Emergency Responses explores how individuals create systems in order to make sense of an unpredictable and chaotic universe
My series of ten diagrammatic drawings, An Instruction Manual on How to be Lucky and short film Threshold Magnitude, look at the human impulse to create systems as a paradoxical attempt to find freedom through the imposition rules and constraints. There is a tension that arises from creating systems, as they simultaneously broaden our understanding, clarifying the structure of things, and narrow our perspectives, as gradually all that was nebulous and multiverse precipitates into defined, singular forms.
Image: Threshold Magnitude by Carolina Arsenii atRMIT First Site Gallery, Melbourne Photo Credit: Eloise Coomber Watch at: https://vimeo.com/349779269 (password: ThresholdMagnitude)
Diagram: 1.1. All that Hard Work and Other Stories, 30 x 30 cm, Mixed Media on Paper Diagram 1.2: No Such Thing as a Hunty Lucky Party, 30 x 30 cm, Mixed Media on Paper
Diagram 1.3 Watch Your Step, 30 x 30 cm, Mixed Media on PaperDiagram 1.4 Instructions on How to overthrow the Patriarchy 30 x 30 cm, Mixed Media on PaperDiagram 1.5: Reuse, Recycle, 30 x 30 cm, Mixed Media on Paper
Diagram 1.6: Looking Awry, 30 x 30 cm, Mixed Media on PaperDiagram 1.7: Another Common Example of Category Error, 30 x 30 cm, Mixed Media on Paper Diagram 1.8: The History Lesson, 30 x 30 cm, Mixed Media on PaperDiagram 1.9: Triangulations, 30 x 30 cm, Mixed Media on PaperDiagram 1.10: How to create a Time Funnel , 30 x 30 cm, Mixed Media on Paper Diagram 1.11: Two People Looking Forward to Two Things (A Mathematical Proof) 30 x 30 cm, Mixed Media on Paper