Open AccessThe Digital Shrine: Community-Engaged Art and Sharing of Memory With Seniors
Author(s) -
Patti Fraser
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
learning landscapes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1913-5688
DOI - 10.36510/learnland.v9i2.773
Subject(s) - merge (version control) , narrative , the arts , digital storytelling , storytelling , memory work , visual arts , sociology , creativity , event (particle physics) , community of practice , media studies , art , psychology , pedagogy , computer science , social psychology , philosophy , physics , literature , epistemology , quantum mechanics , information retrieval
This narrative re ects on the artist’s involvement in two separate community-engaged art projects: a public event created to memorialize the dead and a digital storytelling project at a Seniors Centre in North Vancouver, B.C. Through a personal arts-based inquiry into ritual and memory, the two projects merge and begin to inform the artist’s work with seniors. The inquiry helps to deepen a sense of shared community and to de ne what a genuine community-engaged practice may be. This article inquires into why art matters in community-engaged work and how creative practice can create new structures of learning and deepen bonds within community.