Darja Kazimira&Dagmar Gertot - Art object “Extrusion of The Other”

Extrusion - displacement, expulsion, ejection. The other is the principle of plurality, the principle of difference, the principle of disordered movement. In 1942, on January 8, in the vicinity of the Burinsky Forest (Būriņu mežs), in the territory called “Long Mountains” (Garie kalni), 443 patients of the Psychoneurological Hospital Gintermuiža (Ģintermuiža) were shot, becoming victims of fascist terrorism. The isolation of the mentally ill in the category to be destroyed was due to the ideology of Nazi G