In the Minds of Artists? Study of the Situated Artistic Creation Experience
Résumé
In this chapter, the artistic creation experience is understood as “psychological work: work involving thinking, mentalization, liaison, representation”, which finally finds its materialization in “a material nourished as much by thinking as by the body”. Beyond autobiographical narratives, research on the experience of artistic creation regularly involves archives, feedback, interviews, questionnaires and observations of artists. Different theoretical models propose to describe the articulation of the creative process. REMIND implements a stimulated revival phenomenon that allows access to the articulation of the creative process. It is a method that stimulates a person's memory in order to discover what happened with precision, finesse and depth at moments when that individual constructed meaning in and with their environment. Using this method, the authors have identified several sequences that divide the activity of each artist and provide them with information about stimuli, what can happen and what they may think during a creative experience.