“During my stay at the residency I have been working with the paper “Working with chronic pain in maternity. Practical implications of art therapy practice in mother-child relation.”. The main attempt of this research is to investigate intersubjective affective space provoked by chronic pain experience and to question ethical modalities of maternal subjectivity by analysing the work of affect, sensation, and emotion. My research interest focuses on exploring how chronic pain is constructed and how traumatic experiences are born on the level of affect and on the level of emotion. I explore the concept of “extended body” in pain, “absent body” and “present body” in pain addressing art practices of collaging and clay work which help to shift foci of strong chronic pain experiences and to re-establish intersubjective affectivity and sensibility of female subjectivity and of mother-child relation. Also together with my partner David Muñoz González we were developing a project “My Happy Pain” which can be found here https://myhappypain.com”

Irina Poleshchuk

Poleshchuck received a PhD in Social Sciences at the university of Helsinki, 2010, from 2013 to 2017 she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the university of Helsinki. 2005 -2021 She is an Associate Professor at the European Humanities University (Lithuania), She teaches different subject on arts, history of European civilisation, contemporary art and architecture. Recent articles: • In collaboration with Yolanda Blanco, ‘Fenomenologia del dolor a traves el collage”, Ciutadans. Revista de Ciencies Social d’Ándorra, 2020, 17, p. 46 – 52. https://www.iea.ad/publicacions-cres/revista-ciutadans/ciutadans-numero-17; • “Temporalization of mother-child relation: experience of chronic pain”, Topos 2020, P. 158-175, ISSN: 1815-0047. - http://journals.ehu.lt/index.php/topos/issue/view/56 ; • “Formation of Sensibility in Mother-Child Relation: Temporal Dephasing and Traumatic Displacement”, Journal of Clinical Philosophy 19, Osaka 2018, p.64-78, ISSN: 1349-9904. http://www.let.osaka-u.ac.jp/clph/pdf/vol19.pdf

Joya: AiR / Irina Poleshchuk / BLR (FIN)