Showing posts with label David Sylvian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Sylvian. Show all posts

Monday, 29 June 2026

Raveningham/Trails and Wayfaring/ Finding enlightenment in the ground beneath one's feet. J. G. Bennett.

Existing between the subjectivity between things.


You Are The Weather.

Roni Horn.


Clouds and Clocks.

The project arises between a dialectic between the poetic and the systematic.

Between Science and Art.


The Embodiment of Minimal Gesture.













Wanderlust, A History of Walking. 

Rebecca Solnit. 2002

The Mind at Three Miles an Hour.


Everyday Aesthetics : Ordinary Lives

What shall I do next?

Tim Ingold.

Finding enlightenment in the ground beneath one's feet.

J. G. Bennett.

Tim Ingold is an anthropologist who has looked at the interface between people and the environment. In The Perception of the Environment, he argues that ecological psychology and the philosophical writings of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty share the view that the world becomes  meaningful through active inhabitation, or 'dwelling', rather than cognitive representation. 

Curriculum Making : The Enactment of Dwelling in Places.


In a world of materials, nothing is ever finished : 'everything may be something, but being something is always on the way to becoming something else'

Tim Ingold 


Raveningham/Scripted Places

Garden/Ground/Circulation Diagrams.

Doing Slow Philosophy : Materials/Objects/Things/Walking/Listening to the wind 


Boundaries/in the making between the personal and the commonly shared.

A space where the individuals mental reality meets cultural narratives.


Few boundaries are impenetrable

They are rather, semi-permeable membranes providing housing while allowing selective commerce

In a world of materials, nothing is ever finished : 'everything may be something, but being something is always on the way to becoming something else'

Tim Ingold 2011


The Autonomy of The Natural Environment.

Sculpture/Playing with the existence of things.

Field Studies : Pathways around the Sun.

Drawing : Assemblage of Lightness and Weight.

Enmeshed Space : Working Drawing with Handwritten Notes.

Lawn Deliberations/Mappings of Human Agency/Space/Time.

Space projected from the body is biased towards the front and right.

The future is ahead and 'up.'

The past is behind and 'below.'

Time as a structure/place to observe things in constant motion/relation.

Drawing Site/Spiral Windings/Diagram/Spherical Markers

Terracotta, lime wash/lamp black/blackboard paint/chalk/ink

Ground Pegs/Labels/Text Markings/Archival Information

Points becoming lines, Tim Ingold.


Reading Matter/Rooms.

The Lake of The Mind.

Stochastic Thinking.

Steven Holl.


Raveningham : Site-specific project place

The Garden of Ongoing Differences.

Diffraction/Energy/Analysis/Attunement 


Site Cyanotypes/Drawings/Intermediaries

Spatial Collages Reconfigured  

Walking/Thinking with Ideas/Observations.

Site Drawings and Observational Mappings.

Cultivation Field.

The circle and square together embody what I think of as human nature.

Dark Room, Garry Fabian Miller.


If the everyday can be considered an ecology where passions circulate in a perpetual state of intensification and entropic decline, the empirical self (and not just David Hume's version of it) is essentially in a state of flux. This posits the human as an organism constantly adjusting to its passionate environment, with a self that is constantly appearing and disappearing, crystallising and dissolving.

Ben Highmore


Rich Lyrical Motifs.


Brilliant Trees.

Within each lesson lies the price to learn.

David Sylvian. 


Artist's Development.

Planting Research

Vital Nourishment.

Raveningham Garden Project.

Circle/Linear Time/Centred on objects.

Spiral/Deep Time/Awareness between things.

Architectural Ceramics.




Inseminations/Sketchbooks

Cell/Seeds/Dispersal/Cloud

Organism-Person-Environment

Working Ideas/Proposals into Matter/Making

Contents/Description/Instructions/Diagram/Drawing


Presentation/Ritual/Repetition.

Art is contemplation and must act upon our consciousness.

Objects/Things are part of the artist's immediate existence.

Contemplative experiences become truly meaningful when they occur in everyday life and when nirvana or the state of superior awareness blurs into samsara or ordered time.

For Tapies, repetition is above all else a perpetual questioning or a perpetual becoming.

A working process that is additive, which incorporates changes and accidents and as such his methods are hardly erasing anything that is already present on the canvas.  

A Summer's Work, Antoni Tapies.


The Garden/Material of/for Forking Paths.


The Diagram/The Program/The Inquiry

Marking Durations.

Ground Mappings.

Solar/Daylight Observed/Shadows Recorded 


A Garden Observatory/Philosophy of Silence/Solitude. 


Raveningham Sculpture Trail. 

Site Visit 160423


Sculptural Spacings and Sensual Engagements.

Showing Points/Lines/Vectors of Change/Movement.

Dwelling Demarcations/markers of temporality and disappearance. 


A poetics derived/driven from both the systematic and the small wonders of the everyday.

Circular Breathing/Cyclical Lines. 


The Peripheral Movement/Moment

The Space/Time between things.

The Concept of Sculpting Invisible Materials.

The Array, a phonographic inquiry recording transits of the suns pathways across the sky. 

Wanderings, caught up in the wanderlust of stillness and slowtime.

Paths of movement, paths of observation, paths of existential abstractions following daylight.

The artist's creative act of a self amongst others.


A sculptural deliberation that engages with the experiences of working a site in the landscape.


Curatorial.

Spatial Practice.

Practice/Display/Audience.

Of the mason's who built them, we can say that they both designed as they drew, and drew as they designed. But their designing, like their drawing, was a process of work, not a  project of the mind.

Tim Ingold 'Making'

Camouflage : Neil Leach

Camouflage offers  a mechanism of locating the self against the otherwise homogenising placelessness of contemporary existence. It thereby promotes a sense of attachment and connection to place.

Camouflage may  therefore provide a sense of belonging in a society where the hegemony of traditional structures of belonging - the family, church and so on - has begun to break down. This aesthetic sense of belonging can be compared to other modes of belonging, such as religious devotion or romantic attachment.

Aesthetic  production should maintain the capacity  to operate as  a mediation between the self and the environment, but only aesthetic production whose design has been carefully  controlled can achieve this. The difference between productive and unproductive modes of expression is therefore a question of design. In this respect we can recognise the important social role of design in providing a form of connectivity for ‘cognitively  mapping an individual within the environment. 


Design becomes  a crucial consideration for the effective operation of camouflage.

In highlighting the creative capacity of human beings to adapt to their environment, this book offers a more optimistic account of human existence, which valorizes the present as the site of productive endeavor.


The thing contained is not the thing contained.

Manifesto for explorations of 'IN'

Steven Holl.






Friday, 14 November 2025

Erin Manning for Brian Massumi : Sylvian & Fripp - Every colour you are (live '93)

Relationscapes
Erin Manning
Movement/Art/Philosophy

For Brian Massumi

The self is only a threshold, a door, a becoming between two multiplicities.
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus.




Sunday, 16 July 2023

High in the architecture : A thing with of its own, with the wall.

Outpost 230322

Fragments/Procedural Remnants/Palimpsest


Robert Ryman : Used Paint, Suzanne P. Hudson. 2009.

The wall of the gallery is, of course, the surface of the paintings and the wall is virtually pulled into the paintings. While the concept is important, the work has to do primarily with visual response.

Monitor, 1978. Oil on stretched cotton canvas with metal fasteners and four bolts, a thing of its own , with the wall.


High in the architecture,

Something's moving,

Unrecognisable spirit,

Dislocated

It's fate belongs to another time,

Another place,

Projections of fallen masonry,

Ghosts of a once pagan temple,

Standing empty,

I stand empty,

Nothing ever happens,

A vessel filled

Held and spilled,

Nothing,

A trace from another time,

Another place.


Angels, from Sleepwalkers, David Sylvian.

David Sylvian as a philosopher, a foray into postmodern rock, Leonardo Vittorio Arena.










An architectural experience where a site/plot becomes a space of interaction, of mutual subjectivity and inter-subjective identifications.


Drawing attention to the body's concealment, and a list of more reliable things.

Things that through reflection and assessment had made her happy in the past.


A site for something else.

A set of experiences rather than physical features.


The ambiguous state of hiding and revelation.

Minimalism, fluid actualities, spaces between things.


White Paintings, Robert Ryman.

On the daylight nature of materials and substances.


The inside of your home is private and your personal realm of expression, the outside is part of other people's lives.


Architectures that determine how to live/movements for living.


Woodman's juxtaposition of smooth skin and scarred architectural details, alludes to a visual tactility, a kind of attack on the body's surface. An undoing/un-fixing of the smooth skin of which female beauty is assumed to be lodged.


A myriad of textures, colours, new insertions into the worn character of the old repaired building.


Home-Studio, as an autobiographic experience, a place that can be circulated and incorporated into your lives and personal histories.



Skin-Surface-Subjectivity.

Harriet Katherine Riches, 2004.


Staged Conjunctions.

Photography and its phantasm of fusion with the environment and other bodies.


Surfaces, broken down bearing the marks of neglect and decay, patina and aesthetics.


Evacuating a temporal recession into the past, revealing layers upon layers, and the literal tearing or scraping away of the photographic surface.


Asperities between a bodily discomfort provoked by the interplay of skin with the torn and peeling sheets of parched wallpaper, and an irritating, scratching, a pulling away of the delicate layers of the body's skin.


Woodman's paper shell also evokes the maternal body as a space in from which the individuated subject emerges.


One needs to feel the texture of the surfaces and objects in the pictures against bare-skin, to truly understand what Woodman hoped to achieve in her work.

Sloan Rankin, Francesca Woodman, 1998.


Identity becomes discrete and subjectivity realised.


For each photographic self-reflection momentarily ensures the continued (mis) recognition of the subject's own bodily borders falsely acting as mirror like surfaces which prevent the subject's re-absorption into both herself and her surroundings.








Wednesday, 26 April 2023

Diffractive Title/Things : The thing contained is not the thing contained.

 Outpost 240423


The thing contained is not the thing contained.

Manifesto for explorations of 'IN'

Steven Holl.


You Are The Weather.

Roni Horn.


Rich Lyrical Motifs.

Brilliant Trees.

Within each lesson lies the price to learn.

David Sylvian. 








Alternative Photography/Filtered Radiance

Documents from research archive







Seeing Dark Things

Roy Sorensen. 2008


Tracing Light : Petworth House, West Sussex 2000

David Alan Mellor, Garry Fabian Miller.


Light And The Genius Loci

For Derrida, the sun not only marks the beginning of metaphoricity but it is also an inescapable reminder of the solar system and oscillations, hidings and occultrations, inherent in 'a certain history of the relationships; earth/sun inthe system of perception'.


Mutations Of Light

Petworth Window, 6 July 1999


Light's Windows And Rooms

Passing towards the Invisible.

The prospect of some metaphysical realm beyond the blue end of the spectrum and beyond material things illuminated to carnal sight, was a recurrent  theme in William Henry Fox Talbot's early speculations.


CATCHING THE LIGHT

The entangled history of light and mind

Arthur Zajonc


BROUGHT TO LIGHT

PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE INVISIBLE 1840-1900





Sight Unseen

Picturing The Universe

Corey Keller

Invisible objects, penciled by nature's own hand.

In his introduction to the exhibition catalogue Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion, and Art, the historian of science Bruno Latour argues that scientific pictures are powerfully affective because they more than mere images; they are, as he puts it, the 'world itself'.


The Social

Photographic Eye

Jennifer Tucker

Nineteenth century science was characterized by both the appeal to visual evidence and the need for confirmation by the testimony of eyewitnesses. The latter explains why scientists pursued public viewings of their photographs by means of illustrated slide lectures, exhibitions, and reproduction in newspapers and magazines.

An understanding of the social boundaries of nineteenth century science helps make sense of a certain paradox within contemporary attitudes towards photography of the invisible. The ideal of mechanical objectivity in documenting visual knowledge demanded the elimination of the artist-observer and all of the subjectivity implicit in drawing by hand. 


Invisible Worlds

Visible Media

Tom Gunning

William Henry Fox Talbot, Slice of horse chestnut, seen through the solar microscope, 1840, salt print 18.6x22.5 cm.


Techniques Of The Observer

On Vision And Modernity In The Nineteenth Century

Jonathan Crary

The Camera Obscura and its Subject

Above all it indicates the appearance of a new model of subjectivity, the hegemony of a new subject-effect. First of all the camera obscura performs an operation of individuation; that is, it necessarily defines an observer as isolated, enclosed, and autonomous within its dark confines. It impels a kind of askesis, or withdrawal from the world, in order to regulate and purify one's relation to the manifold contents of the now 'exterior' world. 


UNDER THE SUN

By The Light Of The Fertile Observer

Metaphors of illumination in the photography of Christopher Bucklow, Susan Derges, Garry Fabian Miller, and Adam Fuss.

An Epiphany Of Light

David Alan Mellor


Christopher Bucklow , Guests



Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries

Matter is provisional and that includes me. If the physics is correct then we are neither alive or dead as we commonly understand it, but in different states of potentiality.












Finding enlightenment in the ground beneath one's feet.

J. G. Bennett.


Walking/Thinking with Ideas/Observations.

Site Drawings and Observational Mappings.

Cultivation Field.

Artist's Development.

Planting Research

Vital Nourishment.


Raveningham Garden Project.

Circle/Linear Time/Centred on objects.

Spiral/Deep Time/Awareness between things.

Architectural Ceramics.


Inseminations/Sketchbooks

Working Ideas/Proposals into Matter/Making


Contents/Description/Instructions/Diagram/Drawing


Curatorial.

Spatial Practice.

Practice/Display/Audience.

 


Hungate.

Julian 600.

Cell/Seeds/Dispersal/Cloud

Organism-Person-Environment



Anglian Potters

5 Years of membership/exhibition/making.


Commissioning of 12 cu ft Gas Kiln.

Kiln Craft Glass Kiln.

Momentum Wheel, refurbish/rebuild.


Drawing Confrontations of Flesh and Bone.

From Models to Drawings.

Figuring It Out.

Anatomy/Art/Photography : Living/Deceased/Represented.

The Body on Display.

From Naked to Nude.

The Impossible Nude.


The Psychology of Nakedness.

Confronting the human form both practically and theoretically.

Vital Nourishment.

Aesthetics in Western Art and Chinese Culture.


Georg Eisler.

Francois Jullien.


Wednesday, 11 May 2022

Elliptical Phenomena : Flux and Mutability

 David Sylvian & Holger Czukay: Plight & Premonition Flux & Mutability





Elliptical Phenomena

Ellipsis : Chantal Ackerman, Lili Dujourie, Francesca Woodman.

Lynne Cooke


Body, Personal Relations, and Spatial Values.

Composition, Concept, Object.


Space is an abstract term for a complex set of ideas.


The photogram is the immediate result of a constellation of light, three-dimensional object and photosensitive material.


Experimental Vision

FROM BEYOND VISION

Photograms

Flouris M. Neusus


Work in the light laboratory was a standard part of the curriculum.


The photogram became a functional element of a personal time curve, allowing the artist to continually endeavour to see or put phenomena into new relations. 


Moholy-Nagy and the Chicago Bauhaus

Thomas Barrow


THE COLOUR OF TIME

Garry Fabian Miller


The Majesty of Darkness

Adam Nicolson


The Unmade

The Pregnant

The Half Erotically Unmade


ADYNATA- Time's Colour, impossible Beauty

Marina Warner


TIME AND LIGHT

Nigel Warburton


TRACING LIGHT

David Alan Mellor

Garry Fabian Miller


Derrida

Blindness

Butades

Trace and Trait 


Karl Blossfeldt

WORKING COLLAGES


Experimental Vision : Research Collages/Ceramic Structures/Making Spaces