Matt Bodett is a performance artist, visual artist, poet, and collaborator. Since being diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 2005 he has made work that centers around telling his own story. This act becomes activism by offering a narrative that counters the socially constructed one. This new narrative seeks to rewrite history, which too often places the madman in either the asylum or the museum.
While at the MacDowell he continued this exploration and will explore language structures in schizophrenia through asemic texts as well as video installation work.
Studios
New Hampshire
Matt Bodett worked in the New Hampshire studio.
New
Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain,
Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in
1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed
maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow
Victor
Candell underwrote
the…
