Sunday, 2 April 2023

Social sites of space/situatedness/matter : Explorations in developing spatial intelligence

Discursive and practical apparatuses, both drawing on the other in the act of agency.

The defining point of agency is namely its potential to transform the given.  

Spinoza : Practical Philosophy by Gilles Deleuze

Bento's Sketchbook : John Berger









Beams and Netting: Negotiations in the chamber, Hyde Abbey Gatehouse, Winchester.

Clay, hessian, drawings and transparencies, drawing frame, antique glass, lead and nylon lines.

‘Leylines’ has been appropriated and employed as both a practical and as a conceptual strategy to inquiry into places and localities. Site visits and sensitive dialogues with the other artists at a number of locations have further brought materials and processes into the creative realm. The spatial practice of setting-up this work has produced a social narrative of its own invention.

This intervention into a listed building has become a temporary refuge for a work in progress. The work attempts to show a creative agency as it encounters a host of installed hierarchies and conditions. The architectural motif on the drawings has been derived directly from the open apertures of the chamber.

Artist’s Book: white and coloured pages

A hand-bound book comprising of five signatures each with four folios. This book contains a collection of postcards made from contact prints and photograms from Tidbury Ring using the cyanotype process.








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