Utilising non-representational theories and practice-led research
methods, this book serves to reclaim therapeutics as ecological, spatial
and material. It examines the sites and performances of a wide range of
therapeutic art practices, including painting and drawing, dance
movement therapy, fibre art, subterranean graffiti practice, and poetic
permaculture. In doing so it provides an important assessment of the
role and status of therapy in contemporary life.
A highly interdisciplinary text, Boyd's research is informed by a
thorough reading of post-structural theory including contemporary
feminism, Guattari's ethico-aesthetic paradigm, Whitehead's
process-oriented ontology, and Deleuze's writing on sense and the event.
This innovative study will prove essential for scholars and
practitioners of cultural geography, socially-engaged art, therapeutic
studies, and occupational therapy.