This article reflects on a funded participatory artmaking project that engaged displaced people whose traumatic experiences prior to exile in the UK necessitated referral for psychological support. Reflections are informed by action research method involving a cyclical reflexive feedback loop, augmented by intra-action and deterritorialisation. Within this context, the Deleuzoguattarian framework is used to add insights into artmaking as a deterritorialising vector of destabilization to identify beneficial shifts in participants’ narratives of self in transition between the original homeland and the new environment. Artworks understood through the clients’ voices over the course of ten weeks, suggest transition from a repetition of original trauma to artworks focused on present lives, and more positive agency. The article explores how witnessing and being witnessed, in the context of emerging intra-actions and transitions, integrate the authors within those processes, authors and clients becoming part of each other’s new self-narratives.

本文反映了一个资助的参与性艺术创作项目，该项目吸引了流离失所者，这些流离失所者在流亡英国之前需要经历心理创伤，因此需要转介他们。反思是通过涉及周期性反思反馈回路的行动研究方法来进行的，并通过行动中和域外化来增强。在这种情况下，地域保护主义框架被用来增加对艺术创作的见识，将其作为破坏稳定的去污化载体，以识别参与者在原始家园和新环境之间过渡的自我叙事的有益变化。在十个星期的过程中，通过客户的声音理解了艺术品，这表明从重复的原始创伤过渡到专注于当下生活以及更具积极性的艺术品。