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At this point in time, we, the global society, are experiencing a series of processes that
have seemingly got out of our control while, more than even, we are equipped to
observe and monitor them. Ongoing conflicts in various parts of the world, the sudden
meltdown of world economy and the menaces of climate change, to name only the big
headlines, are valid proof that we are deeply involved in social, ecologic and economic
processes which are of such complexity that we have become aware of our limitations to
manage them in their entirety, if this is at all possible. By the same token, a major shift
takes place from an industrial culture based on the concept of the final product to a post-
industrial, networked culture, the latter being built on the concept of global trade,
production systems and service industries.
Given this background, it would only seem natural that innovative contemporary art no
longer holds onto the safe properties of the final object, the ultimate manifestation of a
creative process, but moves to the uncertain territory of unpredictability and successive
live generation of form. Artists increasingly explore the complexity, the temporal
aspect, the interdependence and the self-organisation of processes. They deal with these
matters almost on a scientific level, which makes their artworks become experiments
and test set-ups rather than controllable systems.
The exhibition Process Becomes Paradigm shows that processes are indeed becoming
one of the mayor paradigms and creative strategies in contemporary art. The exhibition
confronts us with art that is in continuous flux and execution, that has a life of its own,
that grows, changes and decays. The artworks investigate the vague terrain between pre-
programming and autonomy, between present development and randomness, thus
delivering surprising insights into the nature of non-teleological processes and a novel
understanding of art — art as a form of prototyping, continuously prototyping the
natural and generating the social. When Process becomes Paradigm presents the work
of 25 artists or artists groups whose creations range from biological, automated to social
processes or who visualise processes in real time.
The seven selected proposals in a international call will be developed by the authors and
collaborators during the workshop prior to the opening of the exhibition Process as
Paradigm, on April 23rd 2010. The projects will become part of the exhibition. This
exhibition, curated by Susanne Jaschko and Lucas Evers, reveals a huge shift from a
culture based on the concept of manifestation and the final product (industrial society)
to a culture of process. The Interactivos? workshop leading up to the exhibition is
devoted to the production of artworks which follow the thesis of the exhibition.
Selected projects: Driven By by André Gonçalves, Everything is under control by
Tommaso Lanza and Cathrine Kramer, FrankenFoodCart by Zackery Denfeld, Scan-it
by María Castellanos and Alberto Valverde, Photographic spatial experiment by Boris
Oicherman, Practice Mapping by Marco Quaggiotto and Wouter Van den Broeck and
Territoris Oblidats by Inês Salpico.
LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial is a space for artistic exchange. It is set
up with the purpose of establishing an effective alliance between art, design, culture,
industry and economic progress and the goal of becoming a space for interaction and
dialogue between art, new technologies and industrial creation. It throws a special
spotlight on production, creation and research into art concepts still being defined.
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