Cause + Effect

STACKS Projects 4 – 21 July, 2019 Gillian Kayrooz · Tina Stefanou · Jessica Thallmaier Using existing mathematical theories, which map uncertainty as its foundation – Chaos Theory, Butterfly Effect, Dynamical Systems – Cause + Effect investigates the highly sensitive nature of causal sequences. These scientific expressions of incidental happenings are the nonlinear flow of force or energy, dependent on time and geographical space, creating unpredictable results through its sensitive variances. Arguably, all art embodies an action and a reaction. Cause creates effect, in turn impacting a grand narrative or larger reality. Even the most minute actions create residual consequences, repercussions that cannot be controlled or predicted. Often these actions are so minuscule we cannot determine which changes effected which outcomes. Cause + Effect uses this particular branch of science as a point of reference, stimulating further discussion around concepts of community, physicality, identity, and material domains. Cause + Effect functions as a metaphysical enquiry into art as it is made and as it functions in the gallery space. These works and their concepts are not exempt from change and are wholly vulnerable to the instability of worldly conditions and the forces enacted upon them, both theoretical and literal. In amalgamating methodologies of art and science, we continue to move away from specific modes of interpretation relating to science, philosophy or art, and towards the realisation of the third space of curating and art.