* INTERRUPTION / INTENSIFICATION

I am interested in the notion of interruption and intensification both as co-joining, complementary terms and as oppositional ones. Quite simply, interruption could be seen as the process of pausing and gathering up that the making public of an idea or group of ideas, propositions and practices (such as an exhibition might be) with intensification being a cogent part of that process as well as what might result. However, the opposition between the two terms provides interesting questions for consideration, particularly if we think of them around the idea of “the event” where a Deleuzian model suggests the event as moments of intensification within a continual and continuing process of becoming – that is, as a continuity of the subject’s becoming without interruption. Yet interruption of course provides us with the possibility of an outside space – a space for something new to emerge and for change to take place.

I am interested, then, to think of the opportunities and problems that this idea of “interruption” as well as the introduction of an “outside” pose for us in respect of the relation field that is the shared language of art practices. (Bridget Crone, 2010)