The Babushka Project: Mediating between the Margins and Wider Community through Public Art Creation

Autor/in	Gray, Bronwen Lucie
Titel	The Babushka Project: Mediating between the Margins and Wider Community through Public Art Creation
Quelle	In: Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 29 (2012) 3, S.113-119 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0742-1656
DOI	10.1080/07421656.2012.701600
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Art Therapy; Art Activities; Community Programs; Public Housing; Low Income Groups; Intervention; Sculpture; Social Action; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Kunsttherapie; Künstlerische Tätigkeit; Sozialer Wohnungsbau; Bildhauerei; Soziales Handeln; Australien
Abstract	This article discusses the theoretical and social contexts of a community art project that took place at a public housing estate located in Melbourne, Australia. The art intervention was aimed at increasing the residents' health and well-being through the empowerment of their own cultural creations. Three sculptures in the form of giant babushka dolls were collaboratively designed to counter the negative effects of being eradicated from the dominant view of what constitutes culture. By placing art therapy practices within a human rights discourse, the project exemplifies how collaborative art making can act as a transitional space that mediates between marginalized communities and the wider community in which they are located. (Contains 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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