TY - JOUR
T1 - Enchanted encounters with the liveliness of matter and art forcing thought
AU - Thomson, Jody
AU - Linnell, Sheridan
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - In this essay, the authors work through the concept of enchantment in an encounter with the matter and mattering of art and narratives about how it is to work with those who are dying and those who are bereaved. Through visual and poetic art-making, they ask, what matters about this matter that is art; what distributive agency, affect and effect do media, places and atmospheres have in terms of what is made possible in specific spacetime assemblages of therapy or research; what emerges if we allow matter its agential and ethical due as alive, energetic, always becoming, even in the face of death? In this multiply entangled sense, they ask, not what the matter of art means or represents, but what can matter do, what forces can it harness to force thought?
AB - In this essay, the authors work through the concept of enchantment in an encounter with the matter and mattering of art and narratives about how it is to work with those who are dying and those who are bereaved. Through visual and poetic art-making, they ask, what matters about this matter that is art; what distributive agency, affect and effect do media, places and atmospheres have in terms of what is made possible in specific spacetime assemblages of therapy or research; what emerges if we allow matter its agential and ethical due as alive, energetic, always becoming, even in the face of death? In this multiply entangled sense, they ask, not what the matter of art means or represents, but what can matter do, what forces can it harness to force thought?
KW - art therapy
KW - death
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:54825
U2 - 10.1016/j.emospa.2020.100656
DO - 10.1016/j.emospa.2020.100656
M3 - Article
SN - 1755-4586
VL - 35
JO - Emotion , Space and Society
JF - Emotion , Space and Society
M1 - 100656
ER -