CONNECTING ARTS ACTIVISM, DIVERSE CREATIVITIES AND EMBODIMENT THROUGH PRACTICE AS RESEARCH ...

• Main Authors: Burnard, PA, Jasilek, Susanne, Dragovic, Tatjana, Cook, Peter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SensePublisher 2018
• Subjects: arts activism; intercultural creativity; artistic creativity; transdisciplinary creativity; greenlandic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.18581; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/271590

Environmental artists are ecologically and politically motivated to change the way we view our world. Artists undertake the production of art and activism, where the art-making becomes more than art; it becomes activism; a way that allows for raising awareness; a way to retrieve, express and communicate a political message. Here, diverse creativities (including intercultural, interdisciplinary, and artistic creativity) enable forms of authorship with particular kinds of power and capacity. In this chapter, We draw on three activist enquiry practices which embody: (i) intercultural creativity through an activist choreographic practice involving a Greenlandic and Scandinavian dance company; (ii) transdisciplinary creativity through an arts-based environmental education practice inspired by an activist sculpture involving a primary school in the UK; and (ii) artistic creativity inspired by an artist activist residency practice in a Higher Education setting in the UK. Each practice features artist-researcher ...