Sean langton
My work is a search for, or an attempt at expressing, aspects of our experience as beings which cannot be literally translated into words. Trying to fashion a meaningful communication which is not bound definitively by purely literal, cliche or illustrative forms. The work explores aspects of our experience as beings which is to some extent free from limitations imposed by our social existence. The hope is to tangentially unravel something of what it is to exist outside of the pressures of our human and interpersonal rule systems.
To date my work has focused on making invisible patterns of interaction tangible, amplifying feedback systems. Our world is filled with many complex feedback patterns, both positive and negative. Dying, giving birth or coming to orgasm can all be seen biologically as positive feedback systems where a stimulus creates an effect which engenders the production of more stimuli. The energy increases until the system reaches crisis, (the baby is born) after which there is a recovery or lull then the organism is ready to again take part within the process.
Many of my pieces mechanically take on something of the life of these patterns in order to exist and communicate in the realm of mutual interaction. The viewer and the viewed are immersed with a system of reciprocal influence where, potentially, meanings can be conveyed which exist outside of pre-defined forms of communication.
Last updated on 9th January 2007
