Quantum Potential

Keeping one eye on activity prior to their making, these works consider our experience of a state of possibility as a comparison to debate around the ‘quantum potential’ proposed by the de Broglie-Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics.

The de Broglie-Bohm interpretation suggests the reality of the wavefunction of atoms which, in this comparison, may reflect on our working from possibility to unique actualisation, in whatever form: these works focus on the real space and real time surroundings of the subject, the consideration of all the conditions of the works production as possible determinants of choices. They explore the formation of the actual as an iterative process, in which individual agency, reliant on physical conditions, may also be guided by what has gone before.

The potential ‘reality’ of this arena of possibility reflects on our understandings of materiality, and extends how, especially artistic activity, may be termed ‘concrete’.