Enduring Liminality: Creative Arts Therapy When Nature Disrupts

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Creative Arts Educ Ther (2021) 7(1):71–91 DOI: 10.15212/CAET/2021/7/7

Enduring Liminality: Creative Arts Therapy When Nature Disrupts

忍受阈限：自然陷于混乱时的艺术治疗

Abstract

Ecopoiesis invites us to become response-able from within our position as part of, rather than separate from, the natural world. What happens, however, when nature disrupts? When being ‘within’ and ‘part of’ becomes disturbing? And, in such situations, what may creative arts therapy offer? When earthquakes struck my home in Aotearoa/New Zealand (2010 onwards), I floundered within my own reactions to nature unchained. And yet, through poietic engagement with natures’ creative and destructive elements, my clients and I found ways to endure and even play within the chaos. I’ve subsequently used arts-based auto-ethnography to chart positionings and practices that may help other therapists to navigate living/working within similarly uncertain situations. In this arts-based exploration, I creatively revisit arts therapy that evolved in response to earthquake disaster and invite wonderings about similar ecopoietic responses to current contexts of COVID and climate change.

Keywords: Enduring liminality, natural disaster, playfulness, communitas, soul

摘要

生态学邀请我们从身处自然之中的立场出发，作为自然界的一部分而非与之分离有所回应。然而，当自然陷于混乱，会发生什么？当身处自然"之中"，身为自然的"一部分"变得令人不安,会发生什么？在这种情况下，创造性艺术治疗可以提供什么？（从2020年起）当地震袭击我在新西兰的家时，对自然作出自在的反应让我感到无措。然而，通过对大自然创造性和破坏性元素诗意的了解，我和我的来访者们找到了忍受混乱，甚至在混乱中游戏的方法。随后，我使用基于艺术的自传民族志，描绘定位和实践，这可能有助于其他治疗师在相似的不确定情况下找到应对生活/工作的方式。在基于艺术的探索中，我创造性地重新审视了为应对地震灾害而发展起来的艺术治疗，并邀请大家思考相似的生态诗意的方式，应对当前新冠疫情和气候变化的情境。

关键词： 忍受阈限, 自然灾害, 游戏性, 共同体/共睦态, 灵魂