Studio Practices : Matter/Material/Making , thinking with flux and mutuality.

 

Reflective Journal : Diffusion/The Time Machine.

Reflective Journal : Diffusion/The Time Machine., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

DSC_5566 Thomas Ruff/Linnaeus Tripe, V&A London.

 

Spatial Collage

 

Collage/Assemblage : Architectural Blueprint and Historical Garment (detail/archive) Winchester 2011

The Unfolded Garment

Embracing Subjectivity

Pierced Assemblage on Photogram

What is Philosophy?

Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari

Their book is a profound and careful interrogation of what it might mean to be a 'friend of wisdom', but it is also a devastating attack on the sterility of what has become, when 'the only events are exhibitions and the only concepts are products which can be sold'. Philosophy, they insist, is not contemplation, reflection or communication, but the creation of concepts

Assemblage/Garden Design : Architectural Plan/Victorian Corset

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

Reflective Journal : Diffusion/Spatial Intelligence/Between Figure and Ground

Reflective Journal : Diffusion/The Time Machine. Borderline Projects/Strange Attractors.

rhythmanalysis : Space, Time and Everyday Life.
Lefebvre

Jannis Kounellis
Carlo Scarpa

"Translates the painterly relationship of figure and ground into the space of real situations"
The Visual Poetics of Jannis Kounellis, Suzanne Cotter and Andrew Nairne.
Modern Art Oxford, 2004-2005.

Spatial Intelligence
New Futures for Architecture
Leon van Schaik

Archaeological Site, Morn Hill, Winchester.



Psychogeography is an approach to geography that emphasizes playfulness and "drifting" around urban environments. It has links to the Situationist International. Psychogeography was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals."^[1]Another definition is "a whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities... just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape."^[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography

Seed Dispersal : Tidbury Ring/Indexical experimentation in photography

Mute utterences, air within the photographic experience

The Ceramic Process : Aesthetics/Objects hollowed out from within

Slab Built Ceramics
Rutile and Yellow Ochre  

Reduction Stoneware.

On Building/Making
The Painter Monk
Cinema
Collage/Assemblage
Tarkovsky, Andrey Rublyoz

Beach Firing :  St Ninian's Scotland

Heat Work : The Ceramic Process

Beach Birth : Objects/Appearances hollowed out from within

Beach Chamber (An Object is Born)
Causality/The Pot, its appearance and it essence

The Arts : The inherent finality of the human condition is concisely and eloquently measured and mapped.

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Russell Moreton  Spatial Practices MA, UCA Canterbury.

Visual artist who currently uses simple descriptive gestures and processes drawn directly from the human body. His practice continues to explore issues around "Spatiality" and the "Postmodern Human Condition." The use of site specificity and materials "at hand" are employed to further underpin the practitioners sense of place, memory and dwelling. His descriptive working narratives are in effect physical working ideas, spatial  entanglements between the relations of  life and art.  

Drawing.

Installation and Working Sites

Architectural Glass and Ceramics

Liquid Light and Pinhole Photography

OUTLINE

Drawings by sculptors that place the relationship of the line derived from the body on the same field as material/media residues. These configurations give rise to conceptual associations and meanings. This contemporary approach is in evidence in a number of artists work where the per formative aspects of drawing are the key issue. To put it simply there is a growing awareness of the gesture of drawing as the work, and not just simply the representational merit of recognition that has previous acquainted skill and draughtsmanship. I am talking about the authentic gesture of inscription, the combination of both the trait and trace that the trait has circumscribed. This almost primal visual rendering from a sensation of blindness is captured succinctly in the myth of butades, or as it has come to be known "the birth/origin of painting” This myth preserved through the device of its very nature contains an irony trapped, almost withheld until the contemporarily of its content could be recognized. It is my aim to expand on these issues using the situation of my own practice as a bridge to attempt to illustrate some of the complexities unearthed.

Analysis of a drawing.

Crafting the mind : Human Inhumation/Containment

Julian Stair

Quietus/The Body Politic

Morality

Jonathan Sacks

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

THE PHYSICAL

THE EMOTIONAL

THE CONCEPTUAL

First Intension (noun) Medicine the healing of a wound by natural contact of the parts involved.

Fecundity, Fertility, Creativity, Inventiveness, Fruitfulness, Productiveness. What response within ones subjectivity created the desire and its necessity to be

embodied, to be brought into the realm of things? CREATIVE POST-MORTEM 19.08.2010.

Outline of a female body on light-weight Chinese paper, life size, laid out as if in the process of making passage through a fluid. The body stance seems tensioned with arms outstretched and together above the head, as is it is being propelled, or conversely the feet together might signify the body is sinking into a space occupied by a fluid. The body seems to be caught in some sort of stasis, between sliding back or diving head first. This outline has been in places in filled with a blue photographic material ( cyanotype).This material that displays a floral print caused by the displacement and actuality of seed heads having been placed directly in contact with the paper. This floral marking occupies only part of the territory which was once occupied by the body. There is evidence that this fluid substance (blueprinting of a fecundity) has transgressed, seeped through the boundaries of the traced form. It has done so through the cyanotypes fluidity and the absorbency inherent in the structure of the paper. Within the territory of the body, there are spaces void of the cyanotype material, these appear as barren areas, unfertile yet they seem to suggest an infinite space which gives the cyanotype surface its ability to both record an actuality and suspended it. This appears to question the spatio-temporal aspect of the relations between the application of the fluid and the drawing of the trace. What is apparent is that they have become superimposed and strangely contingent. There exists a sense of transition between fluidity of the cyanotype and the fixed “registration” of the hand drawn trace this creates different senses of temporalities on the same surface. The residues left over from the cyanotype process are still clearly visible, channeled into a flow which is delivered to a reservoir at the foot of the trace. The outline in what appears to be black marker pen preserves a permanence against this flow. This same marked permanence records an intervention of two back slashes which tags a closure of performance of the trace with a date simply stated across the foot. One might be tempted to consider if this marking and its proximity might have associations that reference the labelling of the mortuary corpse. The inclusion of this precise date marking, renders other material traces some sort empirical touchstone, an observation point clearly defined from which to see other phenomena present. This observational mode of inquiry is perhaps promoted by what appear to be astronomical markings that are only "‘present” within the territory of the body, curiously they appear to have been inscribed from the reverse side of the paper. They appear akin to body markings, tattoos or some other form of writing information on the body. These marks suggest some sort of cartography which can only be read by others, this information is clearly “hosted” for the benefit of others, a message that might contain an augury. The host body might be a vessel for these speculations, but it is clearly not their author in fact the astronomical details place their own authorship right through the vessel of this un-gendered female form. Given that the astronomical markings have been assigned to a human form, a form of mobility the knowledge of these marks therefore exceeds the temporality of the host form, in the literal sense this is already confirmed by an existence only recorded by its trace, its absent presence. This terrestrial being with its absent presence marked and dated is further appropriated into a territory containing celestial mappings and traces from its own host planet. The inherent theme of fecundity and fragility supported by the inherent finality of the human condition is concisely and eloquently measured and mapped. Like a shroud this work is delivered to reaffirm the body as a site.

There is no authority in the gesture, it is an act of reassurance, he is fixing reality. James Salter

The Human Body : Speculative Fields/Spatial Practices

Site Drawings, undoing Place
Body, Ideologies, Space.

Spatial Practices : Cyanotype Process

Reorganizing structure by drawing/moving through it

 

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

Sculpting in Time/Other Worlds : Introduction to Tarkovsky's Solaris by Will Self