Personal Effects by visual artist Alan Counihan was based on the institutional archives and the belongings of dead or discharged patients from Grangegorman (St. Brendan’s) Psychiatric Hospital, Dublin. This research process took form as a site-specific installation in the old hospital with further Dublin installations in Culture Box, Temple Bar and in Axis, Ballymun.

Personal Effects by visual artist Alan Counihan was based on the institutional archives and the belongings of dead or discharged patients from Grangegorman (St. Brendan’s) Psychiatric Hospital, Dublin. This research process took form as a site-specific installation in the old hospital with further Dublin installations in Culture Box, Temple Bar and in Axis, Ballymun.

- March 05, 2015

http://www.artsandhealth.ie/case-studies/personal-effects-a-history-of-possession/

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