[spectre] (fwd) LABoral Gijon/ES presents Process as Paradigm

[Andreas Broeckmann]

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial

El Proceso Como Paradigma
(Process as Paradigm)
Art in development, flux and change
23 April - 30 August 2010

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
Los Prados, 121
33394 Gijón (Asturias) Spain
Tel: +34 985 185 577
Fax: +34 985 337 355
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At this point in time, we, the global society, 
are experiencing a series of processes that have 
seemingly got out of our control while, more than 
even, we are equipped to observe and monitor 
them. Ongoing conflicts in various parts of the 
world, the sudden meltdown of world economy and 
the menaces of climate change, to name only the 
big headlines, are valid proof that we are deeply 
involved in social, ecologic and economic 
processes which are of such complexity that we 
have become aware of our limitations to manage 
them in their entirety, if this is at all 
possible. By the same token, a major shift takes 
place from an industrial culture based on the 
concept of the final product to a 
post-industrial, networked culture, the latter 
being built on the concept of global trade, 
production systems and service industries.

Given this background, it would only seem natural 
that innovative contemporary art no longer holds 
onto the safe properties of the final object, the 
ultimate manifestation of a creative process, but 
moves to the uncertain territory of 
unpredictability and successive live generation 
of form. Artists increasingly explore the 
complexity, the temporal aspect, the 
interdependence and the self-organisation of 
processes. They deal with these matters almost on 
a scientific level, which makes their artworks 
become experiments and test set-ups rather than 
controllable systems.

The exhibition Process Becomes Paradigm shows 
that processes are indeed becoming one of the 
mayor paradigms and creative strategies in 
contemporary art. The exhibition confronts us 
with art that is in continuous flux and 
execution, that has a life of its own, that 
grows, changes and decays. The artworks 
investigate the vague terrain between 
pre-programming and autonomy, between present 
development and randomness, thus delivering 
surprising insights into the nature of 
non-teleological processes and a novel 
understanding of art -- art as a form of 
prototyping, continuously prototyping the natural 
and generating the social. When Process becomes 
Paradigm presents the work of 25 artists or 
artists groups whose creations range from 
biological, automated to social processes or who 
visualise processes in real time.

CURATORS: Susanne Jaschko y Lucas Evers, Amsterdam
ARTISTS: Jelte van Abbema, Boredomresearch, Ralf 
Bäcker, Gregory Chatonsky, Adrian Cuervo, Ursula 
Damm, Driessens & Verstappen, Peter Flemming, 
Isabelle Jenniches, Roman Kirschner, Allison 
Kudla, Luna Maurer, Marta de Menezes, Henrik 
Menné, Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel, Aymeric 
Mansoux/ Marloes de Valk, Leo Peschta, Julius 
Popp, Casey Reas, RYBN.ORG, Antoine Schmitt, Ralf 
Schreiber, Warren Sack, Jan Peter Sonntag
VENUE: Salas 1A & 1B
PRODUCTION: LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
GRAPHIC DESIGN: The Studio of Fernando Gutiérrez



WORKSHOP SEMINAR INTERACTIVOS? PROCESS AS PARADIGM
A collaboration of LABoral and Medialab-Prado of 
Area of Arts of Madrid City Council

DATES OF WORKSHOP: 8th to 20th of April 2010, from 10.30 am to 20 pm
SEMINARS: Thursday and Friday 8th and 9th, 15th 
and 16th, and Tuesday 20th of April, from 10.30 am
PARTICIPATION: the participation is free, registration is not neccesary
VENUE: LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón (Spain)


Interactivos? are hybrids between a production 
workshop, a seminar and a showcase. A space for 
reflection, research, and collaborative work is 
created, in which proposals selected by an 
international open call are developed, completed 
and displayed. Interactivos? is a research and 
production platform for the creative and 
educational uses of technology. The process is 
open to the public from beginning to end.

The seven selected proposals in a international 
call will be developed by the authors and 
collaborators during the workshop prior to the 
opening of the exhibition Process as Paradigm, on 
April 23rd 2010. The projects will become part of 
the exhibition. This exhibition, curated by 
Susanne Jaschko and Lucas Evers, reveals a huge 
shift from a culture based on the concept of 
manifestation and the final product (industrial 
society) to a culture of process. The 
Interactivos? workshop leading up to the 
exhibition is devoted to the production of 
artworks which follow the thesis of the 
exhibition.

Selected projects: Driven By by André Gonçalves, 
Everything is under control by Tommaso Lanza and 
Cathrine Kramer, FrankenFoodCart by Zackery 
Denfeld, Scan-it by María Castellanos and Alberto 
Valverde, Photographic spatial experiment by 
Boris Oicherman, Practice Mapping by Marco 
Quaggiotto and Wouter Van den Broeck and 
Territoris Oblidats by Inês Salpico.

Check the projects and the full programme at 
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LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial is a 
space for artistic exchange. It is set up with 
the purpose of establishing an effective alliance 
between art, design, culture, industry and 
economic progress and the goal of becoming a 
space for interaction and dialogue between art, 
new technologies and industrial creation. It 
throws a special spotlight on production, 
creation and research into art concepts still 
being defined.

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
Los Prados, 121
33394 Gijón (Asturias) Spain
Tel: +34 985 185 577
Fax: +34 985 337 355
<mailto:info at laboralcentrodearte.org>info at laboralcentrodearte.org
<http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org>http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org