Visual Poetics/Bricolage/Red is not a colour : The Studio/Space of Real Situations

Spatial Collage : Research/Discourse/Apparatus

Farnham University of the Creative Arts

rhythmanalysis : Space, Time and Everyday Life.

Lefebvre

Jannis Kounellis

Carlo Scarpa

Translates the painterly relationship of figure and ground into the space of real situations

The Visual Poetics of Jannis Kounellis, Suzanne Cotter and Andrew Nairne.

Modern Art Oxford, 2004-2005.

Timothy Morton : Realist Magic

The elasticity of sensation, affective and wonderous.

Speculative Raku Firing. 2012

Red is not a Colour. Bernard Tschumi.

bricolaged notes  from STUDIO UNBOUND : Lane Relyea

Institutional Critique : Studio/Post Studio Activity

SPATIAL AGENCY : Spaces of Fluid Interchange Between Objects, Activities, People.

Today studio and museum are superseded by more temporal, transient events.

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.

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

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.

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

OBSCURED MATERIAL

OUTPOST STUDIO 3.16

Notes from sketchbooks

Apokatastasis : Jim Jarmusch, Jozef Van Wissem

Spatial Asperity/Mesh, Membrane and Gauze

Drawing and its attempts to map out/make visible contingent things

Contingency, is what remains, as it comes up against causality/constantly passing through

Objects/Things conceptualized by the exploration of drawing (intervals of blindness)

Linking Surface to the Aesthetic Experience of Space.

Experiences incorporating interests with environmental textures into Art.

Points of Contact/Confluence of Circumstances

Materials bound by contact/canvas

Patina, absences, gesso, textile wrappings, field chalk, exhumed oyster shells, yellow ochre,

A philosophy of Reading

Solitude/Libraries : Cell/Court/Domain

Clay, Waxed Surface, Liquid Rust, Calico,

Sensate Bandages/Windings/Armatures : Corporeal Landscapes/Assemblages/Things

Social Architectures/Anthropologies/Imaginary Projects

Sally Mann : Matter Lent/Collodion wetplate negatives

Corpus, liquid light, flesh, spirit, trace, outline, human body, performative,

Jannis Kounellis: Gray is the Color of Our Time

Working Out of the Archive : Praesentia/In the Light of the Day.

Adam Sharr, notes that for Heidegger, a building was built according to the specifics of place and inhabitants, shaped by its physical and human topography.

Made from earth/clay/fire connected the human experience of earth and sky. Heidegger attributed sacred qualities to the jugs ability to give/to pour. Part of his fourfold cosmology of earth, sky, divinities and mortals. This “fourfold” represents Heidegger’s attempt at what he judges to be the most primary circumstances of existence, “ the inescapable pre-requisite of the world into which humans are thrown without consent (1962,164-168).

Heidegger's Topology
Things exist rooted in the flesh (R. S. Thomas)

Being, Place, World
Jeff Malpas. 2008

David Smith : Sprays, The Absent Object. Peter Stevens
Eidetic Image, Nearness/Proximity/Atmosphere
Temporal Structures,

Unthinking Eurocentrism
The Political Writing of Adam Kuper and Tim Ingold
Justin Kenrick. 2011

Pottery, The mindfulness of making social
Anthropological Notebooks 17

The War of Dreams
Exercises in Ethno-Fiction.
Marc Auge

The Culture of The New Capitalism
Richard Sennett.

VISITORS
a film by Godfrey Reggio

The World of The Anthropologist
Marc Auge, Jean-Paul Colleyn. 2006

The Field.

The basic methodology of anthropology is ethnography. This is the famous 'fieldwork' in which the researcher shares the daily life of a different culture (remote or close), observes, records, tries to grasp the 'indigenous point of view' and writes.
Objects of Anthropology
Politics is also the art of administrating and producing subjects, citizens.


The Woman in The Dunes
Kobo Abe

Site-Specific Art
Performance, Place and Documentation.
Nick Kaye

Heidegger For Architects
Adam Sharr
Poetically Man Dwells

The Perception of The Environment
Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill.
Tim Ingold

Hans Coper
Sensations in the Vessel/Innerness
Clay and The Engagements of Mind and Body

Peter Zumthor
Thinking Architecture/ A Way of Looking at Things.

Zumthor mirrors Heidegger's celebration of experience and emotion as measuring tools.
The physicality of materials can involve an individual with the world.

The Visual Poetics of Jannis Kounellis
Suzanne Cotter and Andrew Nainre.

He translates the painterly relationship of figure and ground into the space of real situations
Kounellis's engagement with the social and historical content and with the material fabric of a given space is critical to his art.

The Castelvecchio in the Opus of Carlo Scarpa
Possibly until very recently Scarpa's work was still judged as anachronistic, small scale and craft intensive.

An Attitude to History, The Drawings, Formal Language,
Technical Specifications of Materials.

What is the relationship between the visual arts and 'performativity'?
Site-Specific Art. Nick Kaye

Wittgenstein : The Duty of Genius
The work of art/aesthetics/ethics seen 'under the form of eternity'
Schopenhauer discusses, in a remarkably similar way, a form of contemplation in which we relinquish 'the ordinary way of considering things', and 'no longer consider the where, the when, the why, and the whither in things, but simply the what'.

Spatial Practices : Thinking Sociologically

'What does it do'?
Oren Lieberman

The Trace and its Connector/Ceramics, drawing and walking/wayfaring with things.

 Outpost 040523

Raveningham Sculpture Trail 2023

50.

Russell Moreton - Interested in revisiting an earlier project that I created at Kilquhanity (A Pathway Between Sunrise and Sunset), in which I mapped movements of the sun onto the landscape through demarcated pathways and intersections to create site based drawings for cyanotype prints.

Anecdote of the Jar

 I placed a jar in Tennessee,

 And round it was, upon a hill.

 It made the slovenly wilderness

 Surround that hill.

 The wilderness rose up to it,

 And sprawled around, no longer wild.

 The jar was round upon the ground

 And tall and of a port in air.

 It took dominion everywhere.

 The jar was gray and bare.

 It did not give of bird or bush,

 Like nothing else in Tennessee.

Wallace Stevens

Making Visible.

Walking The Drawing.

The co-existence of overlaying fragments of construction, by selective excavation and creative demolition.

Castelvecchio an attitude to history. Carlo Scarpa.

There is no stage at which humankind does not demarcate, beacon or sign their space, leaving traces that are both symbolic and practical.

The Production of Space.

Lefebrve.

Kairos : The movement and its moment

Being Alive.

Up, Across and Along.

The trace and the connector.

Tim Ingold.

Jannis Kounellis.

Lefebvre acknowledges that geographical space created through the body, through routes which were inscribed by means of simple linear markings. These first markings, paths and tracks drawn into the landscape would become the pores through which without colliding would produce the establishment of places and localities made special for one reason or another.  

Hand Built, Slab Ceramics.

Oxide washes, incised lines and piercings undertaken to the raw clay forms.

Architectural Facades/Camera Obscura. 

Darkroom's Erasure.

One day , we will understand that darkrooms were one of the last pools of darkness, where a pure form of thought was made visible. In the darkness at its heart, photography enabled us to see ourselves and the world more clearly, it was a place of truth and visions.

Dark Room, Garry Fabian Miller.

“The Pot, ancient as it is, is the first instance of pure innerness, of something made from the inside out.”

Adam Gopnik 2014

Richard Batterham

In 1981 he provided a rare statement: “The main work is not to make pots, but to allow them to come, to allow them to grow, to allow them to be alive, and to communicate warmth and life in that uncannily direct and undemanding way that true and naked work can, vulnerable as it is. To make this possible, I feel that it is necessary to use our skills and materials with humility and respect. This requires a certain quietness of living.”

A Vessel Defines Emptiness As Presence : Craft, Studio Practice /Theory and Analysis on Hans Coper, Edmund De Waal, Martin Heidegger

STUDIO PRACTICE, THEORY AND ANALYSIS.

MA SCHOOL OF CRAFTS AND DESIGN.

Working Notes : Brockwood Granary 2014

Theory and Analysis Documents, UCA Farnham

“A predynastic Egyptian pot, roughly egg-shaped, the size of my hand : made thousands of years ago it has survived in more than one sense. A humble, passive, somewhat absurd object, yet potent, mysterious, sensuous. It conveys no comment, no self-expression, but seems to contain and reflect its maker and the human world it inhabits, to contribute its minute quantum of energy.”

Hans Coper, 1969

Jean Vacher acknowledges Hans Coper’s links with Modernism and that his pots possess an “innerness” that might be profoundly biographical in nature stemming from “the profound displacements that occurred to him and his family as a result of the upheavals in Europe.” (Personal e-mail correspondence CSC 28 March 2014)

Reflective Journal : Diffusion/Spatial Intelligence/Between Figure and Ground

Reflective Journal : Diffusion/The Time Machine. Borderline Projects/Strange Attractors.

rhythmanalysis : Space, Time and Everyday Life.
Lefebvre

Jannis Kounellis
Carlo Scarpa

"Translates the painterly relationship of figure and ground into the space of real situations"
The Visual Poetics of Jannis Kounellis, Suzanne Cotter and Andrew Nairne.
Modern Art Oxford, 2004-2005.

Spatial Intelligence
New Futures for Architecture
Leon van Schaik

Archaeological Site, Morn Hill, Winchester.



Psychogeography is an approach to geography that emphasizes playfulness and "drifting" around urban environments. It has links to the Situationist International. Psychogeography was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals."^[1]Another definition is "a whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities... just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape."^[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography

Corpus : Propositions/Proofs and the situatedness of an environment

Architectural Body/An organism that persons

Organism, Person, Environment : Madeline Gins and Arakawa

You cannot see me from where I look at myself 

Francesca Woodman

Therefore the idea of the human body is composed of the many ideas of the component parts.

The idea which  constitutes the formal being  of the human mind is the idea of the body, which is composed of many indi­viduals,  each  composed  of many  parts.

(Ethics, Part II, Proposition XV, Proof)

Camouflage : Neil Leach

Mimesis

Sensuous Correspondence

Sympathetic Magic

Mimicry

Becoming

Mimesis : Paradox or Encounter. Jane Bennett

Yet,  freed  from the block, the relations between her and everything which was not her had changed. An absolute yet invisible change. She was now the centre of what surrounded her. All that was not her made space for her.

Where there are no  words, knowledge comes through  physical acts and  through  the space through which those acts are made; by permitting each act the space conferred  meaning  upon  it and  no  further meaning  was necessary.

John Berger

We sense and experience that we are eternal. For the mind no less senses those things which it conceives in understanding than those which it has in the memory. For the eyes of the mind by which it sees things and observes them are proofs. So although we do not remember that we existed before the body, we sense nevertheless that our mind in so far as it involves the essence of the body under a species of eternity is eternal and its existence cannot be defined by time or explained by duration.

(Spinoza, Ethics, Part V, Proposition XXIII)

Situatedness is a theoretical position that posits that the mind is ontologically and functionally intertwined within environmental, social, and cultural factors. As such, psychological functions are best understood as constituted by the close coupling between the agent and the environment.