As part of the Art, Materiality and Representation conference hosted by the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) at BRITISH MUSEUM/SOAS 1st-3rd JUNE 2018, we are pleased to invite papers for the panel
Making, Materials and Recovery: Perspectives "from the inside" (PO20)
Convened by Amanda Ravetz, Manchester School of Art, MMU, and Emilia Ferraro, University of St Andrews.
If you would like to submit a paper proposal for the panel, please supply a title, a short summary of up to 300 characters and an abstract of 250 words. Please submit via the online form by 8th January 2018 at
http://nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6068
Abstract
Research about Art and Health straddles many fields and topics. However, related literature presents two serious gaps: an over-attention to evaluation, which can be detrimental to artistic research in arts and health; and a lack of first-hand experiential perspectives on sickness and recovery. The panel explores recovery as a process of (mutual) learning, where art making and recovery translate into new forms of practice and knowledge.
Having worked on wellbeing practice and theory, we now wish to gather personal experiences of art and recovery to question the importance of an "insider's" perspective. We are interested in: the nature of the knowledge and practice generated by an experience of sickness and recovery; the role making/art play in new forms of knowledge and practice. How such knowledge changes the nature of academic knowledge. How it shifts our conception of knowing, teaching, and research. Can experiences of sickness, recovery and art be considered research methodologies in their own right? Can such experiences be incorporated into our practice as academics? What value can they have for our institutions?
We invite presentations including, but not limited to the following:
art and recovery as knowledge-generating processes; uses of different art forms in recovery - what is the role of materials?
Usefulness of anthropological concepts in this field; new modes of analysing and communicating art and recovery from inside, including but not limited to writing; institutional responses to sickness; recovery and social justice within the academy;
asset-based approaches to sickness
With best wishes
Amanda and Emilia
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