Pengembangan Model Layanan Pendidikan Creative Art Play Therapy bagi Anak Berkebutuhan Khusus

This study aims to design a model of creative art play therapy education services to overcome various basic problems in providing friendly services for children with special needs (ABK) at Azura Sejati Inklusif PAUD Lhokseumawe. This study uses the Research and Development Borg and Gall method. The subjects in this study were teachers at the Azura Sejati Inklusif PAUD Lhokseumawe. The data used are qualitative and quantitative data, with data collection techniques through observation, interviews, documentation, questionnaires, and Focus Group Discussions (FGD). The data analysis technique used descriptive statistical analysis and inferential statistics. The results showed that the creative art play therapy educational service model was effectively used to provide friendly services for children with special needs (ABK) in dealing with social problems and self-control. All creative art play processes (1) creative visualization can stimulate children's understanding and thought processes; (2) storytelling activities can develop moral and spiritual; (3) drama can improve social relations, hand puppets and masks have been used to protect themselves; (4) art to develop creativity and aesthetic experience; (5) music to communicate; (6) dance and movement to develop physical motor skills.

Functions of Literature

Literature is an open concept and a creative art which expresses human history, experiences, imagination, observations, predictions and suggestions at a particular time in a given society. Either as fiction or non-fiction, literature can be rendered in both spoken and written words. It is often argued whether literature is for itself or the development of the society that produces it. This study, therefore, interrogates how the selected Francophone African novels, namely Sembène Ousmane’s Les bouts de bois de Dieu, Mariama Bâ’s Une si longue lettre, Ferdinand Oyono’s Le vieux nègre et la médaille, Aminata Sow Fall’s La grève des bàttu, Patrick Ilboudo’s Les vertiges du trône and Fatou Keïta’s Rebelle, depict the function of literature. The novelists are selected because of their inclination towards the social transformation paradigm. The purpose of this paper is to raise people’s awareness and mobilize them towards positive change. Based on close reading, the paper is built around Marxist theory which is interested in the class struggle as demonstrated in a literary text, with a view to deconstructing the existing capitalist tendencies in a given society. The findings reveal that the selected novels are focused on the poor conditions socio-politically, economically, culturally and psychologically that exist both during and after the colonial era. The paper concludes that literature helps readers to cope with the socio-cultural, political, economic, religious and other challenges of their immediate as well as remote environments through the process of self-discovery. As such, positive social change is possible through literature.

Crafting Life Stories in Photocollage: An Online Creative Art-Based Intervention for Older Adults

Creative arts therapies (CAT) provide a safe and creative environment for older adults to process life experiences and maintain personal growth while aging. There is a growing need to make creative arts therapies more accessible to the aging population, as many have limited access to these services. This need has been catalyzed by the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tele-CAT offers a possible solution. This study explored the experiences of older adults who participated in an online creative process of digital photocollage based on CAT. Twenty-four Italian and Israeli community-dwelling older adults aged 78 to 92 participated in this research through Zoom teleconferencing software. Transcriptions of the sessions and the art produced through the photocollage were qualitatively analyzed through Thematic Analysis. The findings show that the projective stimuli of digital photographs supported older adults’ narratives and engaged them in a more embodied emotional experience. Participant experiences involved artistic enjoyment within a positive and safe interaction with therapists. The creation of digital photocollages allowed the participants to process their life experiences and create an integrative view of their life, a vital developmental task in late life. These results point to the advantages and challenges of tele-CAT for older adults.

PROBLEMS OF TERMINOLOGY WITHIN THE CONCEPT OF «UKRAINIAN LAND ART»

Fundamental art studies in the field of land art are not yet available in Ukraine, and individual articles in periodicals do not reveal the principles of the formation of the actual Ukrainian art of the environment, its features and differences from abroad land art. To date, the phenomenon of Ukrainian land art has not received its own term and for thirty years in a row uses the borrowed foreign name «land art», while the uniqueness of domestic environmental art is an indisputable fact. The article considers the peculiarities of the formation of land art abroad and in the system of Ukrainian contemporary art. The analysis and clarification of terminology related to land art in Ukraine has been carried out. The author's term for the phenomenon of the Ukrainian land art is offered. The study found that the application of the foreign term «land art» to the domestic art of interaction with the environment is not exhaustive, because it does not reveal the full range of creative communication of artists with the environment and is too narrow in relation to it. At that time, the term «mystectvo dovkillja» («art of the environment»), introduced by P. Bevza, is too wide a range of artistic creativity, where «environment» is used in the sense of «environment» as one that contains the entire surrounding space. Therefore, it isn't inexpedient to apply the foreign term «land art» to the creative practices of Ukrainian artists. At the same time, «art of the environment» is too abstract a concept for the term «land art», which aims at a specific creative interaction with the earth. Environmental art aims to decorate and equip a person's place of residence, which expresses his utilitarianism and may include: both landscape art and landscape design and monumental art, site-specific art, ecological art, as preservation and repair of the Earth's resources, etc. Domestic artists work with natural materials in the natural environment in order to create a new art product. Accordingly, instead of the term «Ukrainian land art» it is appropriate to use the term «pryrodotvorche mystectvo» («natural creative art»), because the context of the Ukrainian art form is characterized by creative interaction with the natural environment and materials as a way to create a new art product. Theoretical research of the work is the basis for further in-depth scientific development of the problem, namely, the phenomenon of land art in the system of contemporary art of Ukraine.

Exploring Embodied Place Attachment Through Co‐Creative Art Trajectories: The Case of Mount Murals

The built and living environment in the Flemish region in Belgium is evolving noticeably. It is densifying at an ever‐faster pace and, along the way, becoming increasingly unfamiliar to its inhabitants. Many people face profound difficulties in autonomously and positively dealing with such drastic changes, causing their feeling of home to waver. Triggered by these challenges and supported by the local authority of a Flemish town, the experimental and co‐creative art project Mount Murals set out to stimulate new embodied interactions between and among local residents of various ages and backgrounds and with their built environment. These include remembering place‐related sentiments, being aware of body language that plays between participants while co‐creating and sensing an invigorating stimulus when seeing results. Awakening intrinsic appreciation in people for their own environment and associated social relationships stimulates an inclusive dealing with estranged relationships in space. Referring to the relational neuroscience principles attachment, co‐creating and co‐regulating as a modus of relational resonating, we explore how and under which conditions Mount Murals’ co‐creative art trajectory supports an evolving embodied place attachment, an essential element of the sense of belonging, in participants. By embedding assets inherent to art creation in action research and starting with meaningful everyday objects, Mount Murals carries forward an art expression that considers the co‐creation process and its co‐creative products as equally important.

Radical Empiricism: William James and Gilles Deleuze

Both William James and Gilles Deleuze labeled their philosophies "radical empiricism." In this context, this essay explores the similarities and differences between James's radical empiricism (particularly as it is present early inches Principles of Psychology) and Deleuze's "transcendental empiricism" (particularly as set forth in The Logic of Sense). These accounts then inform a view of philosophy understood as a creative art. This art demands flexible habits--what James termed "genius"--in a changing world. Accordingly, radically empirical accounts of creativity and genius are sketched.

Artistic and cultural aspects of signs and symbols in creative art

The purpose of the article is to introduce into art historical and cultural discourse of theoretically processed, generalized, analyzed information regarding the understanding of the meaning of symbols and signs in cultural studies and art historian scientists; Clarification of the root causes of the occurrence of basic concepts in cognitive anthropology. The methodology is based on the method of critical analysis of cultural, art historical, and literary sources; semiotic method; induction and deduction methods; historical, logical, and method of interdisciplinary synthesis. Scientific Novelty. Intrutded to the past experience of scientists, philosophers, art historians, culturalologists bring the need to pay attention to the meaning of symbols and signs in art history and cultural studies. The origins of the origin of the basic concepts of cognitive anthropology are found out. The author's vision of the badge and symbolism of the non-verbal language is set out, which is assimilated through the mastery of the national culture and requires intellectual efforts, corresponds to the N. Chomsky hypothesis, according to which the nature of knowledge, its use, material or physical mechanisms, the formation of the knowledge base and its application are associated with cognitive ability man in general. A modern approach to discuss issues on perceptual, security-indexed, subject-functional and other codes in the perception of reality are considered. The newest achievements of foreign and domestic researchers in the definitions of semiotic terminology, logical justifications of symbols and signs in cultural studies, and art historian examination were studied and analyzed. Conclusions. The results of the study of literary sources on this topic provided the opportunity to draw conclusions that in the analyzed editions of many authors was given insufficient attention to the origin of the terms of cognitive anthropology in the presentation of scientific material.

The Dello Scompliglio Project and Camera #3 (Chamber 3

This Perspectives’ (or Review) paper focusses on the interdisciplinary, communal artproject: Dello Scompliglio and one of its multi-layered, hybridised artprojects presented  there, titled: Camera# 3 (Chamber 3). I visited both the project spaces and some of the externalart projects including the one above during a visit to Lucca in June, 2021. Theaim of the Association is to offer to musicians, performers, installationartists and dancers the possibility to create their work in an outdoorenvironment and recreate this as a transmutation in the performance andexhibition spaces. I found the range of creative art topics covered, which areaimed at varying age groups, to be fascinating and very relevant tocontemporary experimental and digital performance.