Material absorbed in its own thoughts :
Friday, 14 November 2025
Erin Manning for Brian Massumi : Sylvian & Fripp - Every colour you are (live '93)
Thursday, 8 June 2023
Surface Membrane : Painting, sensations in material agency/grisaille/landscape
Painting and Mapping/Choreutics : The Numinous
Areas of Grisaille.
Anthropology of Landscape
Christopher Tilley
Kate Cameron-Daum
Spirituality in Contemporary Art
The Idea Of The Numinous
Jingu Yoon
New Global Ecologies
Baratunde Thurston
The Rooms
To Love Is To Live
Jehnny Beth
Painting
We are not in the presence of a passively representative image, but a vector of subjectivation.
Guattari, 1995 :25
https://www.performanceparadigm.net/index.php/journal/article/view/132
Francesca Woodman : becoming-woman, becoming-imperceptible, becoming-a-subject-in-wonder
Lone Bertelsen, 2013
Studio Blackboard
ODYSSEY Aesthetic Intervals/Timbre/Traces
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
Georg Simmel, text Frames, Handles, Landscapes and the aesthetic ecology of things
Thursday, 6 January 2022
Poetics of Space : Gaston Bachelard "The unconscious cannot be civilized"
Assemblage/Design/Collage
Friday, 15 October 2021
Visibility Reconceived : Haptic Vision/Subjective Possibilities, blueprints, paintings, collage.
Sunday, 12 September 2021
On The Beach : Photographic Clouds of Potentialities/Boundary Based Agency
Wind Turbines : Coastal Geometries/Machines
North Sea Rim
Sea Palling
Visual Device : Textual Intervention
Albert Camus : The Plague, 1947. (Penguin Fiction)
The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a virulent plague.
Cut off from the rest of the world, living in fear, they each respond in their own way to the grim challenge of the deadly bacillus. Among them is Dr Rieux, a humanitarian and healer, and it is through his eyes that that we witness the devastating course of the epidemic.
Written in 1947, just after the Nazi occupation of France, Camus's magnificent novel is also a story of courage and determination against the arbitrariness and seeming absurdity of human existence.
'Camus represents a particularly modern type of temperament, a mystic soul in a Godless universe, thirsty for the absolute, forever rebellious against the essential injustice of the human condition'
Shusha Guppy, Sunday Times
Existential Gestures : Looking away from the sea
Low Tide
Lightness
Quickness
Exactitude
Visibility
Multiplicity
CONSISTENCY/Guattari
The Three Ecologies
Italo Calvino
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Locality/Social Complexity- Notebooks
Flux : Consciousness
In and Out of Material
Beach
Tuesday, 6 July 2021
What is philosophy/Deleuze, Guattari : The unfolded garment and other spatial concepts
Intermezzo : Nomadic Photographic Assemblage
What is philosophy/Deleuze, Guattari
a thousand plateaus
Deleuze, Guattari
Assemblage
Becoming
Body Without Organs
Nomad
Rhizome
Smooth Space
State
War Machine
The Uberficiation of the University
BY MARK CARRIGAN ON NOVEMBER 22, 2016
A fascinating short book by Gary Hall, available open access at the Coventry University repository:
The Sharing Economy
Platform Capitalism
Uber.edu
The Reputation Economy
The Microentrepreneur of the Self
The Para-academic
The Artrepreneur
Affirmative Disruption
The unfolded garment and other spatial concepts
The Unfolded Garment
Embracing Subjectivity
Pierced Assemblage on Photogram
Espace-Milieu, Winchester Cathedral.
Painting evolved from Space for Peace, Winchester Cathedral. Site drawing from architectural plan and documentation of people moving within the event.
aerial, cathedral, cyanotype, public gathering,
spatial mapping, palimpsest, drawing, lightness
What is Philosophy?
Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari
Their book is a profound and careful interrogation of what it might mean to be a 'friend of wisdom', but it is also a devastating attack on the sterility of what has become, when 'the only events are exhibitions and the only concepts are products which can be sold'. Philosophy, they insist, is not contemplation, reflection or communication, but the creation of concepts
Saturday, 11 February 2017
"into a universe of creative enchantments" Guattari

The French thinker Felix Guattari, in a powerful historical essay, has asked some fundamental questions about the direction in which the century and its achievements in technology are taking us; he calls for a new vitality in the relations between individuals and the language of the culture they inhabit:' Unconscious figures of power and knowledge are not universals. They are tied to reference myths profoundly anchored in the psyche, but they can still swing around toward liberatory paths/voices.' He too sketches the possibility of a utopia, dreaming of 'transforming this planet - a living hell for over three quarters of its population - into a universe of creative enchantments'.
Marina Warner, From the Beast to the Blonde (p418)
































