{"id":5407,"date":"2017-12-04T12:36:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T17:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catherinerondeau.com\/residence-artistique-glagow-cca\/"},"modified":"2023-02-25T16:56:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T21:56:29","slug":"residence-artistique-glagow-cca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catherinerondeau.com\/en\/residence-artistique-glagow-cca\/","title":{"rendered":"Project chosen for an artistic residency in Glasgow, Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah! The artistic-residency project I sent to Glasgow\u2019s prestigious Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) has been selected! In collaboration with the CALQ, this exchange program between Qu\u00e9bec and Scotland allows one artist from here to go there, and vice versa.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5394\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5394\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Centre-for-Contemporary-Arts-Glasgow-on-Sauchiehall-St-photo-CCA.jpg\" alt=\"Building night time street corner\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 The Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So I will be leaving for Scotland in the spring for three months of intense artistic revitalization and exploration.<\/p>\n<h2>The Seal-Woman<\/h2>\n<p>I plan on using my precious time at the CCA to explore the archetypical meaning that lays at the heart of the \u201cThe Seal-Woman\u201d, a Scottish\u00a0folktale. Though the story exists in several versions, the plot always revolves around the quest of a selkie to find her seal-skin after having it stolen by a man. Selkies are mythological creatures found in Scottish folklore said to live as seals n the sea but shed their skin to become human on land.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5402\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5402\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/selkie_by_kaebobee.jpg\" alt=\"Painting of a seal woman in the sea\" width=\"618\" height=\"477\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Kaebobee<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Psychoanalytical interpretations of the tale suggest a metaphor between the seal-skin and a woman\u2019s powerful inner self, a natural creative state often lost in the subconscious under years and layers of socialisation. The prospect of working and feeling myself \u00ab\u00a0worked-on\u00a0\u00bb by this tale on the very soil that created it gives symbolic grounding to the project, thus enhancing the almost initiatory aspect of the process\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah! The artistic-residency project I sent to Glasgow\u2019s prestigious Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) has been selected! In collaboration with the CALQ, this exchange program between Qu\u00e9bec and Scotland allows one artist from here to go there, and vice versa. &nbsp; So I will be leaving for Scotland in the spring for three months of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catherinerondeau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catherinerondeau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catherinerondeau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catherinerondeau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catherinerondeau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catherinerondeau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catherinerondeau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catherinerondeau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catherinerondeau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catherinerondeau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}