The working of matters and the exteriority of their relations. Assemblages/The Book/Deleuze and Guatarri.
Friday, 30 May 2025
Thursday, 29 May 2025
Brian Clarke : Properties of Matter and Imagination (Working Text)
Neo Baroque, Postmodern rendered/computer generated surfaces.
New Forms of Media Aesthetics, Peter Greenaway
Mesh Topologies
bricolaged notes from STUDIO UNBOUND : Lane Relyea
The Function of the Studio
Daniel Buren
The Studio is no longer as seen as belonging to a system.
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.
Networks are both integrative and decentralizing in that they privilege casual or weak ties over formal commitments.
Being part of a network that privileges itinerancy and circulation over fixity, that diminishes hierarchies and boundaries in favour of mobility and flexibility across a more open extensive environment.
'The Studio made into a showroom display'
Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics. 2004
Claire Bishop
The Individual and The Social
A place where meanings, properties and behaviors fluctuate radically.
Bennett Simpson. Can you work as fast as you like to think. 2003
The hosting/re-created artist's workspaces, like a threshold between private and public actuality and potentiality.
Spaces of Fluid Interchange Between Objects, Activities, People.
Today studio and museum are superseded by more temporal, transient events.
The Notion of the Evolutionary Exhibition.
Placing greater emphasis on INFORMATION, DISCUSSION and GATHERINGS
Establishing NETWORKS, fluctuating between highly specialized work by scientists, artists, dancers and writers
Obrist/Vanderlinden, Laboratorium, Antwerp. 1999
MODULATION, Deleuze
Immaterial Social Acquaintances/Information
Along with the rise of Networks comes a new Ideology, one that Advertises Agency, Practice and Everyday Life.
The Dividual (The New Mobile Creator) Deleuze
Someone who is 'UNDULATORY In ORBIT, in a CONTINUOUS NETWORK
Colour Nexus : Promiscuous Mobility
Material Flows 2007/2017 Towards Disentanglement
Social behaviour is trapped in inescapable patterns of interaction coded by techno-linguistic machines, smartphones, screens of every size, and all of these sensory and emotional devices end up destroying our organism's sensibility by submitting it to the stress of competition and acceleration.
Franco "bifo" Berardi
OBSCURED MATERIAL
The Modulation of the Image



Wednesday, 28 May 2025
Spatiality/Spatial Agency/Light Laboratory : Literary and Visual Cartographies : Lightness,Quickness,Exactitude,Visibility,Multiplicity,
Making Processual Paths Of Volatility : Ceramics/Sinopis Red/Palette from Antiquity.
Outpost 171225
Early palette from Antiquity:
White, yellow ochre, sinopis red (earth red), black (bluish).
Michael Grimshaw, Winchester School of Art. 2007
Intricate Local Behaviours : Conversations/Correspondences between unrelated entities.
Lines. (Making/Thinking/Matter/Material)
Tim Ingold
What Is Art ?
Joseph Beuys.
I find it interesting that you say that this stool or box speaks to you, whereas this floor, as you said, doesn't. A similar thing happens to me, and I ask myself: What is this due to, the fact that it doesn't speak to me, or only a little? It makes me think that these ready-made things, this precision, actually compels me to behave in a particular way, not just these things here, but also a certain window, or a specific type of architecture that is very fixed very straight, that derives from something very thought out; this compels me to live or behave in a similar way,
Volker Harlan.
Beuys: Yes, right, exactly; in other words, this lives (points to the box) while the other (points to the floor) is dead. The first doesn't force itself on you, the other continually forces itself on you.
Thinking Processual.
Resistance/Viability : Mapping/Living
Meaning that it is not so much a matter of crossing boundaries, but rather a matter of open-endedness. A place where boundaries have become diluted and single figures are already coupled or heterogeneous figures (in the case of Bacon, man-animal).
Kovar/Deleuze.
The Architecture of Abjection.
The Logic of Sensation.
Working From Simple Things/Gestures/Materials.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/
Theoretical Movements in Clay+Ceramics.
The Circular/Elliptical Matter/Mattering of Things.
Gathering/Pouring/Manifolds : Forms of Thinking.
Events.
Arte Povera.
The Way, without demarcation, rather a way of viability by which the continuum of life is renewed.
The Philosophy of Living.
Francois Jullien.
The Quiet Mind : Silently without resistance
(Sound of barking) Do you listen to that dog? Wait, wait. Silently? Listen to it completely silently, which means without any resistance, without any irritation, just listen to it. When you listen quietly there is no resistance, there is no irritation, you do not identify yourself with the dog and the barking of it, your mind is quiet.
Meditation
The meaning of that word is to measure, basically (for oneself).
Human Bodies/Spatial Bodies.
Kounellis/Opera, interventions, unscripted by workmen, bodies on trolleys.
Penone, wooden frame, human body, empty frame installed in a stream.
Beuys, accumulator, clay balls, wires, simple sturdy wooden table.
Objects become relational in conjunction with the ways in which the environment proposes its own constitutive limits.
The Enabling Constraint.
Erin Manning.
Visual Art Practice. 2024
Whether abject(ion) issues forth from a human body, a space or any other entity, it sets the whole world in motion and instigates a chain of exchanges.
In 'becoming' for Deleuze and Guattari we form a multiplicitous assemblage where individual elements are blurred, and together begin to act as a kind of whole. But a whole that is not fixed, as the assemblage also has a side facing a BwO which is continually dismantling the organism.
Through abject(ion) the smells, textures and physical forms of our body space and this excrement leaking out, become fused together. We become part of the space: the space becomes a part of us.
Abject(ion) re-configure the body and space physically through the transference of matter.
Architecture Without Organs (BwO)
The BwO is in fact produced as a whole, but a whole alongside the parts. A whole that does not unify or totalize them. But that is added to them like a new, really distinct part.
Deleuze and Guattari.
BwO plays a role in the notion of an open subjectivity. Kovar asks, are or how are abject(ion) and BwO related, and how might this relation be played out in architecture?
The BwO for Deleuze and Guattari is a concept that uses the virtual dimensions of the body as a set of potentialities that may be activated through becoming, importantly it is a body, understood as process that is continually constructing and deconstructing connections.
To speak of process and the continual construction and deconstruction of connections is to implicate numerous entities between which these connections are made and therefore speak of heterogeneity.
Open Subjectivities.
Unmaking The Human Body/Subject.
Blurring the boundaries between interior and exterior.
Translucent assemblages are all that are left from the transparency/clarity of the morning that will soon dissipate.
Reliquaries of Light and Darkness.
Bodies, spatial and human in transitional movements.
The Sacred and The Medical Body.
The Hospital Room.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
Cronos.
Clay/Working/Learning/Making.
Working in Clay and Fire /Mapping Resistance and Viability.
City of Orion, ceramic objects in the landscape.
Raveningham Sculpture Trail. 2024
Ceramic works investigating the relationship of water to the human body and the architectural body of interior spaces.
Water at The Hungate, Norwich. 2023
Exhibitions with Anglian Potters.
Ferini Gallery, Lowestoft. 5
Undercroft, Norwich. 4
All Saints, Cambridge. 2
2019-2024.
Revisited Contemporary Ceramics
Things of Beauty Growing.
The Fitzwilliam Museum. 2018
Anglian Potters. 2018
Teaching Sessions, throwing/handbuilding.
Brockwood Park School. 2012-2015
Speculative Clay Workshop/Walking in the Landscape.
Teaching Academy, Brockwood Park School. 2011
Raku Firings.
St Ninian's Cave.
Scotland. 2013
Bodyscapes, raw clay installations.
Chapel Arts Studios, Andover. 2010
The Yard, Winchester. 2009
Contemporary Craft Ceramics. 2004-2006
Life Drawing/Sculpture, figurative/abstractions in clay. 1996-2002
Dexterity Crafts.
Potter throwing domestic pottery.
Walton on the Hill. 1985
Ceramics, architecturally influenced vessels in slab and thrown processes.
Epsom College of Art and Design. 1981-1984
Industrial Pottery experience.
Grayshott Pottery. 1979-1981
Studio Pottery experience.
The Hop Kiln Pottery. 1978
A Level Ceramics.
Farnham Sixth Form. 1976-1978
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
Disjunction and Event/Processual Research : Collage/Constrained Spaces/Spatial Body
Processual Making/Messy Entanglements : Creating sustained flows of engagement resulting in some connections that can occur but not others, working practices that can create a pattern or field of relations/resistance or constraint.
Movement is Material.
Mobility/New Social Assemblages
Ingold/Thrift
Movement creates differences, it resists and perpetuates between human bodies/spatial bodies.
Constrained spaces shaped by the tensions of the environment.
Combined works/conceptual frameworks with research as an integral part of the practice to produce ways of sensing/making ecologies of knowledge.
Ecology-as-Assemblage
An assemblage is able to retroactively affect its parts.
Human identities and bodies are inherently multiple, relational and dependant on more-than-human presences.
On Landscape Ontology, Bryant. 2011
The co-existence of such heterogeneous dimensions and demands makes up the 'event.' The event is a sudden intensity generated by the juxtaposition and superimposition of differences. The event tends to exacerbate differences rather than making everything similar.
Disjunction and Event.
Bernard Tschumi.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/