Starkey’s November 2019 audio installation for the Community College of Philadelphia “…for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic” was released on the NOREMIXES label. The concept of the project stemmed from the attention and discussions taking place around mental health in the media, and quickly turned down the path of the dark history of controversy, patient mistreatment and investigations into mental health facilities. …
Hear Starkey Installation “…for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic” this November.
A new Starkey audio installation …for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic went up in the Community College of Philadelphia’s Mint Building Rotunda (Spring Garden Street, between 16th & 17th Sts.) today, and will play throughout November. The work, in four continuous parts, was inspired by the composer’s “looking for info about mental institutions in and around Philadelphia.” The prominent attention that …