Can’t stop emerging.Forever the ‘emerging artist.’
- Dr Lila Moore
- Sep 24
- 1 min read
This piece engages with Damien Davis’s recent article in Hyperallergic and challenges the structural limits placed on artists by the “emerging” category — as if emergence has an expiry date.
can’t stop emerging
forever
the emerging artist
forever artist
always emerging
timeless
eternal
never ending emergency
the emerging artist
This piece is screen choreography derived from stills of a performance for the camera, re-choreographed through an AI model. It critiques the outdated notion of the “emerging artist,” exposing how the term operates not only as a label but as an obstacle within the art world.
Inspired by Damien Davis’s article “When Artists Are Too Old to Be ‘Emerging’” (Hyperallergic, September 20, 2025), the performance — created for the still camera in my early (emerging) twenties — is re-emerging as a state of timeless becoming.
This stance rejects an imposed category that obstructs the organic flow and emergence of artistic trajectories, which often occurs in a non-linear and liminal time.
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