In Physician, artist Jason Maling will undertake private consultations with gallery visitors, offering poetic treatments for contemporary anxieties associated with visiting galleries and museums. Maling describes maladies such as “Metaphobia” and “Generalised Indifference Disorder” as becoming increasingly familiar to art patrons the world over. As a refurbished international art institution, the Museum of Contemporary Art has recognised the need to provide on site services that address these anxieties, ranging from mild conceptual perturbation to severe relational deficiency.

In an intimate one-on-one exchange with the artist, MCA patrons are invited to be first to participate in this trial program and will be offered a series of pneumatic rituals designed to activate belief receptors in the body, clearing unwanted metaphoric deposits and restoring full socio-poetic function.