“DWELLING”: ART-BASED RESEARCH ART PSYCHOTHERAPY WORKSHOP

EMST hosts the 2nd cycle of an art-based research art psychotherapy workshop, titled “Dwelling”, which is aimed at professional art psychotherapists. During the 1st cycle, the clinical practice of response art in art psychotherapy was investigated in relation to the artistic practice of the archive.

In the new cycle ways of recording both critical and experiential reflection will be explored. Two practices are going to be studied in connection with the clinical tool of response art in art psychotherapy:

  • Performative writing  – Definition from Peggy Phelan’s book, Mourning Sex (1997) pp.11/12: “… Performative writing is an attempt to find a form for ‘what philosophy wishes all the same to say’. Rather than describing the performance event in ‘direct signification’ a task I believe to be impossible and not terrifically interesting, I want this writing to enact the affective force of the performance event again…”
  • Autoethnography: Autoethnography is an approach to research and writing that seeks to systematically describe and analyze (graphic) personal experience (auto) in order to understand cultural experience (ethno) (Ellis, 2004; Holman Jones, 2005). This approach challenges typical ways of researching and representing others and treats research as a political, socially just and socially conscious act (Adams & Holman Jones, 2008). A researcher uses principles of autobiography and ethnography to do and write autoethnography.

The workshop is designed and implemented by Maria Konti (Artist and Art Psychotherapist) in collaboration with contemporary Greek artists and art theorists who will work together with the group of art psychotherapists.

EMST Coordinator: Elisabeth Ioannides, Education Curator – Art Psychotherapist

PROGRAM

Nine (9) four-hour monthly meetings are held at EMST, on the first Thursday of each month, from 16.30 to 20.30, on the following dates:

  • 6/10/2022
  • 3/11/2022
  • 1/12/2022
  • 12/1/2023
  • 1/2/2023
  • 1/3/2023
  • 6/4/2023
  • 4/5/2023
  • 1/6/2023

Bibliography

Adams, Tony E. & Holman Jones, Stacy (2008). Autoethnography is queer. In Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln & Linda T. Smith (Eds.), Handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies (pp.373-390). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Ellis, Carolyn (2004). The ethnographic I: A methodological novel about autoethnography. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

Phelan, P. (1997). Mourning sex. London: Routledge.

IMAGES FROM THE WORKSHOP