London, Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop, The Ingram Prize 2024, 14 – 17 November 2024
“’Thorazine’ is an imagined portrait of the first person administered Thorazine (Chlorpromazine) – an anti-psychotic medication first trialled as an anaesthetic and antihistamine – for behaviour modification.
He is described in ‘Health Communism’, in a chapter covering the policing of difference through psychiatric norms, as a 57-year-old male labourer who had been admitted ‘for making improvised political speeches in cafes, becoming involved in fights with strangers, and for … walking around the street with a pot of flowers on his head preaching his love of liberty.’”
