Alternative Realities : Experimental documents, visual material from site based projects.

Twilight Abstraction : Liminal Zone.

Marking Stick : Leylines, Directions and Sites.

Found Objects : Archaeological Photogram
When you make photograms, without the use of a camera, you can indeed call that abstract photography, as the lens and the corresponding registration medium are lacking. No longer do you have pictures of reality or objects; you only have their shadows. It is a bit like Plato’s cave, where one could only imagine reality; the objects themselves were not visible.
—Thomas Ruff

Waverley Abbey, interior with pinhole camera

Book/Assemblages/Mapping : Body, Static Movement, Blueprints

Spatial Practices
Architecture, Fine Art, Performance
Blueprint, Photogram and Collage.

a thousand plateaus
Deleuze, Guattari

Assemblage

The beauty of the assemblage is that, since it lacks organization, it can draw into its body any number of disparate elements. The book itself can be an assemblage, but its status as an assemblage does not prevent it from containing assemblages within itself or entering into new assemblages with readers, libraries, bonfires, bookstores, etc.


Becoming
Body Without Organs
Nomad
Rhizome
Smooth Space
State
War Machine

http://www.rhizomes.net/issue5/poke/glossary.html

https://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/7459535864

Assemblage/Garden Design : Architectural Plan/Victorian Corset

DSC_6288 Studio Assemblages

The 1960s Body Through Sculptural Movement and Static Dance
Maya Bartel

DSC_6217 Winchester Cathedral : Static Movement/Space for Peace

Pastoral Space: Material,Inquiry and Craft.#3

Pastoral Space: Material,Inquiry and Craft.#3, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Distant Readings : Reflective Journal 2013. #7

Reflective Journal 2013. #7, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Field Perspective and Shadows : After Nature/Ravenna

Field Perspective and Shadows., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Blueprint from pinhole camera, Bramdean, Hampshire.

Hermann Hesse, Poems.

W. G. Sebald, After Nature.

Harleston, Norfolk.

Espace-Milieu : Painting as Environment

 Aerial

 Social Mappings. Winchester Cathedral : 

 Space for Peace 2011.

Crafting the mind : Human Inhumation/Containment

Julian Stair

Quietus/The Body Politic

Morality

Jonathan Sacks

Co-Existing with the Virus

Jozef Van Wissem

Grand Central Confessional

Nature Boy

He said that in the end it is beauty

That is going to save the world, now

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

https://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/

"Spatial turn" 

The increased attention to matters of space, place and mapping in literary and cultural studies, as well as in social theory, philosophy, and other disciplinary fields.

Spatiality, Robert T. Tally Jr. Routledge 2013.

Panspermia : Wonderous Ecologies/Beyond Pantheism

Russell Moreton

Drawing around the body, 2010 Pencil,cyanotype and ink on paper with astronomical data.

https://independent.academia.edu/RussellMoreton

Practitioner using the creative receptiveness of material together with the inclusion of drawing to harbour transits and passages of human presence, vulnerabilities centred around the human condition. My work adopts strategies which articulate a sense of absence and anonymity within the abandonment of the work to its location. I feel drawn to this registering of passage, encounter together with its farewell. The choice of materials gathered together implies a personal geography, with both an emotional and aesthetic sense of locality and place. The performative recording by physical means which renders itself as a trace of human presence, now becomes a vacant territory open for the consideration of others.

My work continues to investigate this sense of material response with the performative trace of a human absences. The place-ment of these acts attempts to promote thresholds from which to reflect upon spatial, sociological and psychological conditions and perceptions.

Currently working in clay, low fired to produce and promote a fragile vessel. This vessel is installed to act as a dwelling presence reverberating in a resting place. from which work is drawn into the human form to register a surface of absences resulting from past gestures and solitudes

 

Order and randomness, meticulousness and impulsiveness, drawing excess and graphic reduction are just some of the vibrant, tension-loaded poles that characterize the large-format drawings of the German artist Jorinde Voigt (b. 1977).

Her works condense various elements of the cultural environment in the dynamic sequences of strokes, turbulently curving lines, diagrammatic structures, numbers, word fragments and collaged color areas of her drawings – which the passionate cello player refers to as “scores” or “notations”. She systematically analyses pop songs or pieces of classical music, kisses, temperature profiles, an eagle’s flight-path, horizon lines or the color values of individual plants and the contents of philosophical texts. Voigt uses measureable parameters like place, time, or sound volume, and self-defined rules or selected algorithms, and combines these fragments and impressions of reality to produce dynamic relational structures, thus creating a polyphony of different ways of perceiving the world.

Jorinde Voigt’s largest solo exhibition to date – which builds a bridge from her early notations, reminiscent of classical conceptual art, to her most recent works that reflect the human desire to fly – traces the development of the specific system of symbols the artist uses to document and orchestrate processes of perception, imagination and thought.

Curator: Stephanie Damianitsch

 Russell Moreton a visual artist uses simple gestures of drawn Human traces gathered and presented amongst natural materials. Exploring themes around the Human condition, vulnerability and abandonment. Materials are employed to further underpin our sense of place and time. The act and gesture of drawing adds a ephemeral mark amongst the materiality and locality of place. Currently using clay to register these themes, installing work Augury Vessel 2010 into Chapel Arts as part of their research residency programme.

Intercessor/Ways of Following : Art, Materiality, Collaboration

Anthropology With Art
Tim Ingold

Curatorial Architectures/Assemblages

Speculative Spatial/Curatorial; Practices in Fine Art and Architectures

The Studio is no longer a retreat but it now integrates.

It is all exterior.

Ways of Curating, Hans Ulrich Obrist

Constructing active research material that becomes transactive through interventions and installations of display.

Blurring art and the everyday rituals of creative enterprise and survival.

Seeking to create innovative and immersive exhibition formats/situations that seek to engage a discursive and informed audience.

Building Relationscapes

Movement, Art, Philosophy 

Ways Of Following
Art, Materiality, Collaboration
Breathing and Dancing
Katve-Kaisa Kontturi
Open Humanities Press

Power of Gentleness
Meditations on the Risk of Living
Anne Dufourmantelle

Out Of Our Heads
Why you are not your brain, and other lessons
from the biology of consciousness
Alva Noe

Russell Moreton
The Aesthetic Spaces Between Objects
Archive

Geometries of Mind
Books, Papers, Readers, Libraries

Hidden Curriculum
Speculative Learning Environment : Russell Moreton.
Re- Imagining Education, Brockwood Park School.

The Scriptorium : Collage and Architecture
Theatre for Research
MAKING PLACE
Speculative/Performative Learning Space
Books
Papers
Readers
Libraries


a thousand plateaus
Deleuze, Guattari

Assemblage
Becoming
Body Without Organs
Nomad
Rhizome
Smooth Space
State
War Machine

Working Towards a Secular Retreat in the Landscape

Light : The Other Architecture : Explorations in Skin, Surface and Subjectivity.

 Outpost  210121

Light : The Other Architecture

Painters have expanded upon a vision of light as vibrating particles and oscillations, conveyed through radiant pigments and a textured impasto lain on with brushwork. The grainy and colourful light they composed is never static, reflecting knowledge that light is like nothing else that enters our world, seeming to never come to rest and always in motion.

Even in the figural pictures of Edward Hopper, we find a light free of the objects with which it mingles.

Whether as a wave of sun spreading over the land, or a sunbeam piercing a dark room. Hopper made the light around the people he painted an evanescent force with which they commune, and seems to be saying that these simple encounters might help to soothe the existential loneliness of the modern citizen.

Henry Plummer, 2009.

For Philippe Dubois, the frame of the photography does not merely contain an imaged field, but is like a cutting device which is inflicted on the subject under the camera's gaze.

 

Unlike the constructive formation of the act of painting, in which detail is built up to fit within its pre-existing and limiting frame, the photograph depends on the coupe: its image is not produced, but deduced, cut out from its surroundings, in a reductive act of soustraction, of decoupage, of sampling, detachment and isolation.

Mary Sabbatino reads Mendieta's placement of the glass on her skin as a radical adjustment of the 'classic window in modernism', as the artist used the device to direct the spectatorial gaze onto her body.

Collapsing onto the flesh the window through which the ideally disembodied modernist gaze is controlled and tamed, Mendieta drew attention to the conditions of viewing in which the spectator is embroiled, elucidating the gaze here as one that fragments its object.

Skin, Surface and Subjectivity, 

Glass : Modernist framing device directing the a spectatorial gaze/Photographic act of a cutting process inflicted on the subject under the cameras gaze.

Filtered Light : 

Using the terms of the medium, to draw attention.

The positive image is produced out of absence, by the shadow cast on the surface of the negative.

A space haunted by the feminine absence and often naked, faceless, blurred and decapitated by the image's framing within the photographic process.

Her body and its framing of/by violence of the processes of negative to positive are implicit in her constant use of serial imagery and repeated motifs.

Bodies in space/Spatial Practice/Agency.

Spatial Theory, Triads, Thinking, Making, Being Seen, Others.

Architectural Body : Skin, Surface and Subjectivity.

Tactility (Entangled intertwining of vision and movement ) depends on the skin rather than the eye.

The act of viewing becomes its own adventure.

Attenuated moments (actualities), instances, periods between things.

The spatial representations of Francesca Woodman and Gordon Matta-Clark.

The artist's book, reading, re-reading and reacting to the existing pages, texts and time.

Art book/the forgotten book as an example of a micro, instance of the larger spatial practice, activated through the performance of the body, hands taping the pictures, thumbing through pages and writing annotations.

The concept of seeing the seeing is a synthesis of the artist's body and viewers bodies in space together.

Architectural Light : Diffractions through Movement : Apparatuses, devices mediating natural/filtered light within spatial settings.

 Outpost 130122

Studio Table

Filtered Light Reader

Architectural Light : Diffractions through Movement

Apparatuses, devices mediating natural/filtered light within spatial settings

On The Nature of Daylight

We Japanese fit additional canopies or verandas outside rooms that the rays of the sun in any case penetrate only with difficulty. 

This is to keep out even more light and ensure that only a diffuse reflection can steal in from the garden through the paper windows.

So the aesthetic element in our rooms is nothing other that this indirect, dim lighting effect.

In Praise of Shadow, Tanizaki Jun'chiro.

Light made material

Kunsthaus Bregenz

Panes of toughened safety glass (2x10mm white glass, 4xPVB film), etched on one side.

Peter Zumthor.

Diaphanous : Translucent Materials/Membranes

Glass

Plastic

Metals

The Architecture Of Light

Recent approaches to designing with natural light.

Mary Ann Steane.

Examines how architects handle the relationship between light, material and the  occupation of space, looking closely at the way in which these factors affect perception of and attunement to the visual environment.

The Architecture of Natural Light

Henry Plummer

The Other Architecture

Constructing metaphysical space

The beholding of light is itself a more excellent and a  fairer thing than all the uses of it.

Francis Bacon, 1561-1626.

The Architecturally Sensitive Glass Works of Bernard Huber

Suzanne Beeh-Lustenberger

Gerhard Richter : Zufall, 748 5 RIC 

Cologne Cathedral/South Transept Window

Glass Fields and Chance

How can arbitrariness be challenged?

By taking chance as the guiding principle in composing the colour fields, and thus employing one of the 'representatives of the real' as a partner in the production of the work.

The question, what is being 'moved' here?

Richter sets in motion a 'switch point' between decidable and undecidable, between controllable and uncontrollable; an in between point, a neither, nor, an exchange.

Chance as an intelligent object.

Chance is a trigger of movement, it produces an interval between starting point and destination.

The Spaces Between : Graphic Works on Glass

Myriam Wierschowski

Veils : Concealing and Opening

Reinhard Lambert Auer

Antique handblown glass samples and cullet

Bernhard Hubert

Glass : Transition-Glasprojekte

Architectural Movements into Light and Dark

Verena Krieger

Work on the Border- Transition of Space

Bernhard Huber's Light Room Installations with and without Glass

There are therefore two polar characteristics at the same time here, and you can see with the preliminary work  of the artist that he experimented between these poles.

On one side there is a logically formal strictness and on the other the loose dynamics of apparent arbitrariness. Both together produce in their exciting simultaneousness the aesthetic charm of the glass  roof  installation. 

Dawson Books Ltd/The Bertram Group

Sowing the seeds of knowledge

Not for resale

Books for educational use only

Work

Brian Clarke

6 Volume edition with slipcase

12.42 Kg

On Being with Krista Tippett : Ann Hamilton Making, and the Spaces We Share

Hamilton asserts that we know things primarily through our skin, the largest organ on our body which both covers and reveals.

The philosopher Simone Weil defined prayer as “absolutely unmixed attention.” 

The artist Ann Hamilton embodies this notion in her sweeping works of art that bring all the senses together. 

She uses her hands to create installations that are both visually astounding and surprisingly intimate, and meet a longing many of us share, as she puts it, to be alone together.

https://onbeing.org/programs/ann-hamilton-making-and-the-spaces-we-share/ 

Embodied Knowledge.

Spatial Agency : Organism/Person/Environment

The body and space are reflexive and interdependent.

Movement and tactility in photography/representations

Merleau-Ponty on the intertwining of vision and movement, and that tactility in photography depends on the skin rather than the eye.

The origin point of the practice is the body, and of the works produced

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The origin point of the practice is the body, and of the works produced.

Place understood as a site, physical but also overcoded by a conceptual by a conceptual intension, activated by and with the performative body of the artist in his/her spatial practice.

Her stillness disrupts an impression of her active presence

About expectations, disruptions and engagements with the built environment.

Body as a vector of thought through movement, organism/person/environment.

The body of the woman and the body of the camera are each partially exposed, partially revealed, and both are wholly connected to one another.

The uncanny effects are produced through these blurred distinctions, between reality and imagination, between body and architecture.

Body-Site

Flesh-Surfaces

Sensory-Engaging

Spatial-Narratives

Overlapping-Overcoding-Spatial Triads

Lived-Perceived-Conceived

Her body enacts a disjunction in time through the absence of her body and its subtle presence retained in movement.

Geometries of space of the body are made visible on the trace of a moment in real time and space.

Exploring the boundaries of her body and her spatial situation.

Yves Klein : Anthropometries

The painted ultramarine blue markings left on white canvas serve as indices made by the female painting performers and should act as timestamps of the work that was done by the female performers. Georganne Fronimos Boardman, 2017.

The Careful Crafting of a Utopia

Yves Klein and the Anthropometric Event of March 9, 1960.

Sarah M. Bartlett, 2016.

Serial Practices/Repetition and the production of thematically grouped images.

Acts of premeditated patterns and rituals.

Bodies and their performativity in the inspiration of the embodied moment in which they occurred/emerged. 

 

Brian Clarke : Silence and Tumult.

Martin Harrison.

The dynamism and the kinetic quality of natural light is a fundamental component of his stained glass. 

Deeply saturated coloured glass pierces a predominately opaque lead field.

Study for Gothic Rose, white pencil and collage on paper 84x59cm, 2012.

The Gothic wheel window, Clarke has appropriated the window's pattern as a template for drawings, as a basis for linear extemporization, and now a lead framework into which he has introduced his glass. 

See also The Office of The Dead, 2008.

Glass screen executed in triple laminated float glass, within which the layers of blue, yellow and black vitreous paint translate the dot screen into a kind of stained-glass pointillism.

Study in Grisaille II, ceramic glazes on glass, 208x380cm, 2002.

Quotidian Symbols

Toy Aeroplanes

Lightbulbs

Graphic Symbols

The Cross

The Fleur-de-Lys

Brian Clarke : Nerves of Ecstasy

Robert C. Morgan.

As the Symbolist poet Stephane Mallarme once endeavoured to explain, an artist's role is not merely to define his work, but to suggest what art might become.

Clarke's insight is less about his enterprise of being than a way of working according to a vision that requires ultimate attention to material, situation, and intuitive principles that exceed the limitations of what he already knows. Therefore, the insight is to recognize and then realize art as a formative structure, as a way of revealing space through hidden sources of line and light and through a rabid contemplation of time. 

Form, in the artistry of Brian Clarke, resists definition as it moves perpetually in the direction of a metaphor. Less through measurement or explanation, his objects, shapes, and figures move through space and time, often culminating in his architectural projects as a pulsating array of vivid colours and miraculous light.

He continues his studio practice on a daily basis, traditionally, he paints concrete images in which he juxtaposes delicate calligraphic tendrils in relation to his definitive grid-blocks.

As Clarke continues to move beyond a purely isolationist concept of art into a clear and synthetic understanding of structural relationships, his technical mastery of various densities and applications of linear and translucent imagery have augmented in scope.

The vaporous forms of the infinitely mutable cloud motif.

Fog, mist, and clouds became potent and perpetual metaphors.

Whether his works are destined to exist in two or three dimensions or in a linear or concrete form, Clarke's visual syntax engages our perceptions quickly before moving to the mind's eye. At this neurological junction, they may begin to vibrate and transform the way we see and envision the reality of our everyday world.

Poetics of Space : Gaston Bachelard "The unconscious cannot be civilized"

The Poetics of Space : The house, from cellar to garret. The significance of the hut.

"He will revive the primitivity and the specificity of the fears. In our civilization, which has the same light everywhere, and puts electricity in its cellars, we no longer go to the cellar carrying a candle. But the unconscious cannot be civilized. It takes a candle when it goes to the cellar."

Gaston Bachelard.

Reading Into the Visual : Exploratory Images

Prints From Secrets and Ambiguity

Is there still an aesthetic illusion? And if not, a path to an “aesthetic” illusion, the radical illusion of secret, seduction and magic? Is there still, on the edges of hypervisibility, of virtuality, room for an image?

— Jean Baudrillard, The Conspiracy of Art, 2005

Jana Sterbak

Remote Control 1989

A heuristic technique (/hjᵿˈrɪstᵻk/; Ancient Greek: εὑρίσκω, "find" or "discover"), often called simply a heuristic, is any approach to problem solving, learning, or discovery that employs a practical method not guaranteed to be optimal or perfect, but sufficient for the immediate goals.

A Hut of One's Own, Ann Cline

Texts,Annotations, Foundations, Pathways, Corridors, Bookmarks, Walking, Thinking, Ramble, Cross Country, Disciplines, 

Intermezzo : Nomadic Photographic Assemblage

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a thousand plateaus

Deleuze, Guattari

Assemblage

Becoming

Body Without Organs

Nomad

Rhizome

Smooth Space

State

War Machine

The Uberficiation of the University

BY MARK CARRIGAN ON NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The Sharing Economy

Platform Capitalism

Uber.edu

The Reputation Economy

The Microentrepreneur of the Self

The Para-academic

The Artrepreneur

Affirmative Disruption

Interior : Gridshell

Singleton, West Sussex

Covehithe : Walking/Thinking/Physical Entanglements in the Landscape

Walking into Emergent Landscapes : Covehithe Beach

The OLD WAYS, a JOURNEY ON FOOT, Robert Macfarlane

“ Walking was a means of personal myth-making, but it also shaped his everyday longings:

 Edward Thomas not only thought on paths and of them, but also with them.”

“To Thomas, paths connected real places but they also led out-wards to metaphysics, backwards to history and inward to the self. These traverses- between the conceptual, the spectral and the personal-occur often without signage in his writing, and are among its most characteristic events. He imagined himself in topographical terms.”

Assemblage/Design/Collage

Wondrous : Light and Nowness