[-empyre-] Process as paradigm / systems theory

[Johannes Birringer]

hallo all:


just wanted to thank Yuanyuan for the considered reply,
and the commentary on "growth pattern" (see at bottom)

To what extent might one participate in your organism system as a performer?

E.g, we are looking for a particular kind of autumn leaves for an envionmental dance work
currently in rehearsal here with our ensemble, we saw these leaves in Japan, and smuggled some back across the
border but they were hard to keep in their shape, they have become very brittle, and
we like to wear them in the dance, and make them sound.   

have you worked with plants in relation to performance
or an inter actional installation? have you worked with musicians
who like the electrical energy of plants and transfer it into sonic behavior?
do you invite tending or care? 
do you have  representations of the cultuered leaves to look at? what is their scent? 


Susanne's response:

>>> JB's question brings up another question that I just want to mention: about the documentation and archiving of such ephemeral, performative and therefore often experience-based works ....>


I will need to look more at actual performative work or relatively-speaking performance work in your exhibit and how you are (re)situating or renaming performance (and what you refer to as the production of presence),  i have not gotten that far yet in the catalog, but soon.  You are not situating the "performative" in Yuanyuan's plant organism & its adaptive response to environment? 

are you calling audience adaptations performative, and why? 

Is there such a reception phenomenon as "audience" (as in" auditorium" or spectatorship or observership or other forms of engagement in response to an offering) in regard to the "growth pattern" project, why would there be?  or if such work processes constitute a hypothetical "observership"  -- long durational, as i asked in an earlier post? --  how do they replace all older conventions of aesthetic or kinaesthetic reception?   Hmm, i am thinking nowe of Ken Goldberg's Telegarden, and the issue of a certain duty of care that I have come across in performance experiments by artists who went into extreme habitats or exposed themselves to such.

What degree of performance and "presence" is indeed demanded, I hear Susanne asking, in such "living" systems or in relation to such constellations as "data clouds" , networkds, communication grids?  
what responsive, committed, surprising,shy, perplexed, transgressive  or awkward  "behaviors" can you report, since you do address behaviors in your catalog, yes?  It is also presumed, in your catalogue, that biological systems and biotechnological procedures are articulate  as forms or "means of expression"? 

can we hear more about these forms of expression and how they relate back to your or others's conception of the artistic?
 
and thanks here also to Ursula Damm's wonderful longer text about processual situations and methodologies in a reclusive (non public-performative) transdiscipline environment,  at the Bauhaus University,   can you say more about what you meant by these microprocesses (viz:  life sciences, programming organisms,  or artefacts, or art works),   and the trial and error, in regard to processual art, Ursula?
And are not there already traditions of code? 


regards
Johannes Birringer
dap / dans sans joux
www.danssansjoux.org






>>I have received Johannes Birringer's letter. In the letter said: "Along with the now standard embrace of the life sciences and biology. Okay, so we are talking about programming organisms? processual organisms? can you give some examples of how participatory this is and where and when and for whom?"
 
.. ...

I like the "growth pattern", which is a project in the book named "process as paradigm", page 66-69."A living natural system takes on the form of a manufactured pattern. leaves are intricately cut into a bilaterally symmetrical pattern and suspended in tiling square. Plant cells are totipotent. This means that, depending on the ratio of auxins to cytokinins, the cells have the capacity to differentiate into any organ in the plant. Here the cultured leaves are provided with the hormones that cause the cells to produce new leaf tissue. The newly growing leaves are extending the form of the traditionally inspired botanical motif." 

I believe that every living organisms have an ability to respond to their environment,  have an ability to reproduce and to adapt. All of the have processual grow and develop. I guess it can be seen as a celebration of Nature and the healing powers extended by an intact natural environment.

And about art in the system, everything in the world in natural systems, social systems and social signs of the art world itself. Many arts are used in systems science. As above, the “growth pattern", I think is about the art of natural systems. The little leaves can be seen as 

patience, peaceful, and harmony. It maybe  look as if Nature herself had spontaneously created it - like a marvellous accident of Nature.
Cheers Yuanyuan
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