“The Generational: Younger than Jesus”
New Museum
ONE OF THE STANDOUT PIECES in “Younger than Jesus”the New Museum’s inaugural triennial for artists under the fateful age of thirty-threeis Luke Fowler’s What You See Is Where You’re At, 2001, a video documenting schizophrenia treatments developed in the 1960s by psychiatrist R. D. Laing. The video begins with an overview of Laing’s experimental protocols, which are premised on the notion that schizophrenia is not an illness and therefore needs no cure, but the narrative quickly begins to derail. Shots of disoriented patients and their equally disoriented doctors are interspersed with