Some combinations: Praxis, multimodal art research and complex environments
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2014-02-26
Authors
Williams, Quinten Edward
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Abstract
This project (“theoretical component” and “practical component”) explores a philosophical
understanding as well as my experiential understandings of environments as complex systems
(Cilliers 2005, 2007; Deleuze & Guattari 1987, 1994; Morin 1999, 2007, 2008). I have
understood the engagements in environments as being co-constitutive of assemblages
(Deleuze & Guattari 1987). Through the production of works of art and its processes (Deleuze
& Guattari 1994) in different modalities (Cole & Masny 2009) as praxis (Deleuze 2004a), these
undertakings can be understood as creative arts research.
It could be construed that this project moves around three areas, namely, those of creative arts
research, environments understood through complexity, and Johannesburg city as a complex
environment. In a sense, however, this dissertation is only one entry point into an embedded
research project, which has been engaged with materials and bodies in environments. This is
a complex area (Cilliers 2005, 2007; Morin 1999, 2007), an area which deals with
heterogeneity and becoming (Deleuze and Guattari 1987, 1994).