About the event
As an in-between space, intermediality – understood as the interrelationships between media and their signification – is inherently connected to the experience and practice of care. The non-dual, non-essentialist concepts advocated by intermedial studies chime with the more fluid and hybrid conceptions of identity that dismantle imposed sets of representations (of, for instance, gender, sexuality, race, language).
In our times of distress, intermediality gives visibility to societal fractures and inequalities, creates lines of community beyond the national and nationalist identitarian agendas that are steadily on the rise, and disrupts monolithic and hegemonic world views. Helping individuals understand their anxieties with a view to overcoming them, intermediality as a creative practice can become an empowering form of self-care. Not least, intermediality is both a potent means to express and an artistic practice to exercise environmental care.
In light of rapid technological change and the fragmented time of hyper-productivity, working and thinking between the arts opens a space of freedom to reflect upon what we care for, what connects the human and non-human worlds, and for creating practices of being attentive to the rhythms of the living; it expands the senses, initiating synaesthetic modes of artistic expression.
In this workshop, we will be reflecting about the use of intermediality as a tool of (self-)care, a method that stimulates fresh thinking about therapy, clinical practice and pedagogy, and a vehicle to shape new networks of solidarity.
Themes/issues to be explored and considered include:
- architextures of care
- urban and architectural mending
- intermediality as a means to promote mutual understanding, mixity, dialogues, recognition of diversity and an ideal of social justice
- self-care
- environmental concerns
- creative dialogues between intermedial theories and practices of care
- building bridges between sociological, medical, and humanities approaches
- intermediality in art therapy, clinical practice and pedagogy
