Art-Care Practices for Restoring the Communal
Author | : Barbara A. Bickel |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2022-12-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781000814682 |
ISBN-13 | : 1000814688 |
Rating | : 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This book contributes to a larger global call to radically re-create ourselves—to transform our fear and alienation from art, Nature, and ourselves. With compassion and grace, the co-authors outline how everyone may access the gift of Spontaneous Creation-Making and change dominant narratives of individualism. Discovering interconnectivity through art-care we can dream courageously together into the unknown possibilities of a precarious future. Art-care, as coined by the co-authors, is a matrixial form of communicaring through art and reverence. This theoretically informed and practice-based book bridges the individual with the communal in Creation-centred ways that interweave the many parts with the whole. It provides examples of teachings, practices and spontaneous creations of makers that will benefit those who want to integrate art-care into individual practices or group facilitation. This book benefits socially engaged artists, arts-based researchers, artist-philosophers, activists, students, teachers, organizers, therapists, caregivers, and more.