{∞} manifesto;

2010-07-21T08:54:00.001-07:00

This short manifesto is addressed to all practitioners across art and design disciplines:

‘For too long, arts praxis has been subject to the laws of bureaucracy, materiality, empiricism, and the phenomena of space and time. This praxis undermines artistic freedom.

In order to find the answers to the most fundamental metaphysical questions, achieve artistic freedom, reveal paradoxes, uncover unhealthy bureaucratic practices, promote learning and nurture flux in the arts, we need to let go of these laws and find new ground. This task is seemingly possible with the aid of the mathematical instrument of set theory; a praxis that I call ‘sets art’.

Sets art departs from the commodified theoretical views so predominant in the fine arts. In contrast, sets art is an infinite and holistic, malleable praxis composed of pure potential where limitations, rigidity, hierarchies, a priori & a posteriori knowledge, fixed methodologies and fragmentations are revealed and sublime immaterial expressions communicated. Hence, there are constant opportunities for the artist’s learning and growth.

I term the pre-conceptual system or structure, this critical practice reveals, the infinite set {∞} whose subsets and elements are all abstract beings and entities. The infinite set {∞} could also be described as God or Substance; a Substance conceived through itself that does not depend on the conception of another thing from which it must be formed…[to be continued]’

{∞}= [-∞…-π...-3…-e… -2… -√2... -1….Ø…1/2…1…2…e…3..π…99 …+∞]

@ Assemblage [Plymouth,U.K, November 2009]

2010-06-04T03:20:00.000-07:00

Title: The infinite set {∞} is God or Substance, 2009
Media: Installation (Acetate transparency and seven blank Russian dolls)
Miguel Oliveros