Process
Like all creative projects, completion generally occurs when they interface with the public, whether performance, exhibition, concert, published work or some other form. As a transmedia artist, generating critically creative works across disciplinary and cultural spheres, Lynn Book has immersed herself in the detailed and expansive terrain of ‘process’. Throughout her life, she has been concerned with inventive approaches of knowledge making that don’t conform to normative standards or canonical convention. Rather, her aim as an artist is to challenge forms of art that hew to disciplinary requirements.
The development of technique as a way to transform it, even reinvent it, is necessary to the path of this artist, not technical prowess as a measure of professional expertise. Book’s life-long involvement with teaching and learning arenas, both within and outside of institutional spaces, suggests another reason for her commitment to process. The decidedly experimental focus for Book as both an artist and an artist who teaches is on modes of discovery that lead to transformation – destabilizing, exhilarating, change felt in far-reaching, bodily ways.
That said, the practices that Book activates are grounding, and also move together in a sustaining creative process that is recursive, enfolding as it unfolds pathways, directions, speculations. While the process of making discrete works is revealed in the Projects Collection, these foundational practices combine to give a picture of the artist’s life behind and beyond public facing projects and works. Included in this Process Collection are several sub-collections:
- writing
- sketchbooks
- drawings and mixed media explorations
- photographs
- audio journal recordings and transcriptions