1,720,971 research outputs found
Il Giappone contemporaneo tra sogno e realtà
No full textLa pubblicazione ha fatto seguito a un evento culturale tenutosi l’11 giugno 2021, patrocinato dal Consolato Generale del Giappone a Milano, intitolato La musica è l’occhio dell’orecchio: il Giappone contemporaneo tra sogno e realtà. Rispettando la stessa struttura dell’evento, il volume è un’opera fotografica suddivisa in tre sezioni: sogno, realtà, tra sogno e realtà, ognuna delle quali preceduta da una descrizione introduttiva, che riporta sintetici approfondimenti culturali e le parole della fotografa. Il Quaderno è stato pubblicato nel marzo 2022 da Sara Rossatelli e Sofia Rossatelli, dottoranda in nipponistica presso l’Università degli Studi di Milano, in collaborazione con l’associazione culturale PalinSesto
Eating Disorders in Today’s Japan and the Effectiveness of Art Therapies
No full textSome Japanese government measures such as the "Metabo Law" of 2008, and sociocultural factors like the aesthetic models promoted by today's idols and TV series put pressure on the national population about precise physical canons, especially in body weight. In certain cases, these elements unintentionally favour the onset of eating disorders.
Furthermore, since the beginning of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic and its consequences have put a strain on the psychological strength of individuals in every part of the world. At times, this has brought them into stress, anxiety, and even psychic diseases. Among the latter, in Japan there has been a drastic increase in eating disorders, especially among young people.
In recent years, the effectiveness of art therapies for people with eating disorders is being studied in many countries. This contribute aims to exemplify some successful art therapeutic activities, that could be seen as inspirational models for today's Japanese situation
Kusama Yayoi and Traditional Japanese Art
No full textKusama Yayoi (b. 1929) is one of the world's most famous contemporary artists. However, only certain elements of her career are best-known, which are often used to emphasise her vision as an “unconventional artist with psychiatric disorders”. Yet another interesting and overlooked element can be gleaned from her biography and artistic experience: the ability to embrace and live with the modern innovations of technological progress without necessarily neglecting tradition. The ingredients that make her style so original and distinctive are the subject of much attention and research. However, the incorporation of more traditional elements very often takes the back seat. For this reason, I would like to focus on the latter, and present, together with a critical analysis, five emblematic examples of Kusama's pictorial and sculptural works that have the flavour and charm of the Japanese artistic tradition.
This paper will focus on the artistic choices made by Kusama, including the use of specific materials such as torinokogami, traditional Japanese paper used especially in her pencil drawings comparable to 19th century Japanese floral woodblock prints, and artistic representation techniques such as nihonga. It will also examine the significance of certain emblematic colours such as red on a white background, the inclusion of the natural element (especially vegetation) as a subject of her artworks, and other symbolic elements such as butterflies.
It is the intention of this study to highlight the originality of Kusama's work, which can be seen in her ability to engage with elements that are commonly regarded as traditional and to combine them with her own distinctive avant-garde stylistic signature in the same creative process.
The research uses artistic analysis as well as primary sources that provide direct evidence of Kusama Yayoi's biographical and artistic experiences
桜のワークショップ
No full text絵画療法や作業療法を通して参加者の皆さんと一緒に様々な作品を制作しました。
表現アートセラピー さくらの絵を描こう (自由参加)では、NPO法人IPSO MOMO部門 金崎 裕美様、(アシスタント) ROSSATELLI SOFIA(ロッサテッリ ソフィア)様の協力のもと、絵画療法として皆さんと一緒に桜の花びらを自由に散りばめた立体的な桜の絵を作成しました。みなさん自分の世界に浸り、集中して取り組んでおられ、ストレス緩和になった、と感想を述べられていました
The Effectiveness of Art Therapy in Addressing Social Anxiety in Contemporary Japan: Two Case Studies
No full textAmong the most prevalent mental disorders in Japan in recent times is the social anxiety disorder. Over the past decade, there has been a concerted effort to adapt the psychological and psychiatric treatment system, which remains controversial in some respects, to the growing number of individuals afflicted by these disorders. Worth noting is the integration of outreach care and of art therapies,
especially those based on plastic and pictorial arts. This is explained by reference to two Japanese ateliers, which have been identified as notable case studies: Kokoro-karada-art (Kyoto) and Soteria
Art Circle (Tokyo). The study's first objective is to assess the efficacy of art-therapeutic activities through the analysis of data obtained from semi-structured interviews conducted with the individuals
delivering the art-therapeutic activities. The second objective is to provide a qualitative analysis of a sample of users who have undergone such treatments. The study employs a multidisciplinary
approach, integrating psychological theory and previous Japanese social-historical studies with qualitative field research, conducted through on-site visits and interviews with the selected users.
Furthermore, a graphic apparatus, comprising works created by the aforementioned users, serves as a visual representation of the findings
The Process of Artistic Creation as a Source of Wellbeing: The Case Studies of Kusama Yayoi and of the NPO Tokyo Soteria Art Circle’s Artists
No full textThis research aims to verify the therapeutic effectiveness of the creative process of visual art in today’s Japan. The analysis will focus on two case studies: the artistic activities of Kusama Yayoi and of the NPO Tokyo Soteria Art Circle’s clients. For both the protagonists of the case studies, artistic creativity seems to be the only way to define their own identity, and to reduce or eliminate their psychic distress, aggravated by the Japanese sociocultural pressures.
In reference to the case of the famous Japanese artist Kusama Yayoi (b. 1929), her creative experience, that she (also poetically) has described as a guarantor of her own survival, is analysed. Furthermore, the voices of the critics about some Kusama’s artworks, that have made her style unique and recognizable all over the world, are taken into consideration. Even without having (yet) reached Kusama's level of fame, also most of the clients of the NPO Tokyo Soteria’s atelier have managed to replace their social stigma of “psychiatric patients” with the appreciable definition of “outsider artists.” To highlight this aspect, reference is made to their verbal testimonies, obtained through a personal interview mediated by the head of the atelier, and to some of their artistic creations, already
internationally exhibited. Looking at the case studies, it becomes clear how the creative process of visual art can be a useful tool in the pursuit of wellbeing, especially for those who suffer from mental disorders that hinder their everyday life in today’s Japanese sociocultural canons
The importance of art-therapies in contemporary world. Japan: NPO Tokyo Soteria Art Circle as supporter of the fragile selves
No full textToday, psychological problems and the need for individual expression are gaining in importance, in fact psychological and psychiatric centres are increasing in numbers all over the world. These structures’ professionals offer counselling and treatment to their patients, often using verbal communication as the only method to interact with them. However, this may not be the most effective way, especially for individuals who cannot express themselves orally at best. In such circumstances, art-therapies can represent new means of communication. Indeed, using the good effects of the creative experience, so definable “flow or optimal experience” according to the theory of the well-known psychologist Csíkszentmihályi (1934-2021), makes this kind of psychotherapy very successful.
This study aims to outline the creative activity in art-therapeutic ateliers as a possible solution to support the fragile selves of contemporary Japan, society still today characterised by some social collectivised and hierarchical structures. In this context, the individuals are considered as “Interdependent Selves” – according to the 1991’s definition of Markus and Kitayama –, who exist as in relation with their belonging community. The functioning of the collective becomes riskily liable to be hindered or modified in its success by subjects with a strong original expressive need or with any psychic or physical discomfort, therefore generally marginalised. It is precisely to protect and welcome such fragile selves that in 2009 the pioneering NPO Tokyo Soteria, led by Hirofumi Noguchi, has been established. The organization promotes the guests’ independence in a familiar atmosphere, with constantly present staff, available for the physical, mental, recovery and therapeutic needs of the guests of the community. Within Soteria’s activities, particularly relevant are the ones of the art-therapeutic atelier Tokyo Soteria Art Circle which, for years in close collaboration with the mental health department of the ASL of Bologna, has also exposed the artworks created by its patients on the latest editions of the Festival of Outsider Art. The artistic creations produced in the atelier allow each patient to find or rediscover his/her own identity, previously clouded by the stigma of his/her physical or mental discomfort. After having acquired a greater self-confidence by means of art, the individual starts to play a new role also within the community, or the society to which he/she belongs. Given its achievements, Tokyo Soteria Art Circle provides us with the tools to analyse and further develop an already exemplary model of support for the fragile selves in contemporary Japan.
In consideration of their efficacy, such therapies should not be addressed just to patients with severe diseases, but they could also be used, for example, in educational institutions, where young people often become victims of unexpressed struggling
The Impact of Some Socio-Cultural Factors and of Covid-19 on Eating Disorders in Today's Japan. Art Therapies as a Possible Co-Solution
No full textStarting from an examination of some Japanese government measures, and of socio-cultural factors, this research will analyse how such elements put pressure on the national population about precise physical canons considered "healthy", especially with regard to body weight. Emphasis will be placed on the risk that these elements continue to unintentionally favour a growing range of eating disorders, one above all anorexia nervosa (restricting type). Added to this is the fact that since the beginning of 2020, the Covid 19 pandemic and its consequences have put a strain on the psychological strength of individuals. In some cases, this has led them into stress, anxiety, and even psychiatric disorders, which drastically increased in Japan, mostly developing as eating disorders especially among young people (Harada et al. 2020). In many other countries, however, numerous recent studies on the effectiveness of art therapies for people with eating disorders have been gaining ground. After analysing some of these studies at a theoretical and practical level, the aim of this contribution is to identify in them sources of inspiration also for today's Japan, whose culture has always been strongly characterised by the protagonism of images and visual art
La funzione terapeutica delle arti per l'espressione dell'identità individuale nel Giappone odierno
No full textL’intervento mira a presentare alcune metodiche giapponesi di arteterapia e a considerarne l’efficacia anche come strumento per l’emersione dell’identità individuale in relazione all’identità nazionale e ai neotradizionalismi e nazionalismi che caratterizzano il Giappone odierno.
Fra le sedi più innovative, divenute protagoniste di una intensa ricerca sul campo sia in Giappone sia in Italia, si intende analizzare in particolare le tecniche del centro NPO Tokyo Soteria, fondato nel 2009 e in contatto con il Dipartimento di Salute Mentale ospedaliero di Bologna
- …
