TY - JOUR

T1 - The Presence of Grief

T2 - Research-Based Art and Arts-Based Research on Grief

AU - Brinkmann, Svend

AU - Brescó, Ignacio

AU - Kofod, Ester Holte

AU - Køster, Allan

AU - Overvad, Anna Therese

AU - Petersen, Anders

AU - Suhr, Anne

AU - Tateo, Luca

AU - Wagoner, Brady

AU - Winther-Lindqvist, Ditte

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2018.

PY - 2019/11/1

Y1 - 2019/11/1

N2 - The authors involved in the creation of this text collaborate on a research project called The Culture of Grief, which explores the current conditions and implications of grief. The authors mostly employ conventional forms of qualitative inquiry, but the present text represents an attempt to reach a level of understanding not easily obtained through conventional methods. The group of authors participated as members of the audience in an avant-garde theatrical performance about grief, created by a group called CoreAct. The artists of CoreAct create their art through systematic research, in this case on grief, and we as researchers decided to study both the development of the play and its performance, and to report our impressions in fragments in a way that hopefully represents the nature of grief as an experienced phenomenon. We use Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s concept of presence to look for understanding beyond meaning in grief and its theatrical enactment.

AB - The authors involved in the creation of this text collaborate on a research project called The Culture of Grief, which explores the current conditions and implications of grief. The authors mostly employ conventional forms of qualitative inquiry, but the present text represents an attempt to reach a level of understanding not easily obtained through conventional methods. The group of authors participated as members of the audience in an avant-garde theatrical performance about grief, created by a group called CoreAct. The artists of CoreAct create their art through systematic research, in this case on grief, and we as researchers decided to study both the development of the play and its performance, and to report our impressions in fragments in a way that hopefully represents the nature of grief as an experienced phenomenon. We use Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s concept of presence to look for understanding beyond meaning in grief and its theatrical enactment.

KW - arts-based inquiry

KW - ethnographies

KW - ethnography

KW - grief

KW - hermeneutics

KW - methodologies

KW - methods of inquiry

KW - presence

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85050542130&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/1077800418789443

DO - 10.1177/1077800418789443

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85050542130

VL - 25

SP - 915

EP - 924

JO - Qualitative Inquiry

JF - Qualitative Inquiry

SN - 1077-8004

IS - 9-10

ER -