Puppetry is a resilient art form, as has been evidenced by the response of puppeteers to the recent COVID-19 pandemic Perhaps this is fitting, as puppeteers have a long history of travelling to perform and adapting their performances to changing circumstances In this report, we provide a sample of puppetry projects that are taking place around the world and some insights from puppeteers on how they are working through COVID-19;using puppetry to teach about COVID-19 and teaching puppetry in general;to entertain and to perform puppetry that is offered as ritual at a time of crisis
{"title":"Puppet theatre under COVID-19","authors":"Emma Fisher, C. Astles","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00029_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00029_7","url":null,"abstract":"Puppetry is a resilient art form, as has been evidenced by the response of puppeteers to the recent COVID-19 pandemic Perhaps this is fitting, as puppeteers have a long history of travelling to perform and adapting their performances to changing circumstances In this report, we provide a sample of puppetry projects that are taking place around the world and some insights from puppeteers on how they are working through COVID-19;using puppetry to teach about COVID-19 and teaching puppetry in general;to entertain and to perform puppetry that is offered as ritual at a time of crisis","PeriodicalId":159883,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts and Health","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116486433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article engages disability puppetry as plays of transactional object relations, opening into speculative realms, articulating new alignments of embodied and enminded difference. The examples here range from hospital practices via art/life pain-related somatic explorations to experimental poetics of classroom and gallery installations, and from there to small local theatres working in collaboration with mental health service providers. In all of these sites, disability and puppetry have much to say to one another, offering connection and new forms of meaning-making, using non-realist conventions to make new worlds in which disability stays present.
{"title":"Towards disabled futures: Non-realist embodiment in puppetry1","authors":"P. Kuppers","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00018_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00018_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article engages disability puppetry as plays of transactional object relations, opening into speculative realms, articulating new alignments of embodied and enminded difference. The examples here range from hospital practices via art/life pain-related somatic explorations to experimental\u0000 poetics of classroom and gallery installations, and from there to small local theatres working in collaboration with mental health service providers. In all of these sites, disability and puppetry have much to say to one another, offering connection and new forms of meaning-making, using non-realist\u0000 conventions to make new worlds in which disability stays present.","PeriodicalId":159883,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts and Health","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122225346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Making the invisible visible is an autobiographical essay about living with chronic illness/disability and the power of puppetry to tell the author’s story. The author reflects on the ‘Life Outside the Box’ puppet project, which she facilitated with fellow people with disabilities. As her health is in decline, she has explored more accessible puppetry formats during mentoring with Dr Emma Fisher. The resulting ‘Invisible Octopus’ project explores her reality: making the invisible visible. Even to herself.
{"title":"Making the invisible visible: Exploring life with chronic illness/disability through puppetry","authors":"C. Duyn","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00023_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00023_7","url":null,"abstract":"Making the invisible visible is an autobiographical essay about living with chronic illness/disability and the power of puppetry to tell the author’s story. The author reflects on the ‘Life Outside the Box’ puppet project, which she facilitated with fellow people with\u0000 disabilities. As her health is in decline, she has explored more accessible puppetry formats during mentoring with Dr Emma Fisher. The resulting ‘Invisible Octopus’ project explores her reality: making the invisible visible. Even to herself.","PeriodicalId":159883,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts and Health","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122941052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the challenges of communicating digitally to the fore as people turn almost solely to their digital screens for connection and collaboration. In doing so, such as through web conferencing, we open up our living spaces to others, revealing parts of our lives heretofore we could keep hidden. In this article, I will describe ‘Interior’, a live Zoom shadow puppet performance by Australian puppet theatre collective, The Jill Collective, as an example of a deliberate response to COVID-19 pandemic isolation and social distancing restrictions. I offer the practice of traditional Wayang architecture of the shadow screen as a surface to physically work on, in, behind and through, as well as the screen as metaphorical facade or gateway as a unique theoretical and practical approach to digital performance.
{"title":"The truth behind the screen: Digital shadows in the time of pandemic","authors":"Lynne Kent","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00028_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00028_7","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the challenges of communicating digitally to the fore as people turn almost solely to their digital screens for connection and collaboration. In doing so, such as through web conferencing, we open up our living spaces to others, revealing parts of our lives heretofore we could keep hidden. In this article, I will describe ‘Interior’, a live Zoom shadow puppet performance by Australian puppet theatre collective, The Jill Collective, as an example of a deliberate response to COVID-19 pandemic isolation and social distancing restrictions. I offer the practice of traditional Wayang architecture of the shadow screen as a surface to physically work on, in, behind and through, as well as the screen as metaphorical facade or gateway as a unique theoretical and practical approach to digital performance.","PeriodicalId":159883,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts and Health","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127669942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
An interview with Rachel Warr of Dotted Line Theatre on the synergies between surgery and puppetry
虚线剧院的Rachel Warr就手术和木偶戏之间的协同作用进行了访谈
{"title":"Collaborations between surgery and puppetry: Rachel Warr","authors":"C. Astles","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00031_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00031_7","url":null,"abstract":"An interview with Rachel Warr of Dotted Line Theatre on the synergies between surgery and puppetry","PeriodicalId":159883,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts and Health","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115792100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Puppets, women and health in Togo: An interview with Vicky Tsikplonou, Togo","authors":"C. Astles","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00033_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00033_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":159883,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts and Health","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122318377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article discusses my work as a therapeutic puppeteer in youth welfare contexts. The value of the projective material and symbols of puppetry are well known; I focus on puppetry for its dramatic content. The therapist is like a dramaturge: s/he responds to the setting, is proficient in understanding the impact of the work and is aware of empathy. I use a theatrical perspective and then return to the therapeutic effects, suggesting that to create and materialize a personal narrative has special therapeutic advantages.
{"title":"Lisa’s baby: Dramaturgical aspects of therapeutic puppetry","authors":"A. Wegener","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00026_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00026_7","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses my work as a therapeutic puppeteer in youth welfare contexts. The value of the projective material and symbols of puppetry are well known; I focus on puppetry for its dramatic content. The therapist is like a dramaturge: s/he responds to the setting, is proficient\u0000 in understanding the impact of the work and is aware of empathy. I use a theatrical perspective and then return to the therapeutic effects, suggesting that to create and materialize a personal narrative has special therapeutic advantages.","PeriodicalId":159883,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts and Health","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128476024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The theoretical turn to object ontologies in the social sciences and the humanities brings puppetry work related to illness, disability and health to the forefront of artistic practice-as-research, disability studies and the medical/health humanities. Articulating chronic illness and disability through the tools and practice of puppetry animation can help form complex embodiment, where the person is empowered to value their embodiment as a site of knowledge. Puppetry pedagogy can train the bodies of medical students and clinicians to develop the capacity for embodied attunement and may decolonize both the knowledge of the body and medical education by reunifying mind, body and imagination. By training to perceive materials both physically and poetically, puppetry allows silenced bodies and histories to speak.
{"title":"Bodies speaking: Embodiment, illness and the poetic materiality of puppetry/object practice","authors":"M. Tsaplina","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00020_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00020_1","url":null,"abstract":"The theoretical turn to object ontologies in the social sciences and the humanities brings puppetry work related to illness, disability and health to the forefront of artistic practice-as-research, disability studies and the medical/health humanities. Articulating chronic illness and disability through the tools and practice of puppetry animation can help form complex embodiment, where the person is empowered to value their embodiment as a site of knowledge. Puppetry pedagogy can train the bodies of medical students and clinicians to develop the capacity for embodied attunement and may decolonize both the knowledge of the body and medical education by reunifying mind, body and imagination. By training to perceive materials both physically and poetically, puppetry allows silenced bodies and histories to speak.","PeriodicalId":159883,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts and Health","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114178699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article provides an explanation of the origins and conceptualization of the term ‘intermediary object’, based on the clinical practice developed by Jaime Rojas-Bermúdez, with chronic psychotic patients sunk into self-absorption. Its characteristics and relationship with natural communication are presented as well as its applications in other psychotherapeutic contexts; this led us to conceptualize the intra-intermediary object and allowed us to work more effectively with objects in the psychodrama clinic.
{"title":"Puppets as psychotherapeutic instrument: Intermediary and intra-intermediary object in psychodrama","authors":"Jaime Rojas-Bermúdez, G. Moyano","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00025_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00025_7","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides an explanation of the origins and conceptualization of the term ‘intermediary object’, based on the clinical practice developed by Jaime Rojas-Bermúdez, with chronic psychotic patients sunk into self-absorption. Its characteristics and relationship\u0000 with natural communication are presented as well as its applications in other psychotherapeutic contexts; this led us to conceptualize the intra-intermediary object and allowed us to work more effectively with objects in the psychodrama clinic.","PeriodicalId":159883,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts and Health","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125867689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article presents a case study of a child previously diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder who underwent a process of therapeutic intervention. The aim of the case study is to highlight the effectiveness of puppetry as a tool in individual and family psychotherapy. The author adopted the Embodiment, Projection and Role model developed by Sue Jennings, in order to facilitate access to symbolic transformation; this should decrease psychological symptoms and transform those facets into creative expression.
{"title":"Symbolic transformation through puppetry","authors":"Karim Dakroub","doi":"10.1386/jaah_00022_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00022_7","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a case study of a child previously diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder who underwent a process of therapeutic intervention. The aim of the case study is to highlight the effectiveness of puppetry as a tool in individual and family psychotherapy.\u0000 The author adopted the Embodiment, Projection and Role model developed by Sue Jennings, in order to facilitate access to symbolic transformation; this should decrease psychological symptoms and transform those facets into creative expression.","PeriodicalId":159883,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Arts and Health","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128636257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}