Speculative Tectonics : A Poetic of Construction

Tectonics in architecture is defined as "the science or art of construction, both in relation to use and artistic design." It refers not just to the "activity of making the materially requisite construction that answers certain needs, but rather to the activity that raises this construction to an art form." It is concerned with the modeling of material to bring the material into presence: from the physical into the meta-physical world.

http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/78804




Situate them in such a way that useful space for life may form itself amidst them.
Kazimar Malevich 1924

Zaha Hadid on Malevich • BBC CH/4

Spatiality : Wandering beyond/between figure and ground

TateShots: A Bigger Splash – Painting After Performance

Pastoral Space: Material, Inquiry, Art and Craft

Material Agency : Carl Knappett, Lambros Malafouris
Visualising Environmental Agency

"Agents are defined as persons or things, which have the ability and intention to "cause" something "in the vicinity" or "in the mileau" to happen ( Gell 1998)"

"These latter artefacts are described with the term "index", to remove the appellation "art" and to imply that they are indexes of agency."

Some Stimulating Solutions, Andrew Cochrane.

Transformative Drawing Processes
Sun Printed Cyanotype

The sun has gone mad and stripped the earth of its ionosphere. For decades blasting radiation has poured upon earth, melting the polar caps and turning permafrost into streams, rivers, oceans. Huge deltas have been built, lakes formed, seas have risen.

The Drowned World, JG Ballard.

Alfredo Pirri : RWD-FWD

http://www.domusweb.it/en/art/2017/02/16/alfredo_pirri_rwd_fwd.html#tw2

Comprising 144 prints, this work is the fruit of research into the cyanotype technique which makes it possible to create large-format off camera photo prints featuring intense shades of blue.

http://www.nomasfoundation.com/en/mostre/alfredo-pirri-rwd-fwd/

"a mystery to myself" Turn Back Now : Keith Tyson, Jerwood Hastings 2017

TURN BACK NOW, Keith Tyson

http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/bp-artist-talk-keith-tyson
"I see the work as a giant piece of apparatus" 22.32

Working Spaces : Force Fields, sign and trace

Contents List from a folder in the Theatre of Research

 Unlike a Library the Theatre of Research is a working space that creates and crafts both theoretical and practical objects, things and documentation. Its reason for being is to explore the praxis for creative narratives between the Arts and The Humanities.

Chora Body and Building

Space as Membrane

Chora (Exhibition) 1999

Lessons of a dream. Karsten Harries

Concrete Blonde: Joanna Merwood

A probe into the negative spaces where mysteries are created.

Surrealist Paris : Dagmar Motycka Watson

The non-perspectival space of the lived city

Body and Building : George Dodds

Essays on the changing relation of body and architecture.

Sphere and Cross : Karsten Harries

Vitruvian refections on the Pantheon Type

Body and Building : Marcia f. Feuerstein

Inside the Bauhaus’s Darker Side

Desiring Landscapes/Landscapes of Desire. George Dodds

A Tradition of Architectural Figures: Marco Frascari

Interwining Metamorphoses : Germano Celant

On the work of Guiseppe Penone

Space as a Membrane : Siegried Ebeling

Sensorium : Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art.

https://citythroughthebody.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/sensorium.pdf

"into a universe of creative enchantments" Guattari

 The French thinker Felix Guattari, in a powerful historical essay, has asked some fundamental questions about the direction in which the century and its achievements in technology are taking us; he calls for a new vitality in the relations between individuals and the language of the culture they inhabit:' Unconscious figures of power and knowledge are not universals. They are tied to reference myths profoundly anchored in the psyche, but they can still swing around toward liberatory paths/voices.' He too sketches the possibility of a utopia, dreaming of 'transforming this planet - a living hell for over three quarters of its population - into a universe of creative enchantments'.

Marina Warner, From the Beast to the Blonde (p418)