ART THERAPY

I am an intermedial art therapist, working with a person centred approach and a variety of art media accommodating the needs of my clients.

Besides drawing and painting, I am specialized in performance art, photography, video, animation, and installation. Following the legacy of Dada and Fluxus artists I provide a save space for playful exploration of life experiences, guided by mindfulness and awareness techniques, influenced by the Japanese contemporary dance and performance art from Butoh.

I am focusing on work-, as well as family-based stress & burn-out, anxiety or depression, loss, bereavement and grief, working long term as well as short term with adults, young adults and children.

I am fully registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT), Deutscher Fachverband für Kunst- und Gestaltungstherapie (DFKGT) in Germany, and the European Federation of Art Therapy (EFAT).

P U B L I C A T I O N: The Art(therap)ist Is Present (2019)

Puclication TATIP

ABSTRACT: This study investigates which aspects of Marina Abramović’s performance The Artist Is Present (2010) and the Japanese contemporary art form butoh foster—as well as support—emotionally driven, creative impulse recognition. It hypothesizes that aesthetic restraint in combination with embodied creative experience can provide a safe framework for the exploration and development of emotional resilience. Empirically this study is based on personal artistic exploration in the field of butoh and performance art, as well as expert talks with butoh artists Vangeline and Yumiko Yoshioka. Its theoretical framework draws from the findings of embodiment, the theory of resonance as proposed by Hartmut Rosa and the concept of aesthetic awareness described by Martin Seel. It also incorporates ideas of the unconscious, focusing on early neurological considerations of Sigmund Freud as well as systemic reconsiderations by Peter Fuchs. Finally, this study includes theories by neuropsychoanalist Mark Solms, as well as neuroscientists Heather A. Berlin and Lisa Feldmann Barrett. Barrett’s theory of constructed emotions is being highlighted and linked to butoh practice and the Abramović Method.

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