Becoming-a death through community creative practice Abby Buckley AARE 2017 Symposium: Innovative Research Projects From The Space Place Body Group

Sedimented Ontology & Epistemology Subjective | Internal Objective | External Personal I Experience Own thoughts, beliefs, values, emotions, memories, meanings IT Behaviour actions, performance Collective WE Culture Family/Tribe/Relationships Shared thoughts, beliefs, values, ITS Systems social, ecological Ken Wilber – Integral Theory – AQAL model

Locating my research in the liminal space Subjective | Internal Objective | External Personal I Experience Own thoughts, beliefs, values, emotions, memories, meanings IT Behaviour actions, performance Collective WE Culture Family/Tribe/Relationships Shared thoughts, beliefs, values, ITS Systems social, ecological How can I be in this world without Robbie? Ken Wilber – Integral Theory – AQAL model

crochet conversation construction craft Data 4Cs

Fibre of ‘a life’ and ‘a death’ - crochet

Death Café - conversation

Coffin making - construction

Coffin decorating – craft

Lost or found? An entanglement of a life and a death in that picture Language around death People tell me they are sorry for my loss What did I lose? I wasn’t a careless mother who lost her son at the supermarket Robbie died. As you can see I have found so much through robbies death. As I continue on this PhD journey I feel I am becoming a death in order to become a life – they are one in the same – the more I get lost in the liminal space od death the more I am found – the binary of life-death seems to have disintegrated in this space. A new ontology is emerging Maybe we can find the answers we need on how to live by rushing headlong into what we most fear – death.