Thoughts on Art : Janie says we all such a crush of want. Nick Cave.

little Janie wakes up on the floor & she says!!!!

we’re GONNA HAVE A REAL COOL TIME TONITE!!!!

(Janie says we are all such a crush of want half-mad w/ loss we are

violated in our sleep & we weep & we toss & we turn & we

burn we are

hypnotised we are cross-eyed we are pimped we are bitched we are told

such monstrous lies—)

Janie wakes up & she says

we’re GONNA HAVE A REAL COOL TIME TONITE!!!!

Today's Lesson.

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. 

DIG!!!LAZARUS DIG !!!. 2008

The Planet drowns  in an ocean of photographic emulsion.

The more civilised we are, the fewer moral choices we have to make. But the mind atrophies. A moral calculus that took thousands of years to develop starts to wither  from neglect. Once you dispense with morality, the important decisions become a matter of aesthetics.
Super Cannes, J G Ballard. 2000

russellmoreton.com

Collage/abstracts (Heuristic Fragments) Reflective Material #1

Is there still an aesthetic illusion? And if not, a path to an “aesthetic” illusion, the radical illusion of secret, seduction and magic? Is there still, on the edges of hypervisibility, of virtuality, room for an image?

— Jean Baudrillard, The Conspiracy of Art, 2005

A heuristic technique (/hjᵿˈrɪstᵻk/; Ancient Greek: εὑρίσκω, "find" or "discover"), often called simply a heuristic, is any approach to problem solving, learning, or discovery that employs a practical method not guaranteed to be optimal or perfect, but sufficient for the immediate goals.

Heuristic Material : Collage 

1. encouraging a person to learn, discover, understand, or solve problems on his or her own, as by experimenting, evaluating possible answers or solutions, or by trial and error: a heuristic teaching method.

2. serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.

Reading Collage : Spatial Drawings/Documents/Analogue Photography

A Hut of One's Own, Ann Cline

Texts,Annotations, Foundations, Pathways, Corridors, Bookmarks, Walking, Thinking, Ramble, Cross Country, Disciplines, 

Herzog  and De Meuron

NATURAL HISTORY

Jana Sterbak

Remote Control 1989

http://art-history.concordia.ca/eea/artists/sterbak.html

Observatories/Astronomical Images/Libraries : Slow reading/seeing as a thing, not as a resource

Astronomical Images/Observatories/Libraries 

To read slowly, deeply, looking cautiously before and aft, with reservations, with doors left open, with delicate eyes and fingers. 

Friedrich Nietzsche

To read is to be attentive to the trace of the other, and this attention takes time. Additionally, and perhaps paradoxically, it calls for an emptying of the self to prepare for the other, abandon that allows the other to gleam.

Slow Philosophy : Why Slow Reading Today? Boulous Walker. 2017

https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/slow-philosophy-reading-against-the-institution/preface-why-slow-reading-today

Celestial Sphere : Stars and Dust Particles

Entanglements of matter and meaning.

Karen Barad, Meeting The Universe Halfway, 2007.

Hawking understood black holes because he could stare at them. Black holes mean oblivion. Mean death. And Hawking has been staring at death all his adult life. Hawking could see.
Martin Amis, Night Train, 1997.

For Baudrilland the actual photographs are beside the point. 

It is what precedes them that counts in his eyes- the mental event of taking a picture.
Sylvere Lotringer, The Piracy of Art, 2008.

The Library : A Meditation on the Human Condition (Giacometti, artist-philosopher)

Books can step up to us- into us- in many ways.
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich was for me that rare precipitate force which calls another book into being.

Mario Petrucci, Heavy Water, a poem for Chernobyl.