Working with death through art and story : a collective biography

Jody Thomson

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Abstract

In this essay, the author works with stories and artwork generated in a collective biography workshop about death. The project was a methodological experiment to think about what is made possible when memory-stories are brought back to the body through art-making and autoethnographic writing. The people who participated in the workshop, including the author, were art therapists working in end-of-life and palliative care. This essay is an entanglement of stories, new materialist and post-humanist theory, art and death, and asks: what happens when stories become art become stories?
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)77-90
Number of pages14
JournalAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Arts Therapy
Volume14
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 2019

Keywords

  • palliative treatment
  • death
  • creative writing
  • memory

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