Arnuflo, it would be nice to play with a back wall that changes color or
uses a singular bright color from our palette. It could change color
according to mood.
Production design
Author: mania
wingdale asylum seekers– a song name
this is a question from an interview with someone named Rick Moody. he writes novels and makes music and one of his songs inspires the name of his new band the “Wingdale Community Singers”
PM: How did you come up with the band’s name and what does it mean? The song title “Wingdale Asylum Seekers” gives a hint, I imagine, but can you explain it?
RM: When I was a kid, we used to go up into the country, I grew up in Connecticut suburbs, but we used to go up into upstate New York on weekends now and then. And we went up Route 22, which goes by an incredibly creepy, old state mental hospital called Harlem Valley Psychiatric Hospital, but it’s in this town called Wingdale and it’s popularly known as Wingdale. It scared the bejesus out of me as a kid. I mean these buildings were just as creepy as you would suspect, knowing later on what it was that was done within them. And they were very Stalinesque and scary. Since then it’s been closed down, it was closed during the institutionalization period when all of the state mental hospitals got emptied. So now they’re these Chernobyl-like ghost buildings. On the one hand Wingdale Community Singers sounds like an old-timey folk band, but on the other hand it has this luminous, scary Jungian layer of referring to the old psychiatric hospital.
harlem valley hospital location photos
here is a page of photos some adventurers put together of this potential location. you must see if these pique your interest.
and here is a link to a brief description of the two films that involve this filming location, Trapped in Silence (1986) and Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (2000).
Asylum corridor
user 17556639
in this article we see a list of internet search terms entered by a particular user. the private mental space is quickly availible for machine recognition. quiet desperation catalogued.
abandoned greenhouse
like the one in yonkers a bit, this one is near an abandoned insane asylum.
interiors
one girl variety show
here’s a public access cable variety show called msdivine. it’s one girl who plays all the characters. is she striving for insanity? she calls her show a hobby.
Madness…
is the result of an individuals’ deepest beliefs being challenged or revealed as false, and their consequent failure to adapt. So those beliefs first need to be ascertained.
A new evolutionary development? You could argue that the crucible of late capitalism is perfoming this experiment upon western society as we speak.
The systematic derangment of an individual is, I think, faciliated by knowing them, the more depth of knowledge the easier it would be to unseat their balance.
Foucault. “Madness is silenced by Reason.”
J.G Ballard
“That the future of science fiction, and for that matter of popular consciousness in general, lay not in outer space but in what I had already christened ‘inner space’, in a world increasingly about to be remade by the mind. ”
The Lure of the Madding Crowd:
Mental patients, and especially paranoiacs, have always shown a remarkable flair for ncorporating the latest scientific marvels into their fantasies, a talent they share with science-fiction writers.
One man’s journey to Bannerman’s Castle
bannerman’s castle
the exterior looks good. i doubt interior spaces like these are something we can use. these are results from a quick google search to inaugurate the blog.
mania 