This article generates new understandings of dementia through feminist posthumanist and performative engagements with co-creative artmaking practices during a six-month study in a residential care home in Norway. Dementia emerges within multisensorial entanglements of more-than-human materials in three different artmaking sessions, which first materialized in the form of collective photographs and vignettes and culminated in a final exhibition, Gleaming Moments, in the care home. Drawing on these photographs, vignettes, and the author's engagement as a research artist in the sessions, this analysis examined how dementia was enacted as a spark of inspiration, felted warm seat pads, and a friendly more-than-human touch, that is, a touch of human and nonhuman art materials. These findings suggest new ontologies of dementia within multisensorial artmaking practices, in which dementia functions as a material for co-creative artmaking rather than a disease. These findings disrupt dominant biomedical ontologies of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, as well as humanist person-centered practices in dementia care, which have concretized an individual, rather than relational, focus on dementia. In contrast, this study explores dementia as a phenomenon within the entanglements of human and nonhuman intra-active agencies. By highlighting the significance of these agencies (i.e., sponge holder-painting, wool-felting, choir-singing, chick-making) for different worlds-making with dementia, this study provides an entry point for imagining feminist posthumanist caring. Thus, dementia becomes a matter in life that is not to be managed and defeated to achieve successful aging, but to be interrogated and embraced.

本文在挪威一家疗养院进行了为期六个月的研究，通过女权主义后人类主义和共同创作艺术创作实践的表演性参与，产生了对痴呆症的新理解。痴呆症出现在三个不同的艺术创作过程中，超越人类的材料的多感官纠缠中，首先以集体照片和小插图的形式具体化，并在疗养院的最后一个展览《闪闪发光的时刻》中达到高潮。借鉴这些照片、小插曲以及作者作为研究艺术家在会议中的参与，这项分析研究了痴呆症是如何被表现为灵感的火花、毡制温暖的座垫和友好的、超人的接触的，也就是说，人类和非人类艺术材料的接触。这些发现提出了多感官艺术创作实践中痴呆症的新本体论，其中痴呆症作为共同创作艺术创作的材料而不是疾病。这些发现颠覆了阿尔茨海默病和其他痴呆症的主导生物医学本体论，以及痴呆症护理中以人为本的人文主义实践，这些实践将痴呆症的关注具体化为个人，而不是关系。相比之下，这项研究将痴呆症视为人类和非人类内部活跃机构纠缠中的一种现象。通过强调这些机构（即海绵架绘画、羊毛毡、唱诗班歌唱、小鸡制作）对于痴呆症不同世界构建的重要性，本研究为想象女权主义后人道主义关怀提供了一个切入点。因此，痴呆症成为生活中的一个问题，不能通过管理和战胜来实现成功的老龄化，而是要接受质疑和拥抱。