Thursday 15 September 2022

 Outpost 150922






Drawing Space.

The Material Discursive. 


Figurative Configurations/Bodies and Landscapes.

Jenny Saville.


Intimate Drawings

Wall Scratchings

Situatedness of intra-activities.

A matrix and an archive.


It was the crucible of his art, and one of the most hauntingly eloquent spaces an artist has ever surrounded himself with.

In Giacometti's Studio.


The hermit's cave.

The alchemist's cell.

The chemist's laboratory.


Correlations do not become real, relational until the signals arrive.


Becoming Real.

The Exchange of Signals.

Framing Entanglements.

The Concretization of the Colour.


Nothing travels instantaneously and an exchange of signals is an interaction, where new elements of reality come about.


The joint properties of two objects exist only in relation to a third.


Everything that manifests itself does so in relation to something, a correlation between two objects is a property of the two objects and like all properties it exists it exists, is existential only in relation to a further third object.


Entanglement is not a dance for two partners, it is a dance for three.


Entanglement is none other than the external perspective on the very relations that weave reality.


The manifestation of one object to another in the course of an interaction in which properties of the object become actual.


Working notes/fragments.

Helgoland, Carlo Rovelli.


Lead label reads/stamped with “dwelling is always dwelling in nearness, Heidegger”.


Counterpoints/Contrapuntal Movements. 


ENMESHED EXPERIENCES

WORKING WITH DOUBT

DURATION

THE FLUX OF A VECTOR FIELD


PARALLAX.


The existence/trace/invisibility/of a third object that interacts with both the systems is necessary to give reality to the correlations.


Resultants that incorporate the friction/asperities of their trajectories through medium/material.


Building as a body, a battleground of invisible forces. 

The spine is the central elevator. The structure is a tube of concrete covered with insulation and tarred black wood boards.


Steven Holl.

Knut Hamsun Museum, Hamarey, Norway. 1996


Monumental sculptures take the form of vast, spectral structures built from corroded, sinewy metals and disintegrating found objects.


He seeks inspiration from sources that speak to the expansive, cyclical nature of the universe. 

Kiefer looks to Norse mythology, Hebrew folklore, alchemy and theoretical physics to build dense imagery that is too often interpreted as simply apocalyptic.

While some might see wastelands and abject destruction, Kiefer sees vitality and resurrection. This attitude extends to the physical properties of his paintings and sculptures.

He embraces the ravages of time, while others might strive to suspend it in an effort to preserve a moment of imperceptible genius. Instead, his art buckles and shifts, constantly evolving and reforming under the burden of its own existence.


Artists on art, Holly Black. 2021





Sky Correlations

Cloud Space.

Particle Speculations

Seed Dispersal

Panspermia 

Granular Gardens

Third Spaces

Spatial Vectors/Constellations.



Observational Blueprints/Apparatuses.


Pierced Constellations.

Vectors for Entanglements.

Spatial Agency.

Sunlight Circulations.

Daylight Drawings/New Worlds.



The Spab Magazine

Autumn 2022.


The Living and the Dead, 2017-18.


I am not interested in conservation.

If something falls down, it has meaning.

Anselm Kiefer.


Organism, Person, Environment.

Bioscleave, Architectural Body, Gins, Arakawa.

Time as experienced duration is relative to an individual and to a space.


Constantin Brancusi's studio and Endless Column, fabricated as a timepiece, where the finite time of place and culture is counterposed to infinity.


Visual substance, causal doing, investigating, agency, matter, phenomena, material discursive, iterative, creative, apparatuses, intra-activity, performativity, bodies that matter, 


Monday 5 September 2022

Visual Substance : Inter-Subjective Encounters











 Outpost 090222


Architectural Body/Procedural Architecture

Organism/Person/Environment

Earth, House, Hold, Dwelling Places.


Unlike the sense of sight or hearing, only the sense of touch can discern space and time at once.


The skin as the harbourer of a subjects sense of touch.

Skin/Subjectivity becomes as flesh a connective tissue which both unites and divides.


The skin can judge time less well than the ear, and space less well than the eye, but it is skin alone that combines the spatial and temporal dimensions.

Maternal Skin/Subject Formation, Anzieu.



A Field in England : On the nature of Photography.

Between Art and Information.

Brought to Light : Photography and the Invisible.

The Visible/Invisibility between the potential of  things.


The Photograph and The Lacanian Mirror.

In which identity is constantly shored up and broken down, but also as a persistent space invested with the paradoxical qualities of intimacy and alienation, of proximity and utter detachment all through which an offer of an encounter is held out in invitation.


Inter-Subjective Encounters, a space in which the subjectivities of the artist and the spectator might meet and mingle.


The skin is the surface through which self and other are mediated.


The mutuality of touch itself is echoed by the skins structure, it both touches and is touched and this duality is reflected in the way the skins surface is exposed to the outside world, whilst also protecting and containing the unseen interiority of the body.

Harriet Katherine Riches, 2004.


Light and Spaces of Intersubjectivity.

Tactile Light.


The photograph holds out the promise of an encounter through its carnal medium.


For Riches, the self-representational photograph becomes a kind of veil or mask, a displaced surface whose skin-like relationship to the subject is always suspended, and perpetually deferred. It frames a space of contact and a fantasy of union with the original subject, the photograph's skin-like quality also enables it to be imagined as an inter-subjective space of exchange.



Light creates the spatiality/transitions that passes beyond subject/object relationships.


Skin/Surface/Subjectivity : Movements in thinking through Spatial Agency


Skin becomes a site of symbolic acts of aggression/gesture.

Surfaces of suggested pain/experience through which subjectivity is created.


Conduits of colour specificities and counterpoints

Relationscapes : Movements, created through colour temperature and spatial contact.


The phenomena of things being brought into perception/focus.


Through a body every colour creates movement and has its own/creates its own perspective/its mapping/layering/extension of spatial temporal material.


Analogies/Difference : Spaces created through mimesis,wavelengths intermingling with the spatial.



Glass/Lead/Filtered Light.

Glass Slide/Subjectivities brought into the light



Colour Subjectivities, the appearance/experience of mattering material.

Friday 2 September 2022

Some approaches and interpretations of phenomenology in architecture.

 Outpost 020922


Perceptual Experience.


On The Nature of Things.


The notion of specific agential intra-actions in architectural practice.







Thingification, the turning of relations into things,  entities, relata, all infects much of the way we understand the world and our relationship to it.


Karen Barad sees reality composed of intra-acting elements which together make up a phenomena.


Making Use of Useful Correlations/Meaningful Information.


The actor of this process is not a subject distinct from phenomenal reality outside it, nor any transcendent point of view, rather it is a portion of that reality itself.


Our discourse on reality is itself part of that reality.


The radical questioning of our mental maps of reality.


Lines of thought that take inspiration from, or rooted in quantum physics.


Karen Barad's utilization of the ideas of Niels Bohr.


Physics seemed to me the place where the weave between the structure of reality and the structure of thought was closest, the place where this intertwinement was subject to the incandescent test of continuous evolution.

Helgoland.

Carlo Rovelli.


In Phenomenology of Perception, Merleau-Ponty explores being as it resides in the perceptual situatedness of the body-subject into the world.


When the body-subject gains access into the world through perception, the world becomes what we perceive.


Perception is considered as the fundamental act that enables human beings to inhabit space and time.


Reality is not composed of things in themselves or things behind phenomena, 

but things in phenomena. 


For Steven Holl, the intertwining of idea and phenomena occurs with the realization of a building as the means for materialization of the idea-force.


For Merleau-Ponty idea is the invisible of this world which inhabits this world, sustains it and renders it visible.


Holl is interested in the phenomenal nature of the idea, in his search for connecting the phenomenal properties with conceptual strategy.


According to Bohr, the primary epistemological unit is not independent objects with inherent boundaries and properties but rather phenomena.


Phenomena are the ontological inseparability of agentially intra-acting components.


Phenomena are produced through agential intra-actions of multiple apparatuses of bodily production.


Things in phenomena/agential intra action


Steven Holl points out a path of passage in architecture that leads from the abstract to the concrete, the unformed to the formed. In this architectural journey the idea-force, phenomenal properties and the site-force interact with each other. This interaction begins with the formation of an abstract idea, the formation of a concept out of this idea and its transformation into a material, a spatial and formal reality on a physical site.




The Visible and The Invisible.

Phenomenology of Perception.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty.


Posthumanist Performativity.

Towards an understanding of how matter comes to matter.

Karen Barad.



A Living Room For The City : V&A Dundee.

Kengo Kuma, Maurizio Mucciola.


Parallax

Some approaches and interpretations of phenomenology in architecture.

Steven Holl.