LAS Post #7
Post 7:
For the first part of this post, I will be discussing the importance of the mental health hospital "El Borda". This hospital, located in Buenos Aires, Argentina is doing incredible things for their patients. They allow their patients to paint murals, create art, music, performances, radio shows, and more. They created a safe space for all of their patients to express themselves in many ways. I think this is what is lacking in most mental health and rehab facilities today. People need an outlet for creativity, a distraction from their own brain.
To add a sense of creativity to the hospital, There are several murals outside that the patients painted and the one that stuck out to me, was the one that reads, "it was always a center for the socially disappeared. Today we want it to be a space for active memory of art, culture and mental health". This mural is amazing because it explains exactly what the mental health hospital fosters with their creative, free environment, and that is imperative for anyone struggling with mental health. Here is a picture of this mural:
The next thing I am going to discuss is how street art has changed in Chile since the early 2000s to today. In Valparaiso Chile, there is a lot of graffiti and street art. People are very open to it there, although, it used to be even less controlled than it is now. In the video "Global street art", one of the artists talks about how street art and graffiti was very easy to do in the city, because no one cared, and it was less "controlled". But, it is still a very widely-known thing there today, people come from all over to paint there. Although you have to get permission from the people who own the building, but it is a lot more strict today if you do not get permission, people will literally paint over your work. So it has become less artistic and more institutionalized, people have more control over it now, when before, people didn't really care.
The next thing I am going to discuss is how street art has changed in Chile since the early 2000s to today. In Valparaiso Chile, there is a lot of graffiti and street art. People are very open to it there, although, it used to be even less controlled than it is now. In the video "Global street art", one of the artists talks about how street art and graffiti was very easy to do in the city, because no one cared, and it was less "controlled". But, it is still a very widely-known thing there today, people come from all over to paint there. Although you have to get permission from the people who own the building, but it is a lot more strict today if you do not get permission, people will literally paint over your work. So it has become less artistic and more institutionalized, people have more control over it now, when before, people didn't really care.
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