness also be seen as a superpower? To answer this question Jan Hoek spent three months living in a psychiatric hospital in Brooklyn, collaborating with the hospitals clients and other unique individuals he met in New York. This comic book,