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Emergence
In philosophy and science, emergence is a new way of understanding how interactions between complex processes can produce unexpected and innovative outcomes. This approach has been very useful in reconceptualising creativity and artistic practices as interactive behaviors involved with complex social and material entanglements.
‘Emergence’ suggests that artworks can arise, like hope, spontaneously from complex interwoven events in the world. Yet, somehow, these artworks are not reducible or precisely traceable to these events. How is this emergence to be understood?
We welcome various thematic focuses such as:
- Artworks and essays that engage directly or indirectly with unanticipated material, conceptual, social and psychological complexity arising from experiments in facture, procedure, events and participatory exchanges
- Outcomes that allow us to reflect on what is premeditated and what is spontaneous in art
- The political or ethical implications of emergent complexity in climate art or performance
- Multisensory complexities arising from making or experiencing artworks
- Psychoanalytical reverberations of nurturing and caring for emergent and complex stories, archives, or bio artworks, live art, or animals in art
- Curatorial emergent properties arising from any of the above
Submission deadline: July 15, 2025
Please send submissions to Gregory Minissale and Avantika Bawa