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I am an author, educator, artist, designer, and consultant for well-being in arts and culture.
I write about contemporary artistic practices, multi-sensory aesthetic experiences, participation in the museum, personal and organisational development, and the pursuit of happiness in everyday life in my creative non-fiction vignettes “the ones”.
At the end of the day, I am most interested in exploring change processes, along with my passions for birds, hikes, and travel.
Currently I am working on a Swiss National Fund–funded research project with the working title The Smell of Switzerland. My research starts with historian Jonathan Reinartz’s thesis that the loved ones smell well and the unknown reek (Reinartz, 2013). On that note, I aim to identify current Swiss smell-based signifiers for processes of othering and inclusion in contemporary social relationships, political structures, or identity politics within a complex Swiss-ness, which navigates multilingualism and multiculturalism, evolving concepts of immigration, a distinct geography, and urban–rural disparity. To do so, I focus also on current artistic practices that include smell as a way to convey comments on belonging and othering.
Kargin, Fatma; King, Dorothée; Savic, Selena: Teaching Artistic Strategies: Playing with Materiality, Aesthetics, and Ambiguity, transcript, 2024.
Artistic strategies have a great transformative potential to improve research, teaching, and artistic expression. The contributors to this volume show how to unleash this potential by presenting a variety of epistemological experiments at the intersection of artistic research, pedagogy, and innovative practices in art and design education.
In theory, making decisions sounds empowering. In practice? Not so easy. You know that feeling when you’re faced with a big decision. Excitement rises — and then sooner or later, most often comes the Yes, but…. We start to feel doubt, hesitation, and inner resistance. Our mind starts to whisper: Are you sure? Isn’t that too risky? Maybe you should wait a bit longer? Shouldn’t someone else, someone more qualified, do this instead of me?
Published, Nov 2024 as a story by the Wellcome collection:
https://wellcomecollection.org/stories/the-stuck-tampon
Words by Dorothée King artwork by Tracy Satchwill average reading time 7 minutes 20 November 2024
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