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Artist Anna Schuleit is a former Radclife fellow whose work often consists of conceptual installations, and she said her time at the Institute was a fertile one for her work...
...found the Radcliffe Institute to be, first and foremost, a warm, nourishing setting of independent research, pursued by scholars from every discipline,” Schuleit wrote in an e-mail. “As a visual artist, I experienced a year of truly interdisciplinary work, inspired by my exposure to the other fellows’s work and works in progress...
...Having two research undergraduate assistants, who supported me throughout the various phases of my work, was a true gift,” she added. Schuleit also drew on the interdisciplinarity of Radcliffe when she needed assistance with one of her installations...
Though artists are often famous for walking the fine line between genius and insanity, the latest MacArthur Award winner Anna Schuleit has taken this phrase to its literal conclusion—transforming deserted psychiatric wards into works of art. A graduate of RISD and Dartmouth and currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, the German-born Anna Schuleit decided to create art from state mental hospitals because of her own fascination with the history of psychiatry. “What happens to people in their society when other people tell them they’re not sane anymore...
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