home

wordimages : : who is : : curved space paintings : : hybrid artworks : : nonlinear artworks

ART BY IAN M CLOTHIER

This is an archive site, for current projects and information, go to intercreate.org/ian

ARTIST STATEMENT

I identify with hybrid Pitcairn-Norfolk culture. Hybrid cultures, to paraphrase Homi Bhabha, reinscribe authority based on contingency rather than tradition. My position is that this heritage legitimates the hybridisation of content.

It is also my aim to incorporate nonlinearity into art works. This gives rise to the possibility of considering the structure of works of art to be 'an articulation of superpositions... an interconnection of diverse but related elements' in the words of Deleuze and Guattari.

In terms of process I work with gaps and independent components that can be reconstituted exponentially, across and in between diverse media.

One multiplicity, intervening sameness, seeking meaning.

 

These webpages cover four areas of creative practice: wordimages (which includes digital and interactive moving image), curved picture space paintings (formulated on the basis of research into cosmology and chaos theory), hybrid cultural artworks and nonlinear artworks (based on heritage and research around nonlinearity and cultural hybridity). The archive covers the period of transition from painting to digital media.

sponsors : www.orcon.net.nz