Instability, Employed
000001“Instability, Employed” considers instability not as a flaw, but as the fundamental condition of both perception and creation. Drawing on the logic of indeterminate systems, it approaches imbalance as a point of origin rather than deviation.
The approach is to examine the illusion of balance as a constructed assumption—one that conceals continuous motion and uncertainty. In response, it proposes the realisation of enclosed spaces in which instability can be engaged, rather than avoided.
Within these conditions, authorship dissolves, and the work becomes a field of exposure rather than possession.
Pendulum “…If a pendulum is displaced from its state of rest by a slight push, it will eventually return to its original (lowest) position. This is a well-studied stable phenomenon.
However, if the pendulum is positioned so that its weight is at the point opposite to the lowest position, then sooner or later it will fall either to the right or to the left, and even a very small vibration is sufficient to determine the direction of its fall. This upper (unstable) position of the pendulum has rarely been the focus of researchers’ attention.
The reason is that the phenomenon of instability naturally leads to highly nontrivial and serious problems, the first of which is the problem of prediction.”
Ilya Prigogine