Finding reconnection: Using art-based intersectional self-reflexivity to ignite profession based community care in the arts therapies during the COVID-19 pandemic

Eastwood, Corrina

doi:10.1016/j.aip.2022.101931

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“…This is not exposure for its own sake; rather, it is 'essential to the argument' (Behar, 1996, p.31). Indeed, I argue, after Eastwood, that making, sharing, and voicing through the 'work' of art in an act of radical vulnerability can support the depth of reflexivity necessary to unsettle established patterns, value systems, and power structures (Eastwood, 2022).…”

Section: Caveats and Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This broadens the scope from the visual, to the embodied, sensory, performative 'work' of art as both site and material with and through which to affectively feel one's way into human experiences and situations -processes that are at the root of the art (psycho)therapy profession. Moving away from the single, linear, narrative trajectory of a case study, I redirect attention towards an intersubjective approach, assembling and interweaving analytic, aesthetic, social, sensual, and material considerations with creative and imaginative writing, and artmaking around artworks' (Gilroy, 2006), further extending processes of reflexivity and analysis (McCaffrey and Edwards, 2015, Eastwood, 2022, Skukauskaite et al, 2022.…”

Section: Implications For Practice/policy/future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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From Creative, Reflective, Practice to Affective Reflexivity as an Art Research Methodology

Michaels

2023

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A capacity to reflect on experience and learn through it (reflective and reflexive practice) is deemed an essential part of ethical practice and research. Challenging traditional research approaches this arts-based, inter-disciplinary, Ph.D. project explores artistic practice as a research methodology, and how learning through experiences of ‘making’ things may enhance and amplify our understanding of the more affective aspects of human situations and experience. Grounded in the author’s artistic practice and learning through experiences of ‘making’, the author assembles and adapts frames from psychoanalysis, art (psycho)therapy, and the arts with/through which to observe and document their experience of an organisational situation. Describing the development of their method in three phases, analysis takes place through returning to revisit and rework artistic material produced, and engaging in conversation with the emergent material and others in response. Results take the form of artworks and artistic projects, including documentation of process. Emergent threads draw attention to the speculative, entangled, and affective nature of the research process, the reflexivity generated through moving and handling material, and the reflexive work of undergoing, foregrounding an ethics of responsibility, attention, and care for/of the body. As a space for imaginative encounter and performative enactment, and a site for reflexivity through which one may be pressed to notice and feel more acutely, the author argues that the research value resides in the capacity of this method to embrace complex relationalities, and engage our affective, ethical sensibilities in ways that may not emerge through more traditional approaches to reflective/reflexive practice(s). This has implications for both art therapy practice and research, amplifying the learning opportunities afforded by moving, modifying, and assembling things differently, the embodied ‘work’ of art as a method of enquiry, the cultural sensitivity of documentary fragments captured in/through various media and voices, and the value of collaborative endeavours where meaning is co-constructed in conversation.

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Section: Caveats and Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%