Dolls4Peace Memorial: Liberatory Community Art Action and Praxis

Rochele Royster

doi:10.15845/voices.v21i1.3153

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Rochele Royster Art Therapy & Counseling, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

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https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v21i1.3153

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Kunsttherapie, Gemeindepsychologie, soziale Aufklärung, sozialer Wohnungsbau, Segregation, Waffengewalt, Widerstand, Puppenmachen, Mahnmal

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Abstract

Dieses Community- und kunstbasierte partizipatorische Forschungsprojekt umfasst gemeinschaftliche künstlerische Aktionen (Kunst als Therapie), welche den Aufbau von Community, die Heilung und den Widerstand gegen systemische Unterdrückung und Gewalt zum Ziel haben. Genutzt wird dabei ein humanökologischer Ansatz. Des Weiteren geht es in diesem Projekt um Selbstfürsorge, Selbstermächtigung und Sinnstiftung. Von Waffengewalt betroffene Communities sollen wieder gestärkt und geheilt werden. Hierfür nehmen die TeilnehmerInnen an Community-basierter Kunsttherapie teil. Das „Doll-Project“ wurde als ein basisdemokratischer Ansatz für sozialen Wandel durch Kunst konzipiert. Folge soll ein immer fortlaufender Zyklus von Entstehung, Reflexion und Handlung sein. Die größte Hoffnung im „Doll-Project“ ist es, eine Welle von Heilung und Verständnis in den betroffenen Communities Chicagos hervorzurufen. Der Prozess zielte darauf ab, die Communities anzuregen und sich die Kunst zu Nutzen zu machen, Machtverhältnisse zu verschieben und Hierarchien zu verflachen. Vor allem diejenigen, die am meisten von Gewalt betroffen sind, sollen Führungspositionen erlangen. Die Kunst des Puppenmachens wurde genutzt, um den Opfern der Stadt zu gedenken, die in den Jahren mit extrem hohen Todesraten durch Waffengewalt zu Tode gekommen sind. Gleichzeitig schafft diese Kunst ein Mahnmal des Widerstands und ruft zu durch die Community-gestützten adaptiven Veränderungspraktiken in Bezug auf soziale Gleichheit, Verbundenheit und Befreiung auf. Zwei Fragen werden in dieser Forschung besonders herausgehoben: Wie beeinflusst Waffengewalt schulische Communities in marginalisierten und weitestgehend isolierten städtischen Vierteln? Wie können Überlebende und ZeugInnen von Waffengewalt am besten unterstützt werden?

Autor/innen-Biografie

Rochele Royster, Art Therapy & Counseling, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Rochele Royster, Ph.D, ATR-BC is an artist, art therapist, community psychologist and educator in Chicago. She has worked for the last 20 years integrating art therapy into the educational setting working with neurodivergent youth, adolescents and their families. She has taught at the Department of Art Therapy and Counseling at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Depaul University (Department of Education) and Adler School of Psychology (Clinical Psychology Department Doctoral Program). Using a transdisciplinary approach, she is interested in community and school-based art therapy; race, power and policy in education, multisensory methods in reading and literacy, trauma informed classrooms; environmental justice; black disability and special education as it relates to liberation of pedagogy and practice in institutional and public settings. Her dissertation developed as a grassroots approach to arts-based social change and addresses gun violence, death and grief through memorials of resistance. She assisted in creating transformative art based social justice curriculum for Cities of Peace/Jane Addams Hull House, The Teacher Institute/ Museum of Contemporary Art, Office of Arts and Education at Chicago Public Schools and has conducted workshop series for Chicago Park District Young Cultural Stewards and Art Seed teaching artists. She has also worked with sexual, domestic violence and human trafficking survivors and Cambodian youth refugees. Rochele is a member of the Board of Directors for the American Art Therapy Association. In Summer 2021, Rochele will join Syracuse University as Assistant Professor of Art Therapy in the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

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Doll4Peace Memorial

Eine freie Community-basierte Kunstaktion und -praxis

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