Monday, 27 May 2024

Everyday Enchantments : Playing with Constructed Situations

Research Collage, Reading Rooms/Waverley Abbey

Cyanotype, blueprint  with notes/formulae/string on paper

Reading Rooms : Waverley Project

The Ruin/Paper Cups

Lead,photographic ( pinhole) and inkjet visual material from flickr stream, fixing tapes, cyanotype on tracing paper,pierced and re-positioned elements on paper.

Drawing on the snow, a field in Hampshire.
Enchantments between materials, snow and paper.

MAPPING : Ritual, fire and stone : Human Filament
Astronomical data with outline of human form,candles,string and stones on paper.150cm x 240cm

Working Practices
Drawing.
Installation and Working Sites
Architectural Glass and Ceramics
Liquid Light and Pinhole Photography




















Monday, 20 May 2024

Giving Sensations Place/Site/Raveningham Sculpture Trail : Subjective/Hypothesis/Bricolage/Tectonics/Working Scripts/Making Camps.

 

IMMATERIAL ARCHITECTURES MAKING IN THE LANDSCAPE.

RAVENINGHAM SCULPTURE TRAIL 2018/2020

STIMULATING TENSIONS.

BRICOLAGE / HEURISTIC PRACTICE, Using things at hand, temporal, self constructions, becomings, mind forming explorations.


Mediating/Architecting the experience of LANDSCAPE.

The building as nothing more than an exposition of itself.

Georg Simmel, text Frames, Handles, Landscapes and the aesthetic ecology of things.


A subjective hypothesis, a drawing developed into an objectivity for experience/learning.

SITE, the undoing of PLACE.




The House-sheds : Camping

There's more truth about a camp than a house. Planning laws need not worry the improvising builder because temporary structures are more beautiful anyway, and you don't need permission for them. There's more truth about a camp because that is the position we are in. The house represents what we ourselves would like to be on earth: permanent, rooted, here for eternity. But a camp represents the true reality of things: we're just passing through.

Roger Deakin

WILDWOOD

A Journey Through Trees



Art Practice as a Speculative Spatial Practice.

A reflective building is an echo not a statement.

Haptic devices/seating/dwelling in the landscapes of the mind. Landscape assemblages and the significance of solitude.



The immensity/intimacy and its immediacy to the imagination. Immensity is within ourselves. Gaston Bachelard

The site a Raveningham offers the spatial practice of a social event and the opportunity to playfully engage with architectural forms, fine art surfaces and textures.

The sensing space, a sculptural assemblage created at Raveningham is an inquiry into 'making' and 'reflexivity' amongst a social landscape.



SENSING AND SPATIAL PRACTICE.

Creating a new viewer, who has to look in two self contradictory/self annihilating directions at once. Darkest Spaces of Our Times, Therese Oulton, Jacqueline Rose.



CONTEMPORARY ART AND ANTHROPOLOGY : SPATIAL PRACTICE.

Making Place/Tools, cognitive enactments/materials and performativity/wellbeing.

Sociological aspects of the Arts

Archaeology, Anthropology, Architecture, Art, Tim Ingold.



A FIELD GUIDE TO GETTING LOST : Rebecca Solnit 

Experiential anthropology / Walking as 'being/becoming in place' 

Sensate, Sensing Sensuality, Otherness.





WHITEBOARD : PAVILIONS/RAVENINGHAM

Art as Contemplative Practice : An Applied Praxis/Inquiry

Expressive Pathways/Building/Making as an extension to the Self/Selves In Response : To Place/Site and “Dwelling/Hut”

Subjective Hypothesis Bricolage/Tectonics/Making.







Poetic Abstractions/ Components, Elements

Physical Experience/Experiential Phenomena ( Light/Gravity/Air) Sculptural Assemblage, Building/Making an Exposition of Itself

Smithsons, The Parallel of Life/Art the everyday/quotidian Grounding/Earthing/Dwelling/Home : Reflexivity/Reflection/Reverberations

Knowing Through Making/ Embodying Insights, Tim Ingold

MAKING : Deliberation/Awareness : Constructed Situations/SURFACES and TEXTURES SENSING, Sensorium/Embodied Experience, Sensate, Intra/Intervention



PLACES that transform Chaos into Cosmos, Karsten Harries



PERCEPTUAL psychologist, J.J. Gibson departs from 'the classical approach to depth or space' in favour of an ECOLOGICAL approach to VISUAL SPACE PERCEPTION, which take SURFACES and TEXTURE as its starting point.



 



Socializing a Sculptural Practice, Jack Robins 2015

Strange Tools, Art and Human Nature, Alva Noe 2015

Visual Tool, Post Studio, Daniel Buren

INDEXICAL, Traits/Traces and subjective narratives Situational/Relational Aesthetics, Victor Burgin, Nicollas Bourriaud

Handmade, Repetition, Empirical, Experiences.

Metonymy, Cristina Iglesias ( Metonymic Thinking Processes)

Architecturally Speaking, Practices, praxis between art .architecture and the everyday. Visual Perceptions/ The Image

Surrealist Techniques, Collage, Photograms. Decalmania, Frottage. Assemblage, Brutalist/Modemity/Intervention

Minimalist/Drawing/Painting ARCHAEOLOGY : Mark Dion

Agency/Nature/Subject Matter. Collection of Finds, Metaphors/Interpretations for the lived experience. AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF LANDSCAPE :

Taskscapes/Relationscapes

Anarchism, everyday Aesthetics/The aesthetics of everyday LIVING Pragmatist Aesthetics/Interpretation of Concepts

Materiality, material makes more than one language possible, excess of material. LANDSCAPES for an excess of Interpretation/Politics

EXPLORING THE LANDSCAPE, through/with the CORPOREAL EXPERIENCE of OTHERS

A STRUCTURE INTERPOSED between the sunlight and the interior space it encloses. Poetic abstractions/Physical experience

Soft/Blurring boundaries between art and the everyday making/becoming REFLEXIVITY / TRANSLUCENCY surfaces into an architectural presence TEXTURES ILIMINALITY on the absence of material

STATIC ENVIRON I ANIMATED THROUGH THE BODY

THE ARCHITECTURAL SKIN / SURFACE. Blurring, revealing, masking, filtering, ARCHITECTURAL FEATURE / WALL / ARCH / PASSAGE /

VISUAL TOOL / POCHOIR, hand coloured through stencils

SCULPTURAL ASSEMBLAGES, towards Speculative Forms/Expression 

TECTONICS IN MAKING, and the tectonics of immateriality/traces hidden by building.

Concerned with bringing the material from its physical form into the meta-physical world.

PAVILION 

FUSELAGE


THE CAMP/HUT

represents the true reality of things, Deakin.


MOBILITY MOVEMENT

TEMPORAL CONSTRUCTED SPACE

A building component, scaffold, joists and fixings, a surface of absences and the movement of others come together.

MAKING, from form to programme.


WAVENEY VALLEY SCULPTURE TRAIL 2018 RAVENINGHAM

AUDIT OF NOTE FRAGMENTS 27 August 2018.


Archive as a generative form/membrane Tarlaton, mesh, paper, liquid light,

Presenting, Creating, Synergies, that further explore site embodiments. The Politics of Things

Diffractive Practices : Agential Cut, Barad, Learning Spaces, 

Brockwood Park School. Reimagining  Education 

In The Cave/Canvas of the Cave

ART. began with the questioning of the involuntary, trace of a human hand, an otherness. 

Moments, Nowness, The Instant, Actuality,

Habitus of Difference

Robert Mangold text on painting/drawing minimalist interrogation into the spaces around perception Minimalist Works / Working Processes represent fields of energy/causality within our experiential perceptions.

Drawing is the experience of seeing made visible/manifest Rhizomic feedback and flow, Deleuze

Research Horizons,

Culture drives growth, wellbeing, social enterprise and community

Lines of intervals, linerality, chains of codes, intersections, utilities, interventions Causality and Chance of ideas, creative acts, art,nature, becoming, the everyday,

Quotidian/Everyday Interests, Complexities of Contemporary Life. Ambients, Phenomenas, Objects, Subjectivities,

Everyday aesthetics, heuristic practice,

Photography, Social pathology of traces layered into ecologies (Anthropological localities of desire)

Photography, The Body, Life, Death, Flemish Painting, Vivitas, Domestic Life, Nature on reclaiming the void left by the death of the mind

Walking creates its own feedback loop, The Journey, The Return,

The specific, Here and Now

Psychogeography, Dossier, Forensic Study, Inquiry.

Spatial Abstractions : Reflexivity on Reflection. Embodiment on Experiential Subjectivity LANDSCAPES Constituted by creative practice

Walks as erasures, sedimentation, (Gardiner)

Getting Lost, Walking whilst deep in thought/embodiment in the environment 

Working Towards a Secular Retreat in the Landscape



Between PLACE and SITE.

Art Making  Agency/Spatial Agency.

Art Poverva, Materiality, Agency, Making, Nesting Building, 


NASCENT FINDINGS

Encoding DATA, LANGUAGE

Entanglements of Visual Data and Abstract Language 


CATHEDRALS OF INTELLIGENCE

The Urban Documentary,Text, Sebalt, 

The River : The Colour of Light

Albers/Colour Perceptions

Vernacular Architectures, Building/Making beyond the design

Footings, Voids, Roof Structures, Cavities, Between Walls.

Sensing Spaces in the very making of the building.

The Architectural plan/model and its proposal became the real virtual space for architectural energy and innovation.


TRANSACTIVE MEMORY Texts, Contents, Particulars, Process,

Working through ideas with things/devices/apparatuses Cognitive Landscapes /Relationalities ? Possible Worlds Subsumed by the causality of relationships/culture

Mies van der Rohe 

The Art of Sculpture

Moholy Nagy 

The New Vision Abstract of an Artist

Light brings the moment in time to us

Presence, Praesentia, exactitude of light on place and time.


LAND, LANDSCAPE, CLAY

Pot, Shard, Remnant, Culture, Jug, Dominion/Grounded Temporal/Spatial Perspectives

Light/Dark Room : Towards a new Interior Experimental Vision : Research Collage

Aesthetics of the Everyday Creative, Human Praxis





Supportive Material/Texts/Cyanotype Drawings from found objects


SITE / COLLAGE COMPONENTS working/walking, developing a creative spatial syntax  

AFFECT

SENSATION / CAUSALITY LIVING

THINKING LOOKING


DRAWING and THE LAW OF STRATIFICATION, the inevitable results of the working of GRAVITY STRATIFICATION OF RECOLLECTION / MEMORY OF THE WORLD. 

A Land, J Hawkes.


FACTORING THE TACTILE CONDITIONS OF THE REAL WORLD into perceptual awareness. 


PERCEPTUAL psychologist, J.J. Gibson departs from 'the classical approach to depth or space' in favour of an ECOLOGICAL approach to VISUAL SPACE PERCEPTION, which take SURFACES and TEXTURE as its starting point.



COLOUR AS CONDUIT.

PERCEPTUAL ENVIRONS / CRAFT MEDIA /IMPROVISATION


PIERCED /DAPPLED NATURAL LIGHT


DIFFERENTIATED SHADOW /SURFACE


EXTRAORDINARY MATERIALS.

TECTONICS AND TEXTILES. 

INDEXICAL /GESTALT / VISUAL PERCEPTION


NETWORKS / RESOURCES / AGENCY for the potential of BUILDING SCAFFOLDS / GAUZE / POCHE solids of a building/architectural plan


ABSENCES / INTERSECTIONS I GRIDS / MESHES / SPRAYS / MOTIFS ACTUALITY


IMMATERIAL / REPETITION / SINGULARITY ENCLOSURES / ITERATIONS / THINKING FORMS


MINIMALIST SPACES / INTERVALS, tuning objects to construct environments A child 'concretizes' its existential space.


Dwelling, Reverberations, Epiphanic Instant, Gaston Bachelard. 


Tidbury Ring, field drawings with cyanotype liquid on paper.

A Hut of Ones Own. Heidegger for Architects. 

Immaterial Architectures.


SENSING AND SPATIAL PRACTICE

EXPLORING THE LANDSCAPE


Soft/Blurring boundaries between art and the everyday making/becoming REFLEXIVITY / TRANSLUCENCY surfaces into an architectural presence TEXTURES / LIMINALITY on the absence of material.


STATIC ENVIRON / ANIMATED THROUGH THE BODY



THE ARCHITECTURAL SKIN / SURFACE, Blurring, revealing, masking, filtering, ARCHITECTURAL FEATURE / WALL / ARCH / PASSAGE /


VISUAL TOOL 


SCULPTURAL ASSEMBLAGES, towards Speculative Forms/Expression. 

TECTONICS IN MAKING, and the tectonics of immateriality/traces hidden by building. Concerned with bringing the material from its physical form into the meta-physical world.


PAVILION / FUSELAGE

THE CAMP / HUT

represents the true reality of things, Deakin.


The building as nothing more than an exposition of itself.


A subjective hypothesis, a drawing developed into an objectivity for experience/learning. 


SITE, the undoing of PLACE. (Casey)


BRICOLAGE / HEURISTIC PRACTICE, Using things at hand, temporal, self constructions, becomings, mind forming explorations.



DWELLING / MOBILITY / MOVEMENT IN THOUGHT

TEMPORAL CONSTRUCTED SPACE



TETHERED FOLLY against a fabric of time.

ART AS INDETERMINATE, able to arrest perceptions into different states (becomings) Stone Worlds

Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology Architecture and Ritual, how buildings shape society.



Bought to Light

Photography and The Invisible 1840-1900

CURATORIAL / DEVICE / BENCH / INTERLOCATOR

Jannis Kounellis, Theatre, stage crew shifting actors during a performance. Interconnected, between contexts, opening places between the social fabric.

Making spaces, expanding vision to create spaces 'between' in which to write ourselves. 


CONTEXT AND CONSIDERATIONS :

ART MUSEUM CULTURE

THE CONTEXT FOR CONTEMPORARY ART IS THAT WE MAKE, EXHIBIT AND VIEW.

MUSEUM DIRECTOR, CURATOR, COLLECTOR, ARTIST

None of that means anything anymore. Artists are now more DIVIDUALISTIC. They discover themselves not by securing a role within the historic narrative of a chosen medium. But by INTERGRATING into a more DIFFUSE ECOLOGY that involves not only making art, but also putting on shows, publishing, organizing events, teaching, networking.



THE STUDIO is no longer a retreat, but it now INTEGRATES, IT IS ALL EXTERIOR. THE NETWORK places the artist as a ’like' ITEM within an INTEGRATIVE

INVENTORY or DATABASE.


Immateriality/Temporal/Transitions material and movement/Human agency

A Species of Spaces.


Construction/Making/Collage

Forming, slowness and repetition, elements of painting

Assemblage, sensation, surface, objects and spaces between them gathered/thresholds

Sheltering/Weathered/ Exploring a fragility of a painting in the landscape


Robert Mangold, Paintings and Architectural Forms


Fragments from sketchbooks.


Ephemeral Architecture


Canvas as spatial verb

Yellow Ochre, Molochite, Gesso, Canvas, Paper, Textiles,Wood, Lead, Nails.


Canvas as folded construction/shelter/place

Operative Design, A Catalogue of Spatial Verbs.






Saturday, 18 May 2024

Body/Landscapes : Frank van de Ven. 2007

17 May 2007 Body/Landscape 12-19 July 2007 

Basque Country France Intensive 8-day dance workshop with Frank van de Ven in the South of France. Headquarters will be in the village of Macaye, situated at the foot of the Pyrenees Mountains on the French side of Basque Country. 

A stunning landscape rich with wild life and a strong local tradition. The river Nive/Errobi flows 20 km towards the ocean. 

The workshop is embedded within the annual Itxassou Festival of Music and Art. Body/Landscape: 

The workshop proposes strategies to confront our bodies with the multiplicity, unpredictability, directness and autonomy of the natural environment. The aim is to explore and develop consciousness of the body itself being an ever evolving landscape within a greater surrounding landscape.


http://bodyweatheramsterdam.blogspot.com Body/Landscape Workshop with Frank van de Ven Creative Scotland:








Friday, 17 May 2024

Spatiality/Body Politics : Drawing Geographies

Figure/Foreground : Drawing/Sensing

In drawing the moments of choice have been kept visible.
John Berger, Berger On Drawing.

A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artists own needs.
The Drawn Line-A Recession-A Past Statement Brought Forward

The Body of Drawing
Drawings by Sculptors
South Bank

Drawing registers the transforming effects of the imagination and the memory.
Drawings are images of flux; flux both imaginative and physical.

Drawing is a verb.
There is no way to make a drawing-there is only drawing.
Richard Serra

The Drawing Book
Tania Kovats
Drawing is something where you have  a really direct-immediate relationship with the material. You make a mark, and then you make another mark in relation to that mark.
Kiki Smith
The Body
Rodin's lines dont just represent carnality; they are themselves carnal, invasive, sexy. Uninterrupted by the space between the material and the body; the line made by the drawing hand stands in for other haptic things. The body is where drawing begins and where it ends.

Looking at images does not lead us to the truth, it leads us into temptation.
Marlene Dumas

Sexuality and Space
Beatrice Colomina

Drawing and Random Interference
From Chaos To Order And Back Again
Sally O'Reilly

Quantum Chance
Janna Levin

AFTERIMAGE : Drawing Through Process
Cornelia H. Butler

Fiona Banner
Life Drawing
Performance Nude

Marking Time
Examining Life Drawing as Methexis
Margaret Mayhew



Rather than regarding life-drawing as an event of realism, it may be more productive to
explore it as an assemblage of events, a field of practices, or as a cluster of performances.












Monday, 13 May 2024

Drawing Is An Immediate Art/of presence and transparency/phenomena 'unfolding'.

 Outpost 130524


The Primal Scene of Drawing.

Drawing as Gesture.

Coda : Coded Imprints/Mediality


Contemporary drawing tending towards graphism, illegible writing, that can be seen as a regression from image and coded sign to what could be described as states of the 'pre-sign', of moments of inscription and the emergence of the signifier from the gesture or act of making a mark.


Drawing Is An Immediate Art/of presence and transparency/phenomena 'unfolding'.





A fusion between the artist's mind, the artist,s hand and the beholder's gaze.


Even in the most fragmented of forms there is a recognition of our sense of self and our history as we mark. It is not only the functioning of perception that interests me, but also the activity of sensation.

Avis Newman.


The raw drawn line at its emergence into the world.


Line can no more escape the present tense of its entry into the world than it can escape into oil paints secret hiding places of erasure and concealment. This fundamental condition can bring it therefore much closer to the viewer's own situation than can the image in paint.


The drawn line in real time with its own momentum, its own trajectory.


A walk for a walk's sake, the mobile agent is a point shifting its position-forward.

Paul Klee.


The present of viewing and the present of the drawn line, hook onto each other, mesh together like interlocking temporal gears. They co-inhabit an irreversible permanently open and exposed field of becoming, whose moment of closure will never arrive.


Though it is impossible to reconstruct with any real accuracy the precise sequence whereby drawn lines on paper finally come together as a completed image. The permanent visibility of each unit of production, of each individual line on its own, means that there is no escaping the sense of the line as emerging from an initial state, blank paper to the state we eventually see.


The drawn line in a sense always exists bin the present tense, in the time of its own unfolding. The ongoing time of a present that constantly presses forward.


The blankness of the paper exerts a pressure that cannot be reduced or done away with, relentless its blankness forces everything into the open into a field of exposure without shields or screens, with no hiding places, a radically open zone that always operates in real time.


If painting presents being.

The drawn line presents becoming.

Line gives you the image, together with the whole history of its becoming-image.


However definitive, perfect, unalterable the drawn line may be, each of its lines, even the last line that was drawn is permanently open, to the present of a time that is always unfolding. Even that final line, the line that closed the image is in itself open to a present that bars the act of closure.


A Walk for a Walk's Sake.

Norman Bryson.


Cy Twombly.

Works on Paper. 1979.


Such gestures do not ask to be interpreted.


Making marks that open-up a space where in which the distinction between human and non-human is undecidable. How are we to respond to gestures that do not ask to be interpreted since they are meaningless, or more precisely they are gestures in meaningless.


If drawing is to be taken as just such a gesture, how are we to respond to it?


It it is not directed to meaning or interpretation, what does it demand of us?


Instead of considering what its meaning is, we could place the emphasis on the fact that a gesture has been made, the fact that something has been left for us. A mark inscribed on a piece of paper, perhaps by someone. We would thus receive the gestural mark as the trace of the other without any need for that mark to be meaningful. We may well do so without reverting to the 'what' and interpreting the gesture as an expression.


We need to say nothing more than the other has left this mark.


The Marks, Traces and Gestures of Drawing.

Michael Newman.


The gesture is communication of a communicability.

Means Without Ends.

Giorgio Agamben. 2000


The gesture is the exhibition of a mediality. It allows the emergence of the being-in-a-medium of human beings and thus it opens the ethical dimension for them. What is relayed to human beings in gestures is not the sphere of an end in itself, but rather the sphere of a pure and endless mediality. It has precisely nothing to say because what it shows is the being-in-language of human beings as pure mediality. However because being-in-language is not something that could be said in sentences, the gesture is essentially always a gesture of not being able to figure something out in language. It is always a gag in the proper meaning of the term.


For Michael Newman, the drawn mark could be taken as a 'gag' in precisely the way Agamben outlines. Its relation to language lies not in language as a goal, but precisely in its turning back on itself to expose its mediality, which is the condition of language.


Materiality and Mediality

Materiality and Mediality takes as its focus the reciprocal relationship between the facture of objects and the making of meaning. The questions addressed in this focus build upon ongoing research on textility. Material observations of textiles from Gottfried Semper onward have played a special role in the historiography of our field, and the study of textiles demands both new economic, social, and material approaches to the history of art, from canvas painting to tapestry, while also emphasizing global movements of materials, techniques, and makers.

More broadly, the study of materials encompasses both the complex negotiation of human makers with material resistances, and the way materials change physically and in terms of their reception over time. From the extraction and procurement of raw materials to the sensual qualities of finished products, the study of an object’s materiality brings forth histories of labor, trade, technology, and the environment that have been traditionally considered beyond the remit of art history. Concomitantly, media theory is a useful tool to examine how medium shapes the behavior of works of art, which becomes especially pronounced when new media emerge and spread. Both materiality and mediality impact the aesthetic, social, and ritual understanding of works of art. The study of materials and media invite approaches to the history of art that span geographies and chronologies in new and challenging ways. Materiality and Mediality serves as a broad framework to examine visual culture using sets of methodological tools that can shed new light on canonical works of art while simultaneously integrating overlooked objects into larger art historical narratives.

https://www.biblhertz.it/en/dept-weddigen/materiality-mediality


We are thus left with the question of how the mark received as trace of the other relates to the mark as gesture, even if the trace necessarily withdraws from the mark. How does the mark-as-gesture not reduce the trace to its mediation to expression in a medium and thus reduce the other to being a figment of my world, an actor on the stage that I project. The other is reduced to the same if the medium is conceived as a common substance, a kind of thing that joins two entities, communication as exposure breaks with this ontology.