Post Institutional Stress Disorder

Post Institutional Stress Disorder (PISD) is a group exhibition that
builds up over a period of ten months and contains works by Danish
and international artists.

The title is a reinterpretation of the diagnosis Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder (PTSD), which occurs on the basis of one or more
traumatic events and has major consequences for the affected per-
son. Post Institutional Stress Disorder addresses and investigates
how we are influenced by and interact with institutions in society. The
exhibition examines how systems at times affect and provoke a feel-
ing of powerlessness in the individual. Besides commenting and in-
vestigating institutions such as schools, hospitals, prisons, military
and legislation in general, the exhibition also examines the obstacles
and challenges the art institution itself creates between institution
and audience.

PISD is a cumulative group exhibition that follows the principle
of over-accumulation. At the opening, the exhibition consists of one
single work, but when it closes ten months later, the exhibition space
is filled with works including sculpture, photography, video, painting,
etc. The exhibition thus develops its own unpredictable and –
ultimately – chaotic logic.