Arts Practice: Chaos, Order, and Disequilibrium

This paper explores notions of chance and chaos in arts practice, aligning the author’s artistic practice with the Deleuzian concept of rendering ‘unseen forces visible’. The visual artist, through studio process, can reveal unseen forces similar to those that exist in the biological world. This res...

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Main Author: Green, Miik
Format: Journal Article
Published: Common Ground 2014
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description This paper explores notions of chance and chaos in arts practice, aligning the author’s artistic practice with the Deleuzian concept of rendering ‘unseen forces visible’. The visual artist, through studio process, can reveal unseen forces similar to those that exist in the biological world. This research references the fields of art and science, comparing the art studio to that of the science laboratory, where an artist approaches materials as an industrial chemist might, combining matter in disequilibrium. Forms representative of diatoms, pollen and radiolaria manifest in this process, appearing as encapsulated experiments. By capturing, suspending, or pausing these material interactions, one can visualise these structures. The paintings referenced here seek to unconceal through an active disequilibrium, where pigments separate, resin seals and tension reveals. The light that is refracted and reflected through and by this metamorphosis changes the nature of the materials: inks and resin turn from liquid to solid, darkness to light.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-214792017-01-30T12:25:27Z Arts Practice: Chaos, Order, and Disequilibrium Green, Miik Arts Practice Disequilibrium Resistance Chaos Order This paper explores notions of chance and chaos in arts practice, aligning the author’s artistic practice with the Deleuzian concept of rendering ‘unseen forces visible’. The visual artist, through studio process, can reveal unseen forces similar to those that exist in the biological world. This research references the fields of art and science, comparing the art studio to that of the science laboratory, where an artist approaches materials as an industrial chemist might, combining matter in disequilibrium. Forms representative of diatoms, pollen and radiolaria manifest in this process, appearing as encapsulated experiments. By capturing, suspending, or pausing these material interactions, one can visualise these structures. The paintings referenced here seek to unconceal through an active disequilibrium, where pigments separate, resin seals and tension reveals. The light that is refracted and reflected through and by this metamorphosis changes the nature of the materials: inks and resin turn from liquid to solid, darkness to light. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21479 http://ijaspc.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.233/prod.64 Common Ground fulltext
spellingShingle Arts Practice
Disequilibrium
Resistance
Chaos
Order
Green, Miik
Arts Practice: Chaos, Order, and Disequilibrium
title Arts Practice: Chaos, Order, and Disequilibrium
title_full Arts Practice: Chaos, Order, and Disequilibrium
title_fullStr Arts Practice: Chaos, Order, and Disequilibrium
title_full_unstemmed Arts Practice: Chaos, Order, and Disequilibrium
title_short Arts Practice: Chaos, Order, and Disequilibrium
title_sort arts practice: chaos, order, and disequilibrium
topic Arts Practice
Disequilibrium
Resistance
Chaos
Order
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/21479