Loose Assemblages : The Movement of Ideas and Feelings
Bento's Sketchbook : John Berger
Existence appertains to the nature of substance.
A substance cannot be produced from anything else: it will therefore be its own cause, that is its essence necessarily involves existence, or, existence appertains to its nature.
Ethics, Part 1, Proposition VII, Proof
Conscious minds arise from establishing a relationship between organism and an object-to-be-known.
The Feeling of What Happens, Body, Emotion and the Making of Consciousness
Antonio Damasio. 1999.
Architectural Body
Organism-Person-Environment
Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot points, to place things and to place oneself.
The Human Body through drawing and philosophy
Berger/Spinoza 141
Matters of a discursive consciousness are explicit and explainable, and the line between discursive and practical consciousness is fluctuating and permeable, both drawing on the other in the act of agency/making social.
The defining point of agency is namely its potential to transform the given.
Generative energies, entanglements, sensorial diversions from an open studio window overlooking Anglia Square
Improvisations/choreographed with the music/ambient noise are exploratory encounters between flesh and sound
A hut of ones own (within and bounded by others), crafted and organized around simple processes and interactions within a fallow site given over to creative ecology of energies and enterprise
Vibrant yet curiously passive form of urbanism
Affectivity as a mimesis of lively transfers between things, humans and non-humans
Human subjectivity : Mimetic Encounters/Explorations
Art works by gathering up forms and materials for affective experimentations in subjectivity
Corporeal unconscious animated by sensitivities/sympathies, a putative affinity (haptic) between certain things including bodies and organs which makes them liable not only to be similarly affected by the same influence, but more especially to affect or influence one another.
Intentionality/Sympathy/Sentiment/Difference
Inducing a particular set of ethical/political/social responses in actor/social audience
Mimesis : Paradox or Encounter. Jane Bennett
Calling a sympathy/subjectivity between coloured cloth/wallpaper/display cabinet and human flesh
Francesca Woodman
Mimesis and suggestion in the social,enacted through layers of mediation surrounding humans, objects and non-humans.
Camouflage. Neil Leach
Mimesis
Sensuous Correspondence
Sympathetic Magic
Mimicry
Becoming
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