Abstract
The Hero’s Journey is an embodied game activity based on the monomyth of Joseph Campbell (1949). This participatory art-based activity served as a research instrument in a development context in southern Africa with marginalised San youth. One of the outcomes of employing this art-based activity in research was the development of the GRACE model which encompasses grass-root participation, art, creativity, embodiment, expression and empowerment. This paper asks how participatory and art-based methods enable the dialogical and solution orientated GRACE model to function in development work within marginalised communities. The paper discusses how improvisation facilitates power distribution when participatory art-based methods are applied. Improvisation permits continuous negotiation processes with stakeholders, thus enabling communities to participate in development activities in power sensitive settings.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 129-149 |
| Journal | Synnyt : taidekasvatuksen tiedonala |
| Issue number | 3/2018 |
| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - Dec 2018 |
| MoEC publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
| Event | The Art of Research: Catalyses, Interventions, Transformations - Espoo, Finland Duration: 29 Nov 2017 → 30 Nov 2017 Conference number: VI http://artofresearch2017.aalto.fi/index.html |
Field of science
- Visual arts and design