ABSTRACT
This book contributes to a larger global call to radically re-create ourselves—to transform our fear and alienation from art, Nature, and ourselves. With compassion and grace, the co-authors outline how everyone may access the gift of Spontaneous Creation-Making and change dominant narratives of individualism. Discovering interconnectivity through art-care we can dream courageously together into the unknown possibilities of a precarious future.
Art-care, as coined by the co-authors, is a matrixial form of communicaring through art and reverence. This theoretically informed and practice-based book bridges the individual with the communal in Creation-centred ways that interweave the many parts with the whole. It provides examples of teachings, practices and spontaneous creations of makers that will benefit those who want to integrate art-care into individual practices or group facilitation. This book benefits socially engaged artists, arts-based researchers, artist-philosophers, activists, students, teachers, organizers, therapists, caregivers, and more.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|1 pages
Communidreaming on Theory
chapter 2|10 pages
Care-in-the-Making
chapter 3|12 pages
Creativity-in-Communion
chapter 5|16 pages
Art-Care and Spiritual Activism in a Time of Crisis
chapter 7|14 pages
Birthing a Matrixial Gift Economy
chapter 8|9 pages
Matrixial Time Freedom
part 2|1 pages
Spontaneous Creating on Practice
part 3|1 pages
Gestating on Service