Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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Back to Basics program / JULY <strong>2023</strong><br />
Danielle Robitaille<br />
Canada<br />
About<br />
After having worked as an architect during my professional<br />
life and practiced painting in parallel, a few years ago I<br />
undertook a MFA in order to develop a personal artistic<br />
practice. From the beginning of my master's degree, seeking<br />
to understand what motivated me, I decided to problematize<br />
the notion of emotion and to make it the very heart of my<br />
research.<br />
As my main project during the MFA, I have developed a<br />
procedural practice by which I carry out a daily mapping<br />
of my affective state. Each day, I score 64 groups of words<br />
(hesitation, guilt, hope, etc.) and then visually translate the<br />
collected data according to a color combination protocol.<br />
The chromatic richness that I obtain, although it is from a<br />
digital source, allows me to reconnect with the pleasure of<br />
manipulating colors that I felt in painting.<br />
The daily examination of my affective state requires a time<br />
of pause and presence to oneself that I associate with<br />
meditation. In order to deepen this link, I will participate, in<br />
<strong>2023</strong>-2024, in a short graduate program on meditation and<br />
the creative process.<br />
The Finnish list<br />
I used my time at <strong>Arteles</strong> to carry out two projects. The first<br />
one was sharing my daily emotional mapping project with<br />
other artists who wanted to participate and explore that<br />
process for themselves during their stay. I used their data<br />
to make personal portraits of the artists as well as a group<br />
portrait. The exercise gave rise to interesting discussions<br />
on the emotional variations we go through and their<br />
representation using colors.<br />
For the second project, I prepared a list of seven activities<br />
that I should do to improve my emotional state (including<br />
meditation, taking time to do nothing, etc.), but which I<br />
usually resist. My stay at <strong>Arteles</strong> allowed me to immerse<br />
myself in those activities and observe their impact. In a large<br />
frame built using wood taken from pallets stored in the barn, I<br />
recreated a calendar of the first three weeks of the residency,<br />
using an embroidery circle for each day. On each circle, I<br />
attached a strip of paper for each of the seven activities<br />
that I managed to do during that day. As I have transcribed<br />
a sentence from my personal diary on each strip of paper,<br />
the whole work constitutes a diary of my stay at <strong>Arteles</strong>: it<br />
begins with observations, mainly concerning the immediate<br />
environment of the residence, then continues with the moods<br />
aroused by the course of daily life, the company of other<br />
artists, the time available, the preparation of projects, etc.<br />
I acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the<br />
Arts.