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Get PDFIn this issue we are able to publish five research papers. I am happy to report that we can continue with explorations present in our last publication. We are able to show how research, which here, includes the experimental and case study research, that attends to the image, the objects present in art therapy, the non-verbal communication and the thinking that the processes of making facilitates in the setting, can move our understanding forward in fruitful and stimulating ways. The final research paper explores the image of art therapy itself and makes use of the internet and social media sites.
Processing Emotions and Memorising Coursework through Memory Drawing
Get PDFMemory of drawings and words were compared for 134 subjects in a quantitative research. Nine weeks after the initial encoding the median amount of recalled drawings was five times higher, than for written words. There was no difference between memorised drawings and words when recalling took place right after encoding. Qualitative case studies were also conducted which demonstrated the way in which memory drawing can facilitate coursework learning. The memory drawing and the therapeutic process indicated that sensitive emotional material can be brought up and processed through such drawings. Art therapy theories and methods were found to be important in terms of memory drawing in order to explore, understand and explain the function of memory drawing for processing emotions and facilitating memory of coursework. An art therapy framework was also found to be important for considering the ethics and drawing boundaries for the memory drawing method in order to create safe spaces for students and clients who engage in creating memory drawings within therapy or education.Keywords: Memory, drawing, art educational therapy (AET), trauma, coursework learning
The Magickal Body – Text and Image
Get PDFArtist’s Statement – Topography of Myth As a border walker I am continually exploring questions around the inherent meaning of fiction and myth, authority, power and cultural concepts of origin, using various methods in my practice as means to engage, wandering between installation, object, photography, printmaking and artists’ books, the inherent materiality being essential. Significantly, the relationship between the permanence of the porcelain, with the vulnerability of paper, hair and other organic material. Using a methodology of walking, whether drifting or purposefully revisiting certain places, I attempt to explore notions of genius loci, examining the topography of myth in order to map a forensics of transgressive happenings as essential to the human condition. In combining concepts of the stratalogical unconscious with the lay of the land, my practice continues to focus on notions of heterotopia, interweaving the psychogeographic experience with elements of esoteric initiation while questioning the shifting relations between the sacred and the profane in both urban and rural environments. My more recent work has furthermore engaged with feminist notions of the personal as political, taking the standpoint of an ‘other’ regarding the visceral experience of the witch in relation to nature and site, as interpreted through ritual performance. June 201
Volupté, Volume 1 Issue 2: Decadence, Magic(k), and the Occult
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Introduction - The Cavalry of the Clouds? New Research in the Development and Experience of Air Power in the British Empire during the First World War
Get PDFIn October 1917, the British Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, evocatively and memorably described Britain’s military aviators as ‘the cavalry of the clouds [...] the knighthood of this war’.1 In doing so, Lloyd George drew on a cultural motif that had been developing in Britain in the previous two decades. As aircraft became a practical reality, advocates of the new technology had influenced the public to see them as representative of a new epoch in human civilisation – the air age – and to perceive the aviators who flew them as ‘a special breed - that of the ultimate hero’.2 Ideas about aviation’s exceptionalism extended into the predictions and expectations that many had regarding its impact on future conflict. The most ardent adherents of the new religion of air-mindedness foresaw in the aircraft a decisive weapon: one that might even supplant the traditional arms of land and sea power in exercising a strategic influence in warfare
Trenchard’s Doctrine: Organisational Culture, the ‘Air Force spirit’ and the Foundation of the Royal Air Force in the Interwar Years
Get PDFWhile the Royal Air Force was born in war, it was created in peace. In his 1919 memorandum on the Permanent Organization of the Royal Air Force, Air Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard outlined his vision for the development of the Service. In this strategy, Trenchard developed the idea of generating an ‘Air Force spirit’ that provided the basis of the RAF’s development in the years after the First World War. The basis for this process was the creation of specific institutions and structures that helped generate a culture that allowed the RAF to establish itself as it dealt with challenges from its sister services. This article explores the character of that culture and ethos and in analysing the early years of the RAF through a cultural lens, suggests that Trenchard’s so-called ‘doctrine’ was focussed more on organisational developments rather than air power thinking as has often been suggested
Pigeons in the Trenches: animals, communications technologies and the British Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918
Get PDFHaving rejected their use before the war, the British Expeditionary Force established a Carrier Pigeon Service as a pragmatic response to the difficulties of maintaining frontline communications on the fire-swept battlefields of France and Flanders. The success of the service is a powerful illustration of the significant, if largely unheralded, role played by animals in modern warfare. It serves too, to warn against a tendency to over-emphasise the impact of the technologically-innovative in the writing of military history. Carrier pigeons may have been an ‘old’ technology, but, during the positional warfare of 1915-17, they were acknowledged to be of more practical utility for units in combat than wireless sets.
James Tanner, Instruments of Battle: The Fighting Drummers & Buglers of the British Army from the Late 17th Century to the Present Day
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