exhibition

Infinite Becomings is a hybrid. It takes shape as a site-specific installation and beyond geographic limits as a zine and web archive. Augmented Reality filters which can be used with all forms of the work, bridge the gap between digital and physical space. Infinite Becomings exists as a multiplicity, shifting between physical, digital and relational forms. Each exists in tandem with the other, to form a collective whole.

Infinite Becomings began as a process, a pre-existing method framed by the writing of Peter Osborne. Within Lucida we prioritise growing ‘processes’ over finished ‘objects’. Each idea or draft becomes a fragment; an initial ‘finite form’ that is an origin to ‘infinite’ multiplicities, where these incomplete fragments manifest into an ‘artistic process of infinite becomings’¹. This conceptual framework nourishes our collaborative processes, where through discussions; a fragment becomes remixed and remade into layers and layers and layers.....

In an exhibition space, this state of becoming is manifested into an installation. Infinite Becomings is a space where thoughts and ideas are nurtured. Discarded, resting, gestating, unfurling fragments inhabit the space in three-dimensional form. Each fragment (work in process/ image, object, text), will be installed with the conversations, notes and drafts that they developed from. Fragments which will make up the installation include;
floating frames, glitching images, quiet light, living terrariums, lost statues, and sculptural poems. Incomplete fragments connect with others to coalesce into one, whole ‘state of becoming’². Our collective stream of consciousness will grow into being along the gallery walls, becoming an expanded brainstorm; an exhibition as notebook. From outside, the NCAD Gallery window will frame and shape the installation, giving passersby an insight into the process of the works as they develop.

Viewers can connect digitally to Infinite Becomings via AR filters and the installation’s online manifestation. This website archive will hold fragments of works in process, video documentation of the install and a series of podcasts exploring our key concepts. The AR filters allow visuals to appear over physical work while using a smartphone, revealing a digital layer of development from each fragment. Both reflect our new adaptations to the pandemic; where our encounters with artwork, the forms they take and spaces they occupy fluctuate between the physical and digital. The AR filters can be used in situ through the Gallery window and over images in the Infinite Becomings zine. To reach viewers at home the zine will be available via post from the Infinite Becomings website. The zine visualises the collective stream of consciousness and includes a postal project that allows viewers to become part of this flow.

This is the first iteration in a series of Infinite Becomings' growth. It existed as a physical entity in the NCAD gallery space from the 13th April to 11th May, 2021. Each new layer of development will be manifested again in a new propagator space.

¹,² Peter Osborne, Anywhere Or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art, London: Verso, 2013