Hi, Sam,

A key question from my perspective is why, what you are hoping to achieve. Do you anticipate some sort of exhibit or publication that engages people or influences their opinions of organ donation? Is the authenticating audience for the artworks the family members’ themselves, who will see the work as a meaningful part of their mourning? Or is it a process element, but not necessarily an instrumental outcome. And so on….

You and other AACORN members may be interested in Art & Well-Being: Toward A Culture of Health, a free, downloadable guide I recently authored for the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture. It features many examples of health-related arts interventions along with a compilation of relevant research sources.

all best,

Arlene

On Jun 8, 2018, at 8:08 AM, Fides Matzdorf <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi Sam,

Sorry for the
​ earlier
ptc (= predictive text cock-up) - meant "digress", not "digest" - although somehow it does fit in with that inner organ theme...
​ :)​


From my own 'dance context', I remember a couple of papers by Anneli Hujala and Sanna Laulainen (and others), where they've used dance with the help of dancer/dance pedagogue as facilitator to work through participants' perceptions of (and problems with) leadership issues in their workplaces. References below:

Hujala, A., Laulainen, S., Kinni, R.L., Kokkonen, K., Puttonen, K. and Aunola, A., 2015. Dancing with the bosses: Creative movement as a method. Organizational Aesthetics, 5(1), pp.11-36.

Hujala, A., Laulainen, S. and Kokkonen, K., 2014. Manager’s dance: reflecting management interaction through creative movement. International journal of work organisation and emotion, 6(1), pp.40-57.

I'll have another look - might find some more...
​Cheers,
Fides​

 






On Fri, 8 Jun 2018, 13:57 Samantha Warren, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hi Fides,
> Excellent question… in our project we are looking to use a visual artist and probably drawing or some other visually artistic medium such as collage (but not photography). For some context, the interviews are with family members who have recently consented to a relative’s organs to be donated after sudden death, and recent organ recipients. So its a sensitive topic and we are trying to surface the embodied relationships with these processes “beyond the obvious” - our current strategy of asking them to associate to a number of interesting images of the body and organs isn’t generating useful data (which is of course useful in itself I guess!)
> Thanks for your engagement :)
> Sam
>
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> From: Fides Matzdorf <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Friday, 8 June 2018 at 12:54
> To: Samantha Warren <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Advice on references please
>
> Hi Sam,
>
> I'd guess the answer depends a little bit on your definition of 'artist'... Are you specifically referring to what's generally meant by 'fine arts'?
>
> For example, when does a photographer become an artist? How 'artistic', or even, how skilled, how experienced, how knowledgeable in/of photography would they need to be, in order to be an 'artist' in your sense?
>
> I think this links in with an earlier discussion.
> Sorry, not trying to digest from your topic, just trying to get enough clarification to work out what sort of material would qualify as an answer to your question... :)
>
> Cheers,
> Fides
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 8 Jun 2018, 12:40 Samantha Warren, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Dear AACORN hive mind,
>>
>> Can anyone recommend one or two publications specifically pertaining to
>> the use of an artist in qualitative research interviewing? I feel sure I
>> have seen articles on this but my searches and my own database is not
>> coming up with much, which is confusing me...
>>
>> What we want to learn more about is the process of involving an artist as
>> facilitator or translator of interview transcripts (or sitting in the
>> interviews even?) into artistic texts for further reflection.
>>
>> Thanks so much for your help!
>> Sam
>>
>> Prof. Samantha Warren
>> Room Q26, Aberconway Building
>> Cardiff Business School
>> Internal phone: 77351
>> Direct line: 029 2087 7351
>>
>>
>> >
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