1/30/2024 0 Comments Instal Nulloy![]() ![]() Thus, based on our own subjectivity, we create a framework of universal ‘objective ideas’ – abstract concepts we all agree on, which we call ‘science’. Israel Rosenfield argues that subjectivity implies the incompleteness of knowledge – which is the key driver in the search for scientific objectivity. In this sense, the self-referential is what gives rise to subjectivity. Kurt Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem, based on the sentence ‘This statement is unprovable’, demonstrates that in a self-referential system it is impossible to decide whether every element in that system can be proved true or false. While ‘synchronization’ obviously refers to time, it is a term also used in discussing complexity, interconnectivity, self-reflexivity and the self-referential, all themes which occur in Barnes’s work. Her recent body of work, Synchronization, shown in the Ballina Arts Centre in May, was drawn from many of these sources and in particular was influenced by her time spent as Artist in Residence at the laboratory of St James Hospital. One of the historical ironies of this ‘two cultures’ theory is that experimentation is now central to art practice.īarnes is in an ideal situation from which to explore the similarities of the ‘two cultures’, having had a previous career working in hospitals as a nurse as well as being involved in several arts-in-health projects. The key question dividing them is the nature of the investigation, yet the split only began in the seventeenth century due to the invention of the experimental method and Francis Bacon’s stress on inductive reasoning. ![]() This commonality in action and gesture underlying the practices of the hospital, laboratory, kitchen and studio form a core element in the work of Dublin artist Lucia Barnes.Īt the same time, there is clearly a tension here, between the “familiar charm of the domestic" and the “seemingly relentless scrutiny of clinical, scientific investigation." This tension led Wilhelm Dilthey in the late nineteenth century to stress the difference between the natural and the human sciences, in which the former seeks explanation based on the development of models, while the latter seeks understanding through the use of metaphor. While these spaces and the tasks performed within them were dominated by men working in their professional capacity, they were similar to those in the kitchen, dominated by women working within the domestic sphere. Across medieval Europe physicians, apothecaries and painters, all working with similar raw materials, united together in the guilds of St Luke. The laboratory and the studio have a shared origin within the guild system, as the site of what were essentially craft practices. ![]()
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