1st Edition

Messy Connections Creating Atmospheres of Addiction Recovery Through Performance Practice

By Cathy Sloan Copyright 2024
130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines performance practices that involve people in recovery from addiction, theorising such practices as recovery-engaged. Focusing on examples of practice from a growing movement of UK-based recovery arts practitioners and performers, it highlights a unique approach to performance that infuses an understanding of lived experiences of addiction and recovery with creative practice.... Read more

 

Acknowledgements

 

Introduction: Assembling Atmospheres of Recovery through Artistic Practice

 

Chapter 1: Creating Spaces of Potentiality through Collaborative Theatre-making

 

Chapter 2: Facilitating Recovery-engaged Performance Atmospheres

 

Chapter 3: Objects of Addiction and Recovery in Artistic Practice

 

Chapter 4: Place in Recovery-engaged Performances

 

Chapter 5: Sustaining Recovery Connections through Creative Kinship

 

Coda: Addiction Recovery Arts Network

 

Index

Biography

Cathy Sloan is a Senior Lecturer in Applied and Socially Conscious Theatre at the University of West London. She is co-founder of the Addiction-Recovery Arts network and Performing Recovery magazine. Her artistic practice specialises in a recovery-engaged ethos of collaborative theatre-making, specifically with addressing lived experiences addiction and associated wellbeing issues.