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"Creative Dialogue" in Berlin ein Erfolg
Am 16. September haben das DIJuF aus
Heidelberg und die Universität Osnabrück, als deutsche Partner im EU-Projekt
„Cultural Encounters in Intervention Against Violence“ (CEINAV), zu einem kreativen
Workshop eingeladen, um die Möglichkeiten zu beleuchten, die Kunst zur besseren
Verständigung über Erfahrungen von Betroffenen mit der Intervention leisten
kann. Er fand in Räumen der „WeiberWirtschaft eG“ in Berlin statt; für die
Frauenhauskoordinierung nahm Heike Herold teil.
Nachdem im ersten Projektjahr die
Perspektive der Fachkräfte im Mittelpunkt stand (vgl. „working papers“ hier im
Projektblog)
haben die beiden deutschen Teams in diesem Jahr insgesamt 27
Mit "Fusspartituren" haben die Betroffenen ihren Weg durch die Intervention gezeigt |
Interviews mit
Frauen und mit Jugendlichen durchgeführt, die Interventionserfahrungen nach
häuslicher Gewalt, Frauenhandel, oder Inobhutnahme aufgrund von Gewalt oder
Vernachlässigung in der Kindheit erlebt hatten. Dabei wurden besonders
InterviewpartnerInnen gesucht, die einen Minderheiten- oder
Migrationshintergrund haben.
Im Sommer wurden die
InterviewpartnerInnen eingeladen, an einem Kunstworkshop teilzunehmen, in dem sie
mit Unterstützung einer professionellen Künstlerin selber ihre
Interventionserfahrungen mit den Mitteln der Kunst darstellen konnten. Die
Künstlerin, Ninette Rothmüller, bot den TeilnehmerInnen Material und
Möglichkeiten an, mit unterschiedlichen Medien kreativ zu werden, und es wurde
dann auch eine Vielfalt von Kunstformen verwendet: Malen, Zeichnen, Wortbilder
und Gedichte, ein Quilt, eine Audiodatei, ein Guckkasten. Diese Kunst sowie
drei eigene Werke der Künstlerin zum Thema waren bei dem Berlinworkshop nun ausgestellt,
und auch die meisten der Kunstschaffenden waren anwesend
Es war eine bunte und
zugleich ausgeglichene Mischung: Teilgenommen haben vier Gruppen:
sechs Frauen
(darunter eine Jugendliche), die in Kunstworkshops Bilder über ihre Erfahrungen
geschaffen haben; sieben Fachkräfte aus der Interventionspraxis (zu häuslicher
Gewalt, Frauenhandel, oder Schutz von misshandelten oder vernachlässigten
Kindern), sechs Vertreterinnen der Praxisnetzwerke, die seit 2013 das Projekt
beratend begleiten (KOK, bff und IGfH), und fünf Teammitglieder der beiden
Forschungspartner. Es entstanden lebhafte und sehr spannende Gespräche. Eine
externe Moderatorin sorgte u.a. dafür, dass in der Gruppenarbeit die
verschiedenen Perspektiven präsent waren. Die Künstlerin, die die Workshops
geleitet hat, konnte in Berlin nicht persönlich dabei sein, nahm aber per Video
und Skype teil.
Interventionsgeschichte in einem Quilt und eine lebhafte Diskussion |
In der Schlussrunde haben die Künstlerinnen den Wert dieser Erfahrung für sie selbst betont. Mit der Die Vieldeutigkeit der Kunst und der Reflexion über sie erweitern den Horizont und ermöglicht, im
Nachdenken vor einem Kunstwerk von Ninette |
"War die Zeit für die Gruppenarbeit genug, zu wenig, zu viel?" |
"Creative Dialogue" in Berlin a success
The two
German partners in CEINAV jointly organised an all-day „Creative Dialogue“ workshop
with associate partners (national umbrella organisations of NGOs and
practitioners), women and young people who had created art works reflecting on
their intervention experiences, and professionals who had participated in the
2014 workshops. It took place on September 16 in Berlin. On the day before, the
two research teams from Heidelberg and Osnabrück met with representatives of
the associate partners to discuss interim results of the project. The creative
dialogue was focused entirely on the art work exhibited, and sought to explore
the possibilities of using art to further better understanding between
professionals and the recipients of intervention.
The
workshop drew on the research activities of CEINAV. During 2015 the two
research teams
Participants portrayed pathways through intervention through "foot prints" |
carried out a total of 27 interviews with women and young people
who had experienced intervention due to domestic violence, trafficking for
sexual exploitation, or removal from the family due to abuse or neglect.
Particular efforts were made to find interview partners with a migration or
minority background.
The women
and young people were then invited to participate in art workshops led by an
artist-researcher, Ninette Rothmüller. The artist prepared the workshops,
bringing a variety of art materials and offering the participants a range of
options for the kind of art work they would like to undertake, and a variety of
different “products” were made: paintings, drawings, word pictures, poetry, a
quilt, an audiotape, and a peep-box. Outside these workshops the artist, who is
herself a sculptor, also created three art works of her own reflecting on
themes that emerged from how interviewees described their intervention
experience. All of the art work was on exhibit in rooms where the creative
dialogue was held, and almost all of the artists took part in the workshop.
The „creative
dialogue“ workshop was made up of four equal-size groups: six women who had
been creative in the art workshops (five women who had
survived domestic
violence and one adolescent with child protection experience), seven
professionals with experience in intervention in one or more of the forms of
violence that CEINAV is studying, six representatives of the associate partners
who have contributed the perspective of practitioners to CEINAV since 2013, and
five researchers from the two partners. An external facilitator from Heidelberg
moderated the workshop through the day, ensuring that discussion groups had a
mix of these different perspectives. The artist-researcher who had led the art
workshops was unable to be in Berlin but was present by video, giving an introduction
to how the art workshops had been run, as well as explanatory notes to her own
art work, and participated in a Skype discussion with all participants.
Intervention experience in a quilt and a lively discussion |
In the
closing reflective discussion, the artists who had exhibited their work
emphasized the value of this experience for themselves. The intervention
professionals found that through art work emotional
Pondering Ninettes artwork |
depths could be reached
more quickly than in advisory talks, and that with the art, these feelings
could be expressed in simple words. Unspoken aspects can thus find their way
into speech. (This has added value for women with a migration background, who
may not be fluent in German.) The ambiguities inherent in art and the process
of reflecting on these widen the horizon and make it possible to take a variety
of different directions in conversation. Conversations that do not have such a
reference point often tend to develop in a more “linear” way. Thus, a space of
freedom of action is opened up, not only for the ones who created the art, but
also for the professionals, enabling both to “feel their way” forward taking a
reflective approach. Professional and artist meet as equals, and this can even
reverse the hierarchy in their intervention relationship, in which the
counsellor is the expert and the person seeking help asks questions. Here, the
ones who created art were the experts, and the professionals sought help and
advice in order to understand. This changes their relationship, and is, they
said, an altogether different process from the established methods of art
therapy.
Some
professionals explicitly said they would like to carry this experience over
into their practical work, but it remained an open question how this can be
done. In addition, it was said that art representing the experience of the
recipients of intervention could be a means of making marginalized voices heard,
and it could be used to advantage in further training with professionals to
encourage them to reflect on their own intervention practice.
"Was the time for the group work enough, too little, too long?" |
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