An Inductive Project explores the potential of future museums and arts centers to evolve, grow and adapt through the exploration of non-conscious intelligences.
Marcos Lutyens’ An Inductive Museum project was inspired by working with the Solomon Guggenheim Museum. He started the investigation with an opening hypnosis performance, as keynote artist, at Culture Summit 2019, Abu Dhabi for a live international audience of 500 people and an online viewership of a quarter of a million people.
The project is a program that works with museum curators, directors and personnel from around the world to evolve the museum or center of the arts as a vehicle of expanded consciousness.
An Inductive Project is showcased as part of the Solo Exhibitions area at the Armory Show in collaboration with the Alberta Pane Gallery. The artist presents new artworks especially conceived for the exhibition and inspired by Lutyens’ interactions with the Lincoln Center.
The artworks on the wall are three-fold: the two-dimensional works represent a cascade of synesthetic visionary moments suspended within the Lincoln Center Plaza as experienced by the artist while working there on the opera Song of the Ambassadors. The three-dimensional works are ceramic artworks that are these same visionary forms extruded into the Gallery space as tactile objects.
At the center of the space is an emotive-haptic circular ceramic sculpture out of which rises an augmented reality spiral of tactile-emotive forms. This work invites visitors to immerse themselves in the cosmology that Lutyens evokes, while also suggesting the limitless dimensions that art can embrace. This piece is also sold as a unique NFT that straddles realities as a ‘phygital’ physical-digital artwork.
The works together play with interdimensionality at the boundaries of various intelligences, including those of the artificial, psychedelic, emotional and unconscious and seek to reflect how art centers and museums must move with their audiences towards building programs that are emotive, neuronal and inter-dimensional.