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.
Author(s): Barbara A. Bickel, R. Michael Fisher
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 287
City: New York
Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Authors
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Glossary
Acknowledgements
Foreword
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
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
Index
