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SYNOPSIS
invent Art. dicover Art.
Two Models of a process.
Looking for something unknown, I want to present two models, possibilities qualifying to enter the creative process: 1. Invention; 2. Discovery.
Both methods are strategies, important for art and science. Invention produces new constellations of already known elements. Discovery, traditional a movement of the 19th century, produces something visible that seemed previously invisible.
Invention could be the tactic of an artist, discovery the one of a curator or an adventurer. The invisible and the unknown, however, constitutive for both the invention and the discovery, interact. The artist and the curator are searchers, both are working for the fiction of something unknown and invisible. That seems to be the condition for a visible and well-known art. The interaction of seeing and knowledge produces the possibilities of invention and discovery:
If I search for X, the unknown, I'll follow this interactive process. As soon as I have found X, it can no longer be X: It's visible and well-known.
P.S. you could also translate "discovery" as "detection", then the invisible would be the mistake or the gap.
Andrea Sick
Bremen, Germany
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