Here is the link to the exhibit at the Muza museum. I was very excited about going to this exhibit.  The idea of field hospital as art made a great deal of sense to me – for example, the concept of triage as an aesthetic as well as an emergency medical concern.  But I was gently disappointed.  I mean, it was fun – just like being in a hospital but with no medical purpose.  You enter, take a number, and wait until your number is called.  Then you pick a subject you want to empathize with.  I picked transgender.  And you get a chance to release your emotions – a sealed room to scream in – according to the recorded instructions.  Then you go to the treatment chairs where you are shown a video of a person on the subject, and another video entitled second opinion.  Then you go to a space where you answer questions on a computer about in what space you feel unsafe – and then you’re out.  Sadly I felt nothing throughout.  Yes, I felt a great deal for the trans person whose video I watched, but I also felt nothing for the situation.  I’ll add some pictures.

maybe we spend too much time in real hospitals and the people we meet there are worried about staying alive and not social issues, but it was hard for us to take it seriously.