[-empyre-] Process as paradigm

[isabelle jenniches]

Hi all,

This might be a good moment to share some thoughts I took with me after 
installing my work in Spain. It's not very often that I really enjoy an 
exhibition, but many of the works in "Process as paradigm" spoke to me 
and I felt I had a lot in common with the artists that I came to know 
(if only very briefly). Back home in the Santa Cruz mountains in 
California, I am trying to discern this connective tissue:

* From a maker's point of view, I noticed in many works a certain 
degree of letting go, a (partial) surrender of  authorship to another 
entity – computer program, camera eye, biological process or otherwise. 
(Interestingly, while most people today are less and less in contact 
with the natural world, many artists in the exhibition are 
appropriating biology or physics or software programs that mimic these. 
To me, these works of art often have meditative qualities and are 
inherently beautiful. Maybe because we as physical, biological beings 
understand these processes deeper than anything else?)

** Setting the parameter then is of great importance to determine the 
kind of influence by this outside entity. Sometimes this happens 
beforehand, or as in my work, the output is being filtered afterwards.

*** Many of the artists in "Process as paradigm" strike me as people 
who like to find things rather than to make them entirely from scratch. 
We share a delight in the messiness of life and its surprises keep us 
going.


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