CosmiKnot

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• Open performance forum with the artists 11 am Wednesday 5th April. 

A collective speculative temporary community. Re-enchanting the region of disenchantment through the shifting myth-concepts of Aesthetic Ontology.  

The exhibition features international artists from inside and outside The University of East London. The works proliferate a capacity for cultural shift through art practice. The selected artists reveal that the seemingly private process of creative expression is simultaneously a part of a speculative plurality. The problem becomes woven into the song-solution of process. Their conviction is enough for a transforming shift to occur simply because, as Barad suggests, human imagination really is a part of the known universe. 

We don't obtain knowledge by standing outside the world; we know because we are of the world. 

Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway

Barad’s simple statement is impossibly tangled to grasp for the human control-module mind that has forgotten placing itself outside the world in order to obtain knowledge. The artists in this exhibition create a Cosmiknot by weaving this problem (Not!) into the vibrant matter of an extra-embodied encounter with knowing. Their art, whether we like it or not, works as what Barad suggests is, “part of the world in its differential becoming”.