Situating an Art Intervention with People Living with Dementia in a public space

Abstract

ScopeBased on experiences with three situated art interventions within residential care homes in Norway, Artful Dementia Research Lab (ADLab) searched for an opportunity to situate dementia research beyond a healthcare setting and within a public artistic space.In spring 2020 the organisers of the Trondenesdagene art festival invited ADLab to co-create a multisensory art session together with people living with dementia and their companions, as part of the general art festival program.The overall research questions we addressed were:1. How to understand dementia beyond human individual loss? 2. How to relate to each other through the arts? 3. How to co-create art and knowledge based on a multisensorial art session? Research designPreparation for the session included four meetings with artists-cum-researchers, 1 coresearchers and co-creators.Together we agreed on the elements that each of us would bring to the session and that the session should last for about 60 minutes.The group members engaged to varying degrees in preparing the intervention, creating data, processing data, and disseminating the results.Group: The group was composed by the following overlapping categories: four researchers-cum-artists (2 performers and 2 musicians), six co-researchers (the local dementia coordinator, the cantor, the deacon, a museum pedagogue, a photographer, and a professional musician), and eight co-creators of art and knowledge (4 people living with dementia accompanied by a family member or a volunteer who were all members of a tour group that meet regularly at the church).The roles were changing depending on the level of engagement (Artful Dementia Research Lab, 2021a).1. We use the term 'artists-cum-researchers' (cum = latin 'with') to describe practices in which artists and researchers collectively break with subject-object positions and other dichotomies related to art and research.

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