Pedro Reyes’s temporary art installation, Sanatorium, the first edition in the Guggenheim series, stillspotting nyc, pops up in Downtown Brooklyn June 2-5 and June 9-12. In the course of two hours, visitors get to experience a range of treatments based upon an initial consult with the receptionist. Here’s a list of the possible ways to get healed:
1. Leave words behind and let your brain relax in a Conversation with the Bird.
2. Need to find the answer to that burning question? Why not ask the best minds that have walked the earth at the Philosophical Casino?
3. Confess one urban secret, and take another with you with no questions asked at Cityleaks.
4. Write the words that you’ll be remembered by at Epitaphs.
5. Is she or he the perfect match for you? Taste the flavor of love at the Compatibility Test for Couples.
6. See your city dilemmas abridged as a mathematical formula at Onthological Algebra.
7. Channel your healing energies even when you are far away from Brooklyn with Goodoo.
8. Make a spatial analysis of the hidden forces that control Brooklyn at The Great Game of Power.
9. Align your energies by using simple hand movements at The Department of Mudras.
10. There won’t be more blessings in your life if you don’t express thanks at Ex-Voto for the ones you already have.
11. Making collages can be therapeutic because our lives are a constant flux of cut-and-paste. Come make a coat of arms of your family or your professional life at the Heraldry Mint.
12. If your name is truly your destiny, you had better understand the meaning of your name or even consider changing it. We can help at Anagrams, Acronyms, and Aliases.
13. Curate an exhibition about your life in the city at The Museum of Hypothetical Lifetimes.
14. Explore how the senses interact at The Sinesthetic Test.
15. Do you have urban frustrations? Vent and resolve them through The Vaccine against Violence (originally developed by Antanas Mockus, former mayor of Bogotá, Columbia).
16. Engage is group therapy by recalibrating your senses and solving subconscious problems with The Tuning Effect (created by Mel S. Kimura-Bucholtz), or fastening your seat belts for a mystery trip across dimensions at Inner-Visioning.
