Art-Care Practices for Restoring the Communal: Education, Co-Inquiry, and Healing

ISBN-13: 9781032109947 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 248 str.

R. Michael Fisher

Opis

This theoretically-informed and practice-based book bridges the individual with the communal in creation-centered ways that interweave the many parts with the whole. This text benefits socially-engaged artists, arts-based researchers, artist-philosophers, activists, students, teachers, organizers, therapists, caregivers, and more.

Spis treści

Foreword: Bracha L. Ettinger;  Preface;  PART 1: Communidreaming on Theory;  1: Introduction: Art-as-Process;  2: Care-in-the-Making;  3: Creativity-in-Communion;  4: A Story of Collaboration: Spontaneous Creation-Making;  5: Art-Care and Spiritual Activism in a Time of Crisis;  6: Beyond Method: Matrixial Mediators;  7: Birthing a Matrixial Gift Economy;  8: Matrixial Time Freedom;   PART 2: Spontaneous Creating on Practice;  9: Spontaneous Creation-Making: Communal Rituals and Expanding Imaginaries;  10: Spontaneous Creation-Making: Orienting Intentions and Body Grounding;  11: Spontaneous Creation-Making: Responding and Closing the Circle;  PART 3: Gestating on Service;  12: Nurturing a Communal Art-Care Practice;  13: An Arts-Based Reenchantment: Following Nature;  14: Afterword: Forging New Intersections by Geraldine Burke;  15: A Turnabout Postscript;  Appendix 1: Thirteen Matrixial Aesthetic Practices;  Appendix 2: Facilitating Art-Care Online;  Appendix 3: A-D-ness Model by R. Michael Fisher;  Appendix 4: Excerpt from Opening Doors: A Guidebook to Spontaneous Creation-Making;  Appendix 5: Participant-Informed Research Creation Consent Form