Leaning Out of Windows: Emergence
January 8 – 26, 2020
Emily Carr University of Art + Design, M. O’Brian Exhibition Commons + RBC Media Gallery
Leaning Out of Windows: Emergence was the second of three exhibitions of the research. The process design for this phase of the research involved the formation of collaborative teams as a way to activate co-thought and associative thinking for comprehending complex phenomena – in this case – Emergence.
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About the project:
In some ways, the communication process with this team was about emergence, constantly emerging without being fully concretized. In terms of physics, a particle’s decay is the immediate process of an unstable particle morphing into multiple particles. It relates to the printmaking process, where one matrix (substrate) when pressurized, can form multiple images (the ghost, the matrix, the print). In Bourget’s art practice, decay points to creation and its inherent invisible consequences (or side effects): dust on the floor, leftover crumpled paper, charcoaled fingers leaving marks on light switches…
“Decay is another word to symbolize emergence; weirdly, decay and emergence are both synonymous and antonymous …[T]he metaphorical content of the word applies to all my processes, from making charcoal to pushing charcoal onto paper, from extracting an image from an already existing drawing to cutting up drawing to form a new image.”