Contextual Portfolio ~ Delores

Delores work is sensitive to the context of your time and there is a very innovative approach to it. He talks about the idea of old concepts as being a bit like law, or a court case, if we apply what he is saying about law, he is questioning the idea that when a judge does what he does it look back through a textbook of law cases, finds the one that fits the situation most and then applies it. 

What happens in reality is that the application of the law should have something unfamiliar in the case that he is presented with, and it should be creatively responded to. What Delores wants to say is that the law doesn't operate like that and it's fundamental that there is a massive amount of innovation and the court is a very creative space as the judges have to create new kinds of law to respond to unique situations. 90% of law is jurisprudence where the laws are created in response to a new case. C.S Pierce, abductive reasoning we are confronted with something unusual. You have to generate a hypothesis on what might happen and what would wrong put things. The construction of a hypothesis is created by seeing something irregular and creating something for it. This involves a creative thought process.

 Both are showing us that every aspect of the research process, they all require an enormous amount of creative thinking. They are very tied to the idea of semiotics, the idea of receiving signs from the world that indicate that something is going on and then trying to work through those situations and solve them.  Delores is one of the more contemporary artistic theorists and he does something very interesting in terms of how he theorises art itself, he tried to materialise art, ultimately all aspects of creativity come down to the material transverse of the world he doesn't try and place the operation of creativity at the level of the artist. It's the world, matter itself that is creative and not artists, he has a very scientific picture of what art is as he sees it as the worlds producing new stuff and within a material changing world. He gives the world a creative agenda. This is what creates a new context. It's a very confrontational position within the arts, it invests nothing in the artist and the artist is just a shell and an expression of the creativity in the world. It ties together, matter, sensation and concepts and it's this materialist agenda that plugs it I tot he sciences but gives it an artistic view of scientific investigation.