Ian Kenrick Jackson

In my practice opacity, de-stabilisation and indeterminacy play an important role. These are manifest firstly with the image itself, which in its selection includes a high degree of chance, and which subsequently undergoes various processes of modification. Secondly with the system of annotation - poetics, lists, diagrams, references and white space - that surrounds the artwork. This latter develops a form of supplement after Derrida, which re-situates but also transcends the aesthetic object, implying at the same time a critique of its status. The idea is to establish that a document of two 'events' - source and supplement - creates an emergent third performative event that is neither art nor static commentary but a field of creative advance, in the processual tradition of Whitehead.