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Art-Therapy : Strategy of Detour as a tool of Resistance | Nicole Depagniat | TEDxLimoges


[Applause]

[Music]

jellyfish the monster in all its

terrifying splendor ancient beauty

sublime transformed by revenge into

brilliant hair horror vision of

some and especially a look that

petrifies the one who cross it but have

I really need to introduce it to you

everyone here does not have it already

encountered in one form or another

because in fact jellyfish is everywhere in us

around us she is the fear the

suffering the ill-being the sickness the

ours the world’s resist him

it’s really fighting a fight

But this fight is not on equal terms

because if we look at jellyfish in front

we are petrified like all those

who sought to attack him live

because his power and all-powerful

so it’s also we want to attack

jellyfish

what to do all that hurts and well

bigger and stronger than us

we weaken and may even have us

carried out until the night the alienation

we often do not have the strength

to act and let us act by all

those who seek to control us from

outside as by those who already

took power inside

new and the worst is when we do not

we sell even more then costs

is the fight lost?

advanced

Well, it’s not counting on

the existence of a pretty cunning

extraordinary detour strategy

the example is given to us by drilling

for the Greek hero gave himself for

mission to kill the gorgon jellyfish is

to bring back his head

how does it break through know

very well he can not fight

only the monster will he do

call for external help in

no one from athena athena the very

cunning goddess of war and

justice athena will be present in combat

but she participates only indirectly

his help will come from a very tool

precious

one of his main attributes his

silver shield

this shield is so polite it

can serve as a mirror so athena goes

place this silver shield between pierced

jellyfish during the fight

so that on the one hand breakthrough

can fight without needing to

look at his enemy in the face and that

on the other hand jellyfish petrifies

herself discovering her own

reflection in the shield is thus pierced

can behead it without danger

silver shield will have constituted

the strategic element of

diversion allowing to pierce

come out winner to sum up us

so we have four actors in the presence

during this fight there is a lost hero

it’s a monster enemies the gorgon

jellyfish a friend athena and

fourthly the main character

the silver shield

detour strategy symbol

so why this myth of Perseus

can he serve us today it’s

that it is in every way transposable to

field of art therapy these are

exactly the same actors in

presence

ago to a hero’s hero is you

here it is every one of you

in all singularity it is

secondly the monster is neither the

monster enemies well it’s the world

wicked that’s what scares this

that hurts what makes it sick that this

come from outside or from

interior

but it’s also third

presence in nice is your companion

of travel

the art therapist and fourthly well

the druze tool that famous shield

of money who is here personified by this

that we will call the process of

artistic creation

so I will offer you a small

experience and ask you to close

eyes closed all eyes if you

please for a few moments and

let yourself be guided by my voice I will

me too closed my eyes

so close all eyes and I will

invite to imagine the place of action

you are in an artist’s studio

try to soak up

the atmosphere of this place

by observing everything in them

objects tools skins tubes

the brushes the colors the coulures

on the walls the tasks on the

rags also try to you

impregnate with a particular smell in

an artist’s studio sticks the oil of

linen turpentine dust

also imagine

another person is present with

you in this workshop this is your

travel companion

the art therapist she wall mounted

a large sheet of white paper is

placed on a table a plate filled

of black paint and she hands you a

brush a very nice big brush and

bushy and invites you to grab it

to put on the sheet of paper the

traces like that comes

so you get moving you

you grab the brush and you go

you place in front of the sheet

before you start you are invited

to put your free hand on the surface

of the leaf to feel the water grain

also try to soak up the

whiteness of the paper of its brilliance as

if you wanted to go inside

and then you’re just going to tend the

arm that holds the brush and press the

brush on the sheet and already a

first form appears or all at

less a first trace

and then you continue to widen

a little bit your gesture by stretching towards the

right to the left up towards

there as down to like that

just

the important thing while you trace and

to try to observe how your track

follow the movement of your arm try

also to feel how your brush

slip on the sheet and feel the

softness and smoothness of the paint

which spread gradually on your

on your track on your sheet and

that’s how you already see

appear a first form on the

leaf and then you go back to

your plate to recharge your

brush with paint etc the moment

very important in the process for

to patrol for everything there is in the

material

to soak in and then during

that you do that you reload

your brush simply try

to observe fluidity flexibility

the lubricity the the viscosity also of

your material observed the depth of the

black its velvety and then when the

brush and sufficiently recharged you

will you place yourself again in front of the

leaf and continue like that comes

the traces to start

especially do not think about letting

you simply guide by your hand and

by your arm relieved all off

you of any particular intent and

that’s how little by little you

will see children appear

details of sign symbols

maybe strange and then keep

still eyes closed one has not

totally finished and then you go

rest your brush and move you back

slightly to observe with a

small distance your production

observed

look at how space is organized

from your sheet observe your lines the

straight curves

how they do not cross meet by

places and how does it deviate to

others watch your features full ones

who are emptying also observed your

thickness and brush strokes more

hungry observed every detail because it’s

there that everything is played in the observation

the most minute of the details and its

details will prove invaluable by

following

and then quietly I’m going to

invite to come back

here and now all together in

our beautiful room of the great theater of

limoges and reopen the eyes for the

following the art presentation

therapy there are four 4 elements that

are going to constitute this so that this movement

unpublished resistance is

firstly the first trace that

you asked earlier that

who came spontaneously who has

sprung out of your hands it’s secondly

what we did right away

after that is his careful observation

third consecutively

it’s the inner feeling associated

at this sighting felt himself must

to be in the deepest of oneself at most

near you and it’s after

fourthly the following trace the shot

brush the brushstroke follow the

following production the next work

and all that will fit into a

process so this is so on

so on and on and on and that’s

as well as you enter a movement

unpublished that of the creative process

this process is a mediation between

you and the world

he is the shield of athena

it’s him the detour strategy because

as you realized

during the little experiment

there is no direct message we do not

look no jellyfish in the face there is no

of intentional expressions to say

for example I am sad where I paint

my cancer well no lahrissi

not interested in the substance but in the

wildlife

exclusively in the form and during

this process the shapes you will have

created will take more and more of

complexity will become more technical

will also become more present for

you is more important

and its forms well they take

root in recognition by you

even some of these little details

signs of these little symbols of which I

you spoke just now

and these little signs these symbols these

details are essential because it’s them

that allow you to put yourself in

contact with your repository images

the most deeply rooted ones

that allow you to say they allow

to say oneself in all singularity and to

end of a time that may be my most

or less well these forms that you

have created will end up having their

own existence

by standing out from yourself in

vault go past this is the situation that

knows each artist

when he must recognize that he has

exceeded by his work he was

spent something mysterious

that he has not mastered and that’s what

only then will you have

even you realize

create your own resistance tools

because you see art in art

recreate the world in its image to zero

other similar

and that’s all the power of

work of art therapy that contains

inherently the possibility of

change the world

it’s like we mean I’m acting

on the world

by letting me act by the form

symbolic that sprung from my hands

resist

would thus pass through the invisible of the

metaphor contained in the form

artistic is supposed to be in this invisible

what could its power be

which allows everyone no matter who it is

good or bad to recreate in

becoming his own artists come from

the kind to oneself is to put oneself in

active and unlimited resistance to

all those who break us alienates us

we chained we searched for us

control that also returns

all of us questioning

fundamental that is its place of

creators in society because create

it’s really resist thank you

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