Robin Decker

My creative work grounds in a profound connection to life, the organic space and the historicity of western art and civilization. As a philosophy teacher and researcher, I have explored the relationship to Nature that the western civilization has established since it's inception in classical art and philosophy, and try to think a new fundamental ontology, being able to re-open history after the postmodern.

This research opened up my interest to the dialectic structure of art history, but also to the dynamics of narrative structures as present in myth, archetypal storytelling and film. I today propose seminars both for Art/ Architecture or film schools, trying to articulate narratives after post-modernity.

Art/ Architectural and Arch' narratives that, though integrating the modern, take us back to pre- classical Ontologies of Nature and storytelling (cf. for example the Stonehenge/ Woodhenge ontology of Matter - life/ The Biblical narratives taken from a humanistic/ mythical perspective).

Art/ Aesthetics, beyond a simple Window, opened on the world (Cf. Alberti), become a Doorway, restoring and revitalizing our shared symbolic experiences. Art/ Architecture/Narrative as a symbolic form, reawakening a common "Lebenswelt" ...

1997-2005:

Master of Philosophy (Lyon3)
Master of psychology (Paris Orsay)
Magister in social sciences (Grenoble 2)

Period of work, travel and study in Europe (Hungary, Spain, Italy) and South America ( Mexico).


2006

3 years of academics and research in the Polynesian islands (Hawaii, Tahiti, Tuamotu), investigating traditional creation stories (ex: Kumulipo), and their relation with traditional healing (i.e hoo'pono'pono), performing arts (Intensive practice of Polynesian dance in Tahiti).

Photographical work with emphasis on the Natural space, traditional Dance, Beauty and Light.


2009

3 years of academics and research in the Japan, investigating autochtone philosophy and psychology in the traditional creation stories (i.e. Kojiki) and their symbolic embodiment in the practice of traditional performing arts (intensive practice of Aïkido at the "Kumano Juku Dojo", Shingu).

Photographical work embodying my research in relation with Light and the Natural Space


2013-2016

Master of Psychology investigating the importance of the lived and embodied relationship in the healing process.

Beginning of sculptural experimentation at the Valence atelier Libre, associating Organic material (ma...