jo•marginalia
About
Jo Nakayama-Painter works as a guest of currently occupied Lenapehoking. They received their MFA from University of Pennsylvania, where they studied Relational Aesthetics, specializing in trauma integration and creative arts therapy.
Statement:
Creative methodology that reaches into the generative potentials of the unconscious necessarily passes through an entropy of stabilized knowledge. I voyage through the unconscious to discover a visceral language beyond me, and present vocabulary of emergent, self-organizing patterns, found in the precognitive material encounter. My practice focuses on the return from cognitive destabilization: How does creative methodology integrate entropy in sequence with the constructive relational experience of art engagement? How does creative pedagogy function to rewild material encounters? How do these wild encounters catalyze healing dynamics, both within the individual psyche and through the scope of society?