2025-03-27 16:15

knowledge-as-a-fossil

The creation and sharing of knowledge unfolds in a state of uncertainty and flux. During this creative process artists, as well as scientists, enter an embodied participative status of becoming. This experience can be very exhilarating and rewarding. Knowledge created by this process is like a fossil, a trace left behind by embodied creative interaction. Again the public are unfamiliar with the uncertainty associated with this process and this state of being. Instead they see the fossil and are unable to bring it back to life. Similarly, sheet music is not the same as music as it is played and heard.

Knowledge is not an artefact, knowledge is performative.

References

https://www.mikestubbsart.com/criticality-imagination-interaction