The song of the soul: transforming disabling illness through art.

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dc.contributor.authorYalte, Zulis
dc.contributor.supervisorDoane, Gweneth Hartrick
dc.contributor.supervisorTrueit, Donna
dc.date.accessioned2011-12-22T17:49:30Z
dc.date.available2011-12-22T17:49:30Z
dc.date.copyright2011en_US
dc.date.issued2011-12-22
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Nursingen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Nursing M.N.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe focus of this qualitative, arts-based inquiry was to understand how disabling illness might be transformed through art. A/r/tography -- art/research/teaching and writing, was the method used to explore and understand the meaning(s) held within the art: Border Crossings -- a conceptual, figurative, sculptural installation. The installation embodied the experience of disabling illness, symbolically depicting power relationships, identities, subjectivities and the multi-dimensional nature of being, of one coming up against the institution, the illness and the self. Guided by the work of Heidegger (Hermeneutic Circle), Deleuze and Guatarri (Rhizome and The body without Organs) and Foucault (Power Relationships), the A/r/tographer examined the installation through the lens of the poststructural feminist writers Grosz, Davis, Gatens, Weedon, Moss and Dyck with a focus on the body/subjective to explore notions central to understanding being in a body. A further analysis through art theorists Eisner, Allen and A/r/tographers Irwin and Springgay’s aesthetic perspectives, explicated the nuance of how art transformed the ill researcher and larger community. The results of the inquiry revealed a multi-dimensional, generative process of opening multiple thresholds of complexity, understanding and transformation of the experience of disabling illness for inquirer, and the art participant/observers/larger community. The research illuminates the value of A/r/tography as a potent means of inquiry into lived experience and how art enhances the understandings and possibilities for the transformation of the experience of disabling illness/lived experience.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/3762
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectnursingen_US
dc.subjectfine arten_US
dc.subjectarts-based inquiryen_US
dc.subjectpractice-based inquiryen_US
dc.subjectart educationen_US
dc.subjecttransformationen_US
dc.subjectpower relationshipsen_US
dc.subjectcommunityen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous studiesen_US
dc.subjectgender studiesen_US
dc.subjectnuminousen_US
dc.subjectspiritualen_US
dc.subjectconsciousnessen_US
dc.subjectphilosophyen_US
dc.subjectoccupational healthen_US
dc.subjectpsychologyen_US
dc.subjectwomen's studiesen_US
dc.titleThe song of the soul: transforming disabling illness through art.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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