Following on from their workshop series held for the Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts’ The Only Lasting Truth is Change symposium, multidisciplinary artist Mark Fell and philosopher Robin Mackay discuss the relationship between practice and theory and examine beliefs about creative practices. For example, relationships between creativity and technology, approaches to collaboration, concerns with authorship and agency; as well as ideas about inspiration, expression and communication of meaning as the fundamental principles of creative production. How do such beliefs not only structure creative practices, but also the spaces and systems intended to facilitate and contain those practices?
The conversation looks back at the workshop series, as well as taking up major themes from Fell’s newly released book Structure and Synthesis: The Anatomy of Practice. From the unspoken theoretical underpinnings of ‘practice’ to the logistics, economic and material constraints on ‘doing theory’, and at a time when technology intervenes in our thinking as well as our actions, is the distinction between theory and practice now obsolete? How do our physical and technical environments become a part of our thought processes? What models can we turn to in order to redraw or reject the tension between the cognitive and the productive?
More information on the event and tickets here: https://bek.no/en/mark-fell-robin-mackay-rewilding-practice-2/
