by Zdeněk Lyčka, Laura Riuttanen, Mireia Saladrigues and Janne Salovaara
From art and science, something old and familiar we construct artence and from their amalgamated practice; the artentic search—pre and post re-search, when we, the human— ancestral or child, used to invent the reality we lived in.
It’s not defined alone by the questions it seeks to answer nor can you point to it by distinguishing its outcomes, but you can find it in children exploring the nearby forest as much as it is in the attempt of human development where we acknowledge the multiple crises but cannot seem to invent ourselves out of.
By acknowledging the history or knowledge and creation, we acknowledge that crises that root from the very human are to be solved by taking a leap in the development of the human, not its technology or economy, for example, but the very path we seem to be dependent on.
Be a scientist—when it suits your exploration, or be an artist—if that fits your urge, but foremost be an inventor of new, and defy the boxed paths that limit you and instead define the search by being an artentist.
Adopted from a workshop memo, Melbu, June 2023