Mental Hospital at Weyburn An Archaeology of Madness - Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2013
- Explore the abandoned Weyburn mental institution where the word psychedelic was coined as artists, performers, former staff and patients resurrect its stigmatized history. This documentary weaves together the on-site art installations and performances of a group of talented artists, actors and musicians with the memories of former staff and patients, archival film and photos. For more information visit www.3rdeyemedia.ca/pages2/weyb...
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This is a extremely beautiful masterpiece. Thank you for this.❤
I just found out that my second Great grandfather was in this mental hospital in 1926 he died in 1940 and was buried in the hospital grounds.
Well Done ! I look forward to parts 2&3! I have lived in the area for most of my life and remember going out there for an appointment, Such and eerie place with so many secrets untold. I am thankful that someone has taken the time and made the effort to tell the story...
I met a woman who was told by her father, a few years before his passing, that she had two uncles living in the Weyburn hospital. The time was the Depression, 1930s, a large farm family, no money for food, and two boys were handed over to the hospital. The brothers had spent their entire lives inside the institution and, at the time of the disclosure, were old men trained as barbers, working with scissors and such, never diagnosed as mentally ill. In effect, the hospital had warehoused these individuals .... and how many others, she had wondered?
Thanks for your comment. Very interesting story. A lot of sad things happened there.
my mother and father were nurses there. So many stories.
My grandmother was a nurse here! She had always hated how the patients were treated.
My ex mother in law was a nurse here also. She was dosed with LSD.
Interesting, thank you for putting this together. Certainly every defunct institution has a story to tell... I found the male psych nurse fascinating.
Is there any information on the north Battleford hospital ?
My grandmother was in that place and I work for brady's oil feild and was on site while it was being torn down not a good feeling
It’s not an easy place to deal with. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Who was that people? From where?
This building and story has always fascinated me I’m very disappointed it was demolished before I could ever see it
Very talented musicians
Does anyone know where its located?
It was in the town of Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada. It’s been demolished. Thanks for watching.
Can anyone confirm that there was a TB annex in existence in 1923?
I’ve heard people say the grounds where the hospital was is haunted. There’s houses on the property now and a few homeowners have said they have experienced paranormal activity. Not sure if this all true.
Interesting comment about the new homes. Thanks for watching.
Funny guy
Did u help or u was killing?
It killed a lot of people with bizarre experiments. Drug overdose, electrocution, lobotomy and other stuff I think
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This place has always scared the shit out of me.
I worked there. You should be scared.
U promise Hope? To your country?
My grandfather was sent there and died a week later.....
Another very sad story from Weyburn. Thanks for sharing.
OMG what a brian Washed
So sad to sww this place now lol get it
Щоб ви здихали в болях від тих ,що ви розбили серця
Good video minus the actors, found that very dumb.
Andy Houston
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This is a documentary of a live multimedia event entitled *The Weyburn Project*. The purpose of the project was for artists - actors, visual artists, video artists, and so forth - to animate the site of the former Weyburn Hospital. Without the actors, and the rest of the artists in this project, there would be no documentary that you are viewing here. To say that you found the acting was "dumb" is to completely misunderstand the project and the documentary of it that you are seeing here.
@@andyhouston625 I wanted to see a mental hospital and hear stories about it, I did not overly expect a play on it. I think is what King Johnson means.
@@Garkin58Hi Tyler, thanks for this message. Sorry for the slow reply. I guess I would begin with asking you why do you want to "see a mental hospital"? And why do you want to "hear stories about it"? As artists, making this project, we began with similar questions. We worked hard to develop a meaningful, trusting relationship with those who controlled this property, so that we could respond to, and reveal the truth of its history. So, for someone to come along and state that what we were doing was "very dumb" leaves me no option but to say King Johnson (really, the name says it all) is a superficial jerk.
@@andyhouston9836 yeah, but the performances acting mentally ill have not aged well. Great job at stereotyping, though 👏
Obviously, don’t mind because this is an old project, but there’s really no reason to defend the acting. Otherwise, it is very informative.
This project would have just been effective (if not more) by keeping everything except for the poor acting about pretending to know what severe mental illness looks like.
@@giblets4510 Hi Gus, thanks for your comment on these videos. Yes, this project happened twenty-years ago. A lot has changed, and I appreciate that you've addressed this fact. What's problematic is your sarcastic comment about stereotyping mental illness in our work because you only know of this project via RUclips, and as such you have little understanding of the performance that these videos attempt to represent. Please, understand that there is a difference between experiencing a work like this live and a documentary of it on RUclips. Actually, the "great job of stereotyping" was in our representation of staff and medical professionals who worked at Weyburn, from 1922 to 1989. In this project, we deliberately chose to not represent those who were patients. The actors (whether you appreciate their approach to this work or not) were representing staff and medical professionals who worked at Weyburn, and I have the documentation about these people. They were certainly eccentric individuals.
Regarding stereotypes, I would ask you to reconsider your understanding of this term. The negative connotations to this approach first arose in the 19th century in England, where stereotype began to refer to authenticity in art: The standardized figurative sense of an image, formula, or phrase cast in a rigid mould. During the twentieth century, stereotype continued to accrue disparaging definitions: "An oversimplified opinion, prejudiced attitude or uncritical judgement; a set of wide generalizations about the psychological characteristics of a group or class of people; a rigid, biased perception of an object, animal, individual or group; to reproduce or perpetuate in an unchanging or standardized form; cause to conform to a fixed or preconceived type."
I appreciate that the etymology of stereotype refers to solidity. These inherited social shapes, images and even prejudices can be entered and embodied, remembered and re-awaken. If we think of a stereotype as three-dimensional, as a container, isn't it encouraging to interact with substantial shapes in the hyper-ephemeral art of the theatre? Isn't - as we set out to do - 'putting a fire' under the inherited stereotypes a very clear and specific action in a field which is so much about remembering? The task is suddenly so concrete, so definite. A stereotype is a container of memory. If these culturally transmuted containers are entered, heated up and awakened, perhaps we might, in the heat of the interaction, reaches the original messages, meanings and histories they embody.
Finally, I'd strongly encourage you to re-think your understanding of whether or not those of us creating this project know what it is like to experience "severe mental illness". There was a reason why we were drawn to Weyburn.
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U destroyed a lots of life sotbs
Immigration?
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