The Cat in the Box in the Forest of Falling Trees

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Daniel Hosego's latest installation challenges the established relationship between the viewer, artwork and artist by inserting the viewer in the centre of a constantly changing dynamic of interrelating positions and asking them to define where the boundaries lie. The title is a reference to both Erwin Schrodinger's àŠ»Cat in a Box' thought experiment and Bishop George Berkley's metaphysical musings on the possibility of unperceived existence. Schrodinger's experiment hypothesized that a cat locked in a steal box with a radioactive substance can exist indefinitely as both dead and alive as long as no one opens the box and determines its fate. Berkley's àŠ»A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge' (1710) marks the genesis of the idea that would eventually become articulated into the famous paradox àŠ»If a tree falls in the forest but no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?" - DH