RETHINKING MOURNING AND DEATH IN THE CONTEXT OF COVID-19: IMPACTS OF MINIMALIST MUSIC ON THE PRACTICE OF “QI GONG – LIU ZI JUE”

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.929352303071

• Palavras-chave: Mourning; Minimalist Music; Qi Gong; Narrative Research.

• Keywords: Mourning; Minimalist Music; Qi Gong; Narrative Research.

• Abstract:

  The scope of this article is to analyze the consonance between minimalist music and Qi Gong – Liu Zi Jue, focusing on the use of these tools to overcome grief, an individual and social phenomenon of great suffering, intensified during the Covid-19 pandemic. This work is based on a master's research developed within the Graduate Program in Contemporary Culture Studies (UFMT) entitled "Experiences of Mourning in Elderly Women in the Context of COVID-19: Artistic-Therapeutic Workshops as Facilitators in the Construction of Narratives", by Gisela de Oliveira Gusmão under the guidance of Dr. Rita de Cássia Domingues dos Santos, which consisted of an exploratory and descriptive study, with qualitative features. The methodology is based on the Narrative Research of Clandinin and Connelly (2015). We concluded, in that study, that the sensations originated from the symbolic universe derive from personal experiences, considering that each individual has a life story, and the experience of each one with the symbols would be both distinct and universal. It is inferred that the use of minimalist music and Qi Gong – Liu Zi Jue, in Therapeutic Art Workshops with women over 60 years of age, could help to facilitate overcoming grief, and that this interdisciplinary practice, in the fields of contemporary poetics and of psychology, tends to favor the biopsychosocial reorganization culminating in a type of updating of perception, allowing the revision of crystallized concepts.