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• W1495188278 abstract "For many centuries and in many cultures, jesters recited tales of heroic exploits, but they did more than simply recount past events-they amused, cajoled, and spun tales that transported listeners to the edge of mysterious, unmapped territories. Through the transformative power of play and the imagination, they reworked what was already understood and created from it new realities that transcended the established order. The author maintains that such imaginative play is vital to creativity in any medium and is fundamental for optimal human development. She explores possibilities for cultivating creativity through the playful, paradoxical stance of the jester-a serendipitous and purposeful, strange and familiar, disruptive and productive figure. Her discussion, grounded in a visual-arts practice that leverages uncertainty and randomness, considers the role of play in light of its wider implications for knowledge and creativity. Keywords: creativity; imagination; jester; play and creativityPrologueI began this inquiry because I was curious about the jester as a ludic character- as a jokester and as an entertaining narrator of adventure tales. The word jester, after all, comes from the Old French geste-a narrative of exploits, action, and romance-and from the Latin for deeds and achievements, gesta. What I discovered is that the jester not only portrays an icon of play and subversive humor but of powerful, creative imagination as well. More than mere clowns or storytellers, these complex, multidimensional figures were profoundly clever, provocative, and-according to King Lear-oftprophetic game changers. The jester persona has played an essential role as an agent for change throughout history and across cultures. Just as his acerbic humor spurred political change within the court, the jester's masterful sense of play is a central force of creative change in the larger world. His antics and waggish retorts are more than amusing; they can be revelatory. By drawing listeners into an uncanny traveler's space that no longer involves departure and does not yet include arrival, putting everything at a distance from recognizable places, jesters disoriented, dislocated, and transported kings and commoners alike to the boundaries of the familiar. Where these neatly marked borders dissolve, we discover the roots of our own creativity in the serendipities of disorder, uncertainty, and accident. For this exploration of the creative process, let us imagine a similar paradoxical space with the jester serving as metaphorical guide to things both familiar and strange, things both controlled and playfully improvisatory, things both fixed and uncertain, and things both destructive and brimming with possibilities for constructing new realities.Political Jester: The Subversive OutsiderThe jester and other lords of mischief are ubiquitous in legends and lore around the world. The personification of a provocateur-Latin provocare, meaning challenge, from pro (forth) plus vocare (to call)-they stand at or wholly outside the margin of any organized system while challenging those within to see things differently. In European traditions, their earliest antecedents were probably the comic actors of ancient Rome. Frequently in trouble with imperial magistrates or church officials who disapproved of their outspokenness, many jesters took to the road in search of greater freedom. Successive waves of such wandering comics may have laid the foundations for medieval jesterdom.1By the Middle Ages, the jester had become a familiar figure as a comic entertainer whose madness or imbecility, real or feigned, made him a source of amusement. Much as depicted even today, the jester wore multicolored garb and a quirky three-pointed hood representing the ears and tail of an ass. This droll outward appearance, however, belied a careful and penetrating wit. Where freedom of speech was not considered a universal right, the seemingly nonsensical utterances of a fool might easily be dismissed, enabling jesters to speak frankly on controversial issues in a way those with greater status-and more to lose-did not dare. …" @default.
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• W1495188278 title "A Jester's Guide to Creative See[k]ing across Disciplines." @default.
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