Social apparatuses and agents that explore the possibilities of space. Other Worlds : Insistent moments of mark making/subjectivity. Russell Moreton
Monday, 27 May 2024
Everyday Enchantments : Playing with Constructed Situations
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
Tuesday, 21 May 2024
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
Friday, 17 May 2024
Spatiality/Body Politics : Drawing Geographies
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.