Improvisation as Experimentation in Everyday Life and Beyond

The Art of a Life Adapting: Drawing and Healing

“…Research of any kind assumes a level of control, of agency, not least in research through the practice of art, for new insights to be recognised and valued in relation to existing knowledge. Control, which might be called method, is assumed to be as important in arts research as it is in the sciences, even if that control is improvised (cf Douglas and Coessens [2]), intuitive or in some ways explores intentionally ceding control (cf Cage [3]). I believe what I learned from the experience of healing and protecting myself while following the treatment pathway offers a different quality of relationship between patient and disease that has a bearing on cancer as a research subject.…”