VIDEO INSTALLATION
DE ANIMA
De Anima is a collective made up of Raphaële Carril, Alice Pallot, Alexandre Carril, Jimme Cloo, Alphonse Maîtrepierre, Adrien Gelin and Guillaume Duclos.
Artists, craftsmen and researchers, they have come together with the optimistic desire to participate in a paradigm shift in the relationship between human beings and nature and living organisms with nature and the living world.
This ambition is reflected in their projects, which seek to shift the traditional relationship of domination towards one of creative, harmonious co-dependence.
Driven by a multi-disciplinary artistic dimension, they interact our diverse knowledge of architecture, design, fashion design, scenography, video art, photography and biophysics with contemporary issues, repositioning nature at the centre of our concerns.
The practical methodology of the De Anima workshop is provided by contemporary art,
which serves as its manifesto. Design and architecture are new examples of this and in many other fields, the shift is beginning to take place, attesting to the essentialist realization of art, which is first and foremost a poetic that is, a way of inhabiting the world.
De Anima flourishes on the assumption of an absolute of dynamism, codependence and
interaction.
The concrete workings of the De Anima workshop revolve around four concepts:
the exercise of wild mimesis (collaboration with nature), combined with a new
perspective and a core of actions and creations (creative integration), aimed at
integration), aimed at perpetuating harmony. (Concordance).
Together, these four combinatorial functions contribute to the practical methodology of
De Anima.
Wild mimesis is the expression of the workings of nature, as the impression and movement of life, the reproduction of an internal dynamic. Our aim is not to work “like” nature, but rather with it.
We seek to be part of its movement, to compete with it and to make it compete.
compete. To do this, we recognize our animality as beings composed of and activating
and activators of biological, cosmic and spiritual relationships. It is the full
of our animality that gives us the necessary openness and awareness.
It is by approaching a knowledge of otherness that we will attempt to grasp
and collaborative potential. We're looking for the terms of a common language
respectful of each other's differences and interests. Respect for otherness
means that we don't want the other, the creative project, to be what we want it to be,
but that they become what they are. We'll be working out a “hybrid code” in advance, with the aim of a diplomatic approach to cohabitation. To realize a project, De Anima will work to put itself in a position to use nature as effectively and respectfully with nature, in order to engage as much as possible with (and as little as possible against) the energies in place. (and as little as possible against).
We will not deny otherness, but integrate it into all our activities. Without ever
stop asking ourselves how to “act with”, the De Anima workshop will place itself in a
collaborative logic. We will strive not to think outside the world, not to define a formal
not to define a formal result that seeks to impose itself by force on reality.
De Anima moves from a logic of form to a logic of purpose. What we're interested in
is not to constrain the creative project to a certain mechanics or the dimensions of a certain object, but rather to achieve a goal through and within creation. The shape
may be different from the one obtained at the outset: its concern lies elsewhere. From
Anima is finalist rather than formalist. It's the purpose that interests us, not the formal
result (which will emerge in the course of the diplomatic relationship with the creation
actors and directors of the creation).
De Anima will take into account the necessary evolution of any creation. Nothing is set in stone. It's not a question of to stop something once and for all, but rather to ensure that an objective. This inevitably means that structures will evolve, in concert with the evolution of the creative partner(s) with whom the “wild” creation will be as with the environment in which it will take place. We move from an order of resistance to an order of adaptation. We want to move from a logic of domination to one of strategy.
“The strategy for apprehending the lines of creative projects and collaborations will involve by discerning, both detecting and clearing, the very situation in which De
Anima will find itself engaged in, and not as it would ideally be reconfigured in its mind, the favorable factors according to which realization can continuously gain in propensity.
Prior to each creative process, we carry out observation work aimed at assessing the
the “balance of power” and “favorable factors”. Once identified, “the potential” existing between the context and the subject, the aim is to accompany the evolution of this potential, to manage “adaptively its conduct”. De Anima will study the “continuous relationship of interactions” by reciprocally constituting itself with nature itself. The De Anima workshop aims to be a co-author who acts with and in with and in relation to the present “field of resources”, and strives to follow and make the most of opportunities”.
Taking stock of the forces at work, inventorying available resources and continuously
adapt will be the founding strategy that De Anima will develop with each project.
From an operational point of view, drawing up an action plan will give way to a “diagram of the factors and vectors at play”, in a logic of adaptation and co-construction according to a process, rather than an initially fixed idea.
We want to move from a “modeling logic” to an “unfolding logic”.