Hungate
Work In Progress
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On Constructing Creativity.
Wondrous Engagements.
Light/Substance/Ritual/Memory/Display
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WATER
Conduits of inquiry into the sacred and the secular, the spirit and the body.
Cleansing Vessels.
Piscina/Niche/Wall/Building
Art/Archaeology
Ritual/Display
Corporeal/Spiritual
Beuys, was involved in questions of form, material processes and social sculpture, he believed that art and the insight gained through art becomes a formative influence on life. He wanted a situation where life and art become one. Academicians sense that in this ideal state, an Academy would be superfluous.
Raw materials/substances/tools all used as symbols with their own unique properties and qualities.
Beuys brought things into forms, in which the material and the forms are really in accord with each other, and are satisfied and want to keep on living. He was constantly moving material between two opposed poles, undetermined chaos (a blob of melted fat) and determined order (a box of things).
Selected Research.
Being mindful that material can lead the way.
Beuys/Cragg on matter and materials beyond the hylomorphic model.
Gaston Bachelard, on intimate, watery spaces and the imagination.
Poetics Of Space.
Juhani Pallasmaa, on reading and experiencing architectural spaces at The Hungate.
The Eyes Of The Skin, Architecture And The Senses.
Proposals into working practice/ideas.
Returning to direct site based experiential drawings/templates/mappings/rubbings.
Fluidity between surfaces and things, of dampness, stains and porous plaster.
The molecular interstitial spaces of light, air and water.
Sacred water washing the soul (the font), secular water washing the body (the bath)
Bonnard, domicile paintings of body,water and the baptism of light.
Displacement of things (body/rituals) in vessels of water (bath/font).
The architectural interior, a historical place of shelter for beliefs.
The membrane, screen, between the cleansing nakedness of water.
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