Mantra as Medium
Cultivating Necessary Wisdom in Aesthetic Inquiry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22124102 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brooke Anne Hofse (0000-0001-8738-0808, Appalachian State University, corresponding author), Brooke Anne Hofsess |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 278-308 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Art/Research International A Transdisciplinary Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2371-3771 • E-ISSN: 2371-3771 |
| Publisher | University of Alberta Libraries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18432/ari29430 |
| OpenAlex | W3089509037 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
My quest for necessary wisdom about mothering, teaching, researching—coalescing here as art and research—comes by way of a mantra enacted between mother and daughter onto the world: milk, heat, time. An awareness of mantra as methodologically potent occurred through the artistic practice of drawing with mother’s milk, heat, and time. Traveling through the twists and overlaps of my complicated existence as a mother, artist, teacher, and researcher this paper offers three imaginable potencies for arts-based research: mantra unfolds myth, mantra intensifies listening, and mantra generates reciprocity. This contemplatively and performatively crafted text brings to light these three potencies through multiple modes of data-creation: mantra, time, drawing, sensation, song, memory, connection, affect, photographs, writing, and materiality. Linger with me in the place where unconsumed mother’s milk—fat and water separating in plastic sleeves and bound for the trash in a university childcare setting— coalesced with cultural myths of breastfeeding, embodied memories of labor and returning to work after childbirth, grassy-scented infant’s breath, lullabies, milk scorching on a hot iron, cotton clothing, silver salts embedded in light-sensitive paper, and more. Linger and listen—water, bodies, stories, hidden, unhidden
Active listening · Aesthetics · Art · Attunement · Literature · Mantra · Mythology · Sociology · Theology · Visual arts · Art Education and Development · Communication · Medicine · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |