Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020

Silence Awareness Existence program / JANUARY 2023
Anne K. Yoder
USA
www.annekyoder.com
About
Anne K. Yoder is the author of the novel, The Enhancers,
published in fall 2022 and highlighted as a must-read book
by Wired and Vulture, among other publications. Her fiction,
essays, and criticism have appeared in Fence, BOMB, Tin
House, NY Tyrant, and MAKE, and has been recognized in
Best American Nonrequired Reading. She is the author of
two poetry chapbooks and is a member of the Chicagobased
publishing and arts collective, Meekling Press.
At Arteles, she will be working both on a novel manuscript,
that, like many of her fictions, is preoccupied with inherent
contradictions, within a self, a couple, a community,
especially the ways that people will fabricate narratives and
belief systems in order to maintain perspective or escape the
past.
Time Without Words
I arrived at Arteles a few months after the publication of
my first novel, with the intent of completing a draft of a
different novel manuscript that I hadn't touched in over a
year. I went over the thousands of words I'd already written
but realized I needed a shift to re-enter the narrative. I had
also come to Arteles with the intent of experiencing the
silence and darkness of Finnish winter, to immerse myself
in the surrounding landscape in hues of white and gray, and
to meditate twice daily. The silence and the forest provided
a landscape for reflection, reading, and note-taking. It
seemed that in my silence the landscape was speaking to
me. I experienced such fullness in my four weeks, but my
project for the duration evolved while I was there. The zine I
made, Time Without Words, with is a fiction of sorts, based
on my experiences at Arteles, and tells this story alongside
photographs I took.