Gedächtnisverlust und szenische Erfahrung: eine Kunst basierte Untersuchung

Autor/innen

  • Jill Bennett University of New South Wales
  • Lynn Froggett University of Central Lancashire
  • Gail Kenning University of Technology
  • Julian Manley University of Central Lancashire
  • Lizzie Muller University of New South Wales

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.1.3126

Schlagworte:

Kunst, Emotion, soziale Beziehung, Gedächtnisverlust, Demenz, Reverie, visuelle Matrix, szenische Erfahrung

Abstract

In diesem Artikel berichten wir von zwei Gruppen, in denen Menschen mit Gedächtnisverlust infolge einer fortschreitenden Demenz eingeladen wurden, einen Film anzusehen, der von den Erfahrungen einer Frau mit Hirnläsion und Amnesie handelte. Zugang zu den Personen, die alle zuhause leben, erhielten wir über Tagespflegeeinrichtungen; in einer Gruppe nahmen zusätzlich informelle Betreuer/innen teil. Nach der Präsentation wurde mit jeder Person eine visuelle Matrix erstellt, ein gruppenbasiertes Verfahren zur Erhebung emotionaler Assoziationen infolge ästhetischer Stimuli, um das gemeinsame Erinnern zu fördern. Wir nahmen an, dass aus dem assoziativen Charakter der visuellen Matrix ein sinnvolles Engagement der Teilnehmenden mit Demenz resultieren würde.

Im Beitrag diskutieren wir die Teilhabe- und Selbstreflexionsprozesse, die durch die genutzte Methodik mit Blick auf soziale Fertigkeiten erleichtert wurden, auch bezogen auf Unterschiede zwischen beiden Gruppen, die (Nicht-) Anwesenheit von Betreuer/innen und das spezifische Forschungssetting. Wir zeigen, wie szenische Erfahrungen, angereichert durch verkörperlichte Erinnerungsspuren, in einer visuellen Matrix von Personen mit Gedächtniseinbußen ausgedrückt werden können im Rahmen ihres Engagements in einer komplexen künstlerischen Darstellung. Auf diese Weise wird nachvollziehbar, wie subjektive Erfahrungen von Menschen mit Gedächtnisverlust kommuniziert werden können. Implikationen für Unterstützungsprogramme, soziale Aktivitäten und Kommunikation in Gruppensettings werden erörtert.

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Autor/innen-Biografien

Jill Bennett, University of New South Wales

Jill BENNETT is an Australian Research Council laureate fellow at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), where she is also director of the National Institute for Experimental Arts and founding director of The Big Anxiety—festival of arts + science + people. Her Laureate Research Lab advances the study of the subjective experience of ageing, mental health, marginalisation and stigma, combining psycho-social approaches with the use of immersive environments and virtual reality to enable perspective sharing, and the development of effective methods for cultivating empathy. Jill is a visual media theorist, curator and immersive media producer, whose research focuses on trauma, emotional experience, memory and mental health. Her research includes arts-science collaborations at the intersection of trauma studies, psychology and mental health. Her books, include "Empathic Vision" (2005, Stanford University Press) and "Practical Aesthetics" (2012, I.B.Taruis), as well as monographs on media arts, curating and its social impact. She has produced and curated many exhibitions and events, encompassing visual, media and performing arts, interactive workshops and experimental discussion forums, designed to promote new forms of engagement.

Lynn Froggett, University of Central Lancashire

Lynn FROGGETT has a cross-disciplinary academic background in humanities and social sciences and is professor and co-director of Psychosocial Research at the University of Central Lancashire and co-director of the trans-disciplinary Lancashire Institute for Citizenship, Society and Change. She is also chair of The Association for Psychosocial Studies in the UK. Her research focus includes psychosocial wellbeing, public mental health and the arts. She has led research projects in digital, clinical, cultural and community settings as diverse as youth justice, public mental health, museums, hospitals, new model arts institutions, primary care, regeneration contexts, schools and festivals. Current projects are concerned with the role of the arts in health and well-being civic action, cultural renewal and local democracy. The theoretical and conceptual development from these projects is cumulative, trans-disciplinary and rests on in-depth, hermeneutic, ethnographic, narrative and visual methodologies. She is also visiting research professor at The University of Stavanger, Norway, and collaborating visiting professor at the University of Roskilde, Denmark.

Gail Kenning, University of Technology

Gail KENNING is an artist and researcher. She uses ethnographic methodologies to explore social and cultural approaches to health with a particular focus on ageing, dementia and wellbeing and the evaluation of arts engagement projects. Gail is senior researcher at University of Technology Sydney (UTS), honorary reader in design for ageing and dementia at Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, UK and Design United visiting fellow at Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands. Gail is also chief investigator on funded design for dementia projects in Australia, and co-investigator on AHRC and NWO projects in UK and Netherlands respectively.

Julian Manley, University of Central Lancashire

Julian MANLEY works at the University of Central Lancashire. He graduated at Cambridge University and holds a master in group relations and society and a PhD in social dreaming from the University of the West of England, Bristol. His research is centred around visual methods evolving from and including social dreaming and the visual matrix. He researches psychosocial and group relational approaches to knowledge and includes a Deleuzian perspective to this work. His book "Social Dreaming, Associative Thinking and Intensities of Affect" was published in 2018 (Palgrave).

Lizzie Muller, University of New South Wales

Lizzie MULLER is a curator specialising in interaction, audience experience and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her current research explores the relationship between curatorial practice and shifts in contemporary knowledge formations. Lizzie's recent exhibitions include "Human Non Human" (with Katie DYER) at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney and "A Working Model of the World" (with Holly WILLIAMS), which has been staged in Australia, USA and Scotland.

Veröffentlicht

2019-01-27

Zitationsvorschlag

Bennett, J., Froggett, L., Kenning, G., Manley, J., & Muller, L. (2019). Gedächtnisverlust und szenische Erfahrung: eine Kunst basierte Untersuchung. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 20(1). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.1.3126

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