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The chapter discusses resonances emerging from the extension of a somatic-informed creative practice into an arts-activist context concerned with social inclusion and cultural transformation. It reflects upon arts activist projects undertaken in collaboration with biologist/arts-activist Stefania Milazzo in Sicily and Dresden, Germany between 2008 and 2015. The author discusses how a Feldenkrais-informed socially engaged arts practice can serve as a vessel to construct a shared dignified experience between participants, where trust, imagination and empathy are challenged and schooled, through awared and playful interaction. What sort of cultural capital and social learning do we need in our contemporary world of increasing global crises? How do we construct global citizenship through spirited experiential learning situations? Can a shared embodied practice allow us to move beyond being cultural bystanders towards being creative and empathetic activists? Can we still imagine and design a better future world and develop compassionate ways of interaction with an-other? |
