Enchanted encounters with the liveliness of matter and art forcing thought

Jody Thomson, Sheridan Linnell

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Abstract

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?
Original languageEnglish
Article number100656
Number of pages8
JournalEmotion , Space and Society
Volume35
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

Keywords

  • art therapy
  • death

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