Bringing back vibrant matter into a world cluttered by images that are standing in for the redundancy of that experiential experience.
Research as a discursive activity gathering new forms of expression. Duration, Steven Holl
Building/Uncertainties into the explorations of making. Rem Koolhaas.
REVIEW into INTERIORS MA UCA 2013-15 Research into new forms of translation/transmission
MAKING vibrant gaps/assemblages between the texts/images/objects and everyday things LANDSCAPES OF AFFECTIVE AESTHETIC ATTRACTION
MATERIALS THEMSELVES become the TOOLS of PERCEPTION
Enchantment from the potential of things.
The Fabric of thoughts
The invisible within the visible (energy,magic,causality)
RELATEDNESS, connected to the Place and Function of Things within a Field.
Texts, form their own contexts/reflexivity, breaking down phenomena into meaning, conclusions and critique, they render phenomena and its psychic information redundant.
We think we know how we should feel sociologically, yet in doing so we deny ourselves the direct affectiveness of people and objects that can provide different perceptual relationships.
EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE=ECOLOGY Lygia Clark : A Space open to time. Cornelia H. Butler
The World is a Collage
Collage and montage are quintessential techniques in modem and contemporary art and filmmaking. Collage combines pictorial motifs and fragments from disconnected origins into a new synthetic entity which casts new roles and meanings to the parts. It suggests new narratives, dialogues, juxtapositions and temporal durations. Its elements lead double-lives; the collaged ingredients are suspended between their originary essences and the new roles assigned to them by the poetic ensemble.
Juhani Pallasmaa
Hapticity and Time
Notes on a fragile Architecture
The Perception of the Environment Essay in Livelihood, dwelling and skill Tim Ingold
See Yourself Sensing Redefining Human Perception Madeline Schwartzman
STILLNESS IN A MOBILE WORLD Bissell, Fuller
ECOLOGICAL approaches/affordances to aesthetic perception ART and AESTHETIC PATTERNS : into an ecology of mind.
Going beyond what it may represent into the important psychic information that it contains. Camouflage is addressed, perhaps, less to architecture itself than to the subjective processes by which
human beings experience architecture. Illustrated by the photographic practice of Francesca Woodman, we see her seemingly absorbed by her environment in way that shows a desire to both identify with, and become part of her surroundings.
A desire/transgression met and mediated through a certain sensitivity and openness to the environment, fostering a sense of connectivity between human beings and their environment.
Neil Leach
EXISTENCE, SPACE and ARCHITECTURE Christian Norberg-Schulz
A child 'concretizes' its existential space.
Developing the idea that architectural space may be understood as a concretization of environmental schemata or images, which form a necessary part of man's general orientation or 'being in the world.'
SUBSTANCES guide the kinds of practical actions that the organism senses from elements of the environment, creating affordances/utilities for the human body.
SURFACES separate substances from medium, the wall and roof of my house afford comfort by separating me from water and too much air.
AFFORDANCES as aesthetic sensations determined both by the environment and qualities we impose through observation, sensation and perception.
Without arousal of perception, no aesthetic experience is possible. The rational organization of society has its own Aesthetic Attraction
Symmetrical Patteming/redundancy : provides for the observing mind a maximum of insight with a minimum of intellectual effort.
Colour Light Time
Quintessentially relational phenomena in which location, background, density will provide for different perceptual relations.
Bringing back vibrant matter into a world cluttered by images that are standing in for the redundancy of that experiential experience.
WORKING TEXT: 16/May/2020 The R Value in Academia
Reading/Reflexivity/Research with precision and indeterminacy
Research Material : Studio/Archive 2004-2020
The Language of Specitivity/Places of Inquiry Extradisciplinary Investigations
Social Utilities/Contemporary Art Practices imported from Political Philosophy
The return of limited and ancillary projects where the human being is the fulcrum and the fire of research in replacement of the medium and the instrument.
A whole range of materials and topics that do not fit, that can create an eclectic synthesis of knowledge fields.
Arte Povera, an aesthetic-philosophical movement, artists that chose to live with direct experience and feel the necessity of leaving intact the value of the existence of things. An art that asks only for the essential information, that refuses the dialogue with the social and cultural system, and aspires to present itself as something sudden and unforeseen.
Germano Celant 1940-2020
Developing discursive reading
WORKING DOCUMENT/LANDSCAPE LANDSCAPES/Thinking Spaces
Concepts of space-time/Ecologies, embodiments through identity, individuality and environments. Our universe is evolving in time as our views are evolving
RIVERS/Eddies and husbandry
(in/with the phenomena of water, thinking with the fish in mind)
Research as a discursive activity gathering new forms of expression. Duration, Steven Holl
Time is only understood in relation to a process or a phenomenon.
The duration of human beings alive in one time and place is a relational notion.
The time of one's being is provisional; it is a circumstance with an adopted aim for the time being. SPACE-and ARCHITECTURE-exceeds the provisional
Architecture/Built Environments Ecology/Political Philosophy
Spatial Practice, Culture, Creativity and Environment
Diffractive erotics of the body in her speculative post studio practice
Asperities of flesh, dirt and the built environment
Neil Leach, Camouflage, F Woodman
The Enchantment of Modem Life.
Attachments, Crossing and Ethics
The performativity of social representations
When I gather together the animals, arguments, molecules, suggestions, forces, interpretations, sounds, people, and images of this study, one theme emerges. The modern story of disenchantment leaves out important things, and it neglects crucial sources of ethical generosity in doing so. Without modes of enchantment, we might not have the energy and inspiration to enact ecological projects, or to contest ugly and unjust modes of commercialization, or to respond generously to humans and nonhumans that challenge our settled identities. These enchantments are already in and around us.
Jane Bennett
Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise
Jackie Leven, The Dent In The Fender And The Wheel Of Fate David Childers, Heart In My Soul
Spatial Practice Interior Design
Building a precision/working praxis that is both aesthetic and technical that can give an intimate understanding of the material and its situation.
Subjectivities interwoven through light and media Asperities of fabric and texture : White Collaged Postcards
CREATING AN ANTHROPOLOGY TOR BEING IN THE LANDSCAPE DEVELOPING MATTER AND DESIRE IN ART BASED ACTIVITIES
WORKING NOTES, 24 October 2018
SETTING UP THE CRITICAL DISTANCE / DISCURSIVE FIELDS OF ANALYSIS MEASURING AFFECT
PERFORMATIVITY ITS EXPERIENTIAL QUALITIES/PSYCHIC IMPACT RESEARCH IN LANDSCAPE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN Visiting the Archive : Exploratory Workshop
September 1, 2018. W&BA Harleston
CREATING THE FEEDBACK LOOP
BLURRING THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN PARTICAPANTS AND ARTISTS RADICAL INTERVENTIONS INTO THE EVERYDAY
Walking and Making with Clay, Brockwood, Speculative Learning Program
' the clay itself seemed to absorb them into a wandering relation with the landscape' A Field Guide To Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit.
In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty.
Tracks Across The Landscape
Setting up a critical spatial practice within the walking landscape of the everyday. Edward Thomas, Paths
John Piper, Covehithe, South Bank Show, painting/drawing both on site and in the studio.
Watts Gallery, analysis and audit of activities from which to develop visitor programs and the experiential circulation of those who visit.
Melancholy and The Landscape, Jacky Bowring.
Locating Sadness, Memory and Reflection in the Landscape. Investigation into the creative membership and activities of W&BA.
Sculpture Trail, Curatorial Strategies/Market/Audiences
From newsletter to art themed walks, Historic Culture/Landscape and Tourism Plotting points of social interactions, asking Why Here, Why Not There?
What directs events, governs outcomes? Success and failures?
Management and event led, members as audience? MA Arts Management
New Cultural Diversities
10 Days at the Laundry, Winchester 2009.
Group of creatives based in and around Winchester School of Art, use of fallow site in which to respond and to create for 10 days a contemporary arts festival. This original event 'fused' new creative partnerships that went on to produce other groups and exhibitions. The follow-up event 10 Days in the City, was funded, had more prestigious venues, but lacked the cohesion and community of the first site.
Supplementary content, resources, dossier outlining the inquiry of which the work is a part. MOVING THE CULTURE
DISCURSIVE FIELDS FOR NEW TYPOLOGIES/OPERATIONS AND TACTICS CONCRETE POETRIES
LOWER GREEN, NORWICH
' At the surface, the gorgeous materiality of Okon's work is seductive but her intention to breach superficial readings is much more serious. This conjugation of material is also a conjuration, an earnest attempt to attempt to imagine and materialise new possible realities.'
Matter and Desire, An Erotic Ecology, Andreas Weber.
SITE SPECIFIC EMBODIMENT, working, making, discovering. Post Studio Practices, Daniel Buren. Deep Arts Ecology Investment and Nurturing, 'it always begins with the art, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
The heavy, awkward investment of actually getting people to 'place' to participate is difficult. New technologies could offer solutions that could in turn promote innovative creative ecologies.
NEW TOPOLOGIES FOR BEING IN THE LANDSCAPE NETWORKS, MESHES, NODES, CONNECTIONS
Becoming embodied within the making of the work, within an intimate dwelling place. Strange Tools, Art and Human Nature, Alva Noe.
Crafted Scenography,
Exhibition,
Visual Art, Tacita Dean
Shadowcatchers
OUTPOST
STUDIO as a discursive site for un-doing and re-making relations/aesthetics between objects/the social/the everyday.
STUDIO ANALYSIS 2018-2020 21 September 2018-19 August 2020
Art School Spaces Outpost Studio Spaces Urban Fallow Institutional Buildings
Open Plan Office Spaces
Studio 3.16, Central Norwich, nearby parking, Floor area/footprint 5.0mx5.0m, wall spaces 2x2.4mx5.0m, well lit, open plan, large making table 1.2mx2.4m. Electricity, small heater, lighting, running water WC, access 24/7.
Projects/Contexts bought into the studio space
Drawings/Southampton roof rubbing, drawings/art works as sociological shelters/habitats Immaterial Paintings/Cyanotype, layered papers
Raveningham sculpture elements from intervention Cley, sketch books and paintings
Re-presentation of drawings/collages with new research material/contexts
Paintings displayed with large analogue phonographic images and collages Architectural concerns, coloured glass, aesthetic surfaces, paintings with raw materials Installation of research bookcases as diffractive elements/spatial practice within the studio White paintings, used layers of paper texts, meshes and cloth
Ceramic objects on field paintings/grounds
Research material, folders, wrapped ceramics with fabric, yellow ochre on paper
Canvas painting, inclusions, shells/stones, cyanotype/yellow ochre, gesso/white paint, pierced
STUDIO WORKS
Paper/canvas paintings 1.5mx2.4m Canvas re Raveningham Shelter, 2.4mx2.4m
Spray paint, large floor works left undisturbed during making Future proposals Cley 2021, Artpocket activities, Project Space,
WORKING NOTES
OUTPOST 12/09/2019
A Philosophy of Solitude
Hand Bookbinding
Lead/Waxed Paper
Art puts US on Display
Strange Tools
Art and Human Nature
The Politics of Things
The properties of Light
Fred Sandback/Luis Barragin
On Pictures and the Words that Fail Them Melancholy and the Landscape Process-Relational Philosophy
Jannis Kounellis
Christopher Wilmarth
The Ground of The Image
Sally Mann, The Flesh and The Spirit
The Eyes Of the Skin
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