‘Withness’: Creative spectating for residents living with advanced dementia in care homes

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Astell-Burt, Caroline, McNally, Theresa, Collard-Stokes, Gemma and Irons, J. Yoon 2020. ‘Withness’: Creative spectating for residents living with advanced dementia in care homes. Journal of Applied Arts and Health. 11 (1-2), pp. pp. 125-133(9). https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00024_7
AuthorsAstell-Burt, Caroline, McNally, Theresa, Collard-Stokes, Gemma and Irons, J. Yoon
Abstract

Aiming to illustrate the potential for puppetry as a useful resource in dementia care, the authors argue unusually that play with puppets derives not particularly from drama or theatre, but fundamentally from the performative relationship people have with objects. The puppeteers of the study achieved remarkable emotional connection with care-home residents through an experience of puppetry, which dissolved the unitary autonomy of the puppet, recontextualizing it relationally as the puppeteer-with-puppet-with-spectator. It is this ‘withness’ that ignited the creative spark of presence of the residents. For a moment of trust and child-like joy kinaesthetic memories stirred in them, appearing to break down emotional barriers between the person and the world around them and indicating comparatively longer-term therapeutic benefits.

Keywordscare home; dementia; object; proximity; puppets; spectator; kinaesthetic memories
Year2020
JournalJournal of Applied Arts and Health
Journal citation11 (1-2), pp. pp. 125-133(9)
PublisherIntellect
ISSN2040-2457
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1386/jaah_00024_7
Web address (URL)http://hdl.handle.net/10545/625106
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https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/intellect/jaah/2020/00000011/f0020001/art00011
Publication dates01 Jul 2020
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Deposited21 Aug 2020, 14:28
Accepted11 Feb 2020
ContributorsLondon School of Puppetry and University of Derby
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