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

2. 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

4. 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

5. crochet
conversation
construction
craft
Data
4Cs

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

7. Death Café - conversation

8. Coffin making - construction

9. Coffin decorating – craft

10. 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.