Creation is a state of mind.
Spirit as in who appears, who haunts, who takes on several faces, who does not announce himself, who holds the gaze, who is tenacious and without pity, as in ghost.
To write about creation, I could not think of anything better than to find the state that allows one to create. To provoke it, by gathering the conditions that one considers likely to bring about creation: For one, drinking too much coffee or mint tea, soaking up alcohol, or sleeping less and less as the deadline approaches, getting down to work at the very moment when you should be getting under the sheets; for another, staring at the void for hours, thinking that it's making concrete progress (but it isn't) or waiting until the last minute before committing yourself (like I'm doing now, in fact I'm late and I'm taking it on).
Create in discipline or in disobedience.
Create in expectation or in agitation.
Create in confidence or in fear.
Create in confusion or in power.
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- Extract from the text Moitié Moitié by Mylène Bouchard
CREATE is a cross-residency program between Centre SAGAMIE and five artist-run centres located in different regions of Quebec, the Maritimes and Ontario. This program involves a period of research/creation residency in each of the partner centres.
