Since 1998, Diane Morin has been a multimedia artist, experimenting with a wide range of practices linked to making and (not) knowing. She creates site-specific installations in which micro-events—physical, sonic, visual and arithmetic—take place. Numerous artist and research residencies have contributed to the development of her practice, and her work has been exhibited publicly in Canada, Austria, France, Finland, Norway and Sweden. She received the Contemporary Art Prize from the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ), awarded in collaboration with the RBC Foundation (2014), the Victor-Martyn-Lynch-Staunton Award from the Canada Council for the Arts, and a special mention at the VIDA 15.0 Arts and Artificial Life International Awards (2014).
My artistic experiments are conducive to revivals, reenactments, re-constructions and re-encounters of apparatuses, objects and materials linked to different temporalities of living things, the sciences and the media. Involving recent and obsolete technologies, my installations rely on minimalistic means whilst allowing multiple narratives to emerge.
My current research has led me to explore how materials are not only animated, but also animate us, across different spatial and temporal scales. The residency at Centre SAGAMIE, through the printing on paper of images of skulls, hats, testate amoeba shells and other folded-forms, membrane-forms, and vessel-forms, will allow for experimentation with encounters and entanglements between organisms and artefacts; fabricated things and self-generated things; inside and outside.
