Not Your Ex/Rotic: Resource of Note: Journal of Applied Arts & Health

Monday, 11 June 2012

Resource of Note: Journal of Applied Arts & Health

Journal of Applied Arts & Health

ISSN: 20402457
Online ISSN: 20402465
First published in 2010
3 issues per volume

The Journal of Applied Arts and Health serves a wide community of artists, researchers, practitioners and policy-makers evidencing the effectiveness of the interdisciplinary use of arts in health and arts for health. It provides a forum for the publication and debate within an interdisciplinary field of arts in healthcare and health promotion. The journal defines ‘health’ broadly which includes physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, occupational, social and community health.
The journal provides artists, researchers, healthcare professionals, educators, therapists, programme administrators and funding bodies an opportunity to report and reflect upon innovative effective practices. The effectiveness of applied arts practices is currently under-researched and this journal provides a vehicle for high quality scholarly activity. The journal embraces contributions of an international dimension.

A free issue is available for online viewing.

No comments:

Post a Comment

about

This documents the project process, ideas, and work by Creatrix Tiara for the MFA in Creative Inquiry, Interdisciplinary Arts at the California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco.

Not Your Ex/Rotic started as a presentation at the Erotic Screen and Sound conference at Griffith University, Brisbane in early 2011. Much of the content of the presentation - and eventually this MFA - is based on the experiences and politics of Creatrix Tiara as a queer female migrant minority being involved in burlesque and other forms of sexually-charged creative expression.

The project title comes from a 2009 burlesque performance staged by Tiara (as Tiara the Merch Girl) in response to the racism and cultural appropriation experienced in the local burlesque scene: at the end of the performance Tiara performs an adaptation of Not Your Exotic by American-Palestinian poet Suheir Hammad, which ends with the line "Not your erotic, not your exotic".

Tiara aims to explore the challenges and needs of fellow queer minorities (especially South Asians like Tiara) and other multiple minorities in expressing and exploring their sexuality creatively, dealing with the multiple blows of stigma and shame from home cultures, and prejudice & bigotry from the outside. "I wish I could do what you do, but my parents would kill me" - how do we make it possible for those who tell Tiara this to do what they want to do without harm or retribution?

At the same time she wants to reexplore San Francisco, a city that captured her heart last year when she was there for an artist residency at CELLspace for 3 months, and wishes to pick up where she left off.