Tenshin’s belief that “art was a realization of life produced through the ages” is the inspiration to research that considers impacts of ‘spirt of place’ on the educational landscape. This presentation is informed by a practice of research-creation in the form of mediative art-making and writing conducted on location at Rokkakudo in Izura, Japan honouring spirt of place’s reliance on presence to accurately experience and record thoughts, feelings and intuitive contemplations supported by a qualitative research study into the history and artistic practice of Okakura Kakuzo (aka Tenshin).

This presentation will unpack findings of preliminary research which expands upon conceptual understandings of new materialism. As an ancient yet also evolving practice of indigenous knowledge, Shintoism exerts a rhizomatic influence on artistic practices that asks us to consider Deluzean ideas of nonhuman agency, Baradian theories of agency and Haraway’s “response-abilities” when considering new ways to consider cultural crisises and approach inclusion within the classroom. Considering invisible relationships between things and living beings inside and outside human at different scales of time and space, we are provoked to consider and call forth what and who exist within the realms of spirt of place to co-create future learning environments.

The presentation will explore evidence of the relevance of the growing mesh of indigenous knowledge and art education, and open up conversations unpacking and experimenting with the researcher’s sustainable art and energy practices which explore the budding fibers of educational perspectives mushrooming in and across ideas of time, creative energy and cellular memory.

Authors:
Amy Atkinson, Concordia University, Hong Kong

About the Presenter(s)
Amy Atkinson is a Ph.D. Candidate at Concordia University in Art Education, co-editor of the Canadian Art Teacher journal, and Head of Visual Arts at Canadian International School in Hong Kong.

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