The Interval/Gap/Spacing of a poetic instant.

The Poetic Instant.

The search for the interval inherent to the Japanese culture of Ma (spacing, interval, gap)

It suggests a consciousness of time that encompasses the intermediary and the in-between, composing the present, a present in the process of becoming.

Mono-Ha, the idea of the artwork as a phenomenon of natural order with no other meaning. The artist can simply organise what already exists, and only he who dedicates himself to it – and concentrates on it – manages to maintain a privileged relationship with the world.

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Beyond the formal attraction and cultural interest of the objects, the collections also translate the consistency, the tenacity even, of ending the dispersion of the fragments of the world to reach an (illusory) form of totality. Through the careful work done, the artist becomes a conservator, in the museum sense of the term: he gathers the pieces, cleans them, counts, tidies, names and exhibits them. The same applied attention is brought to collected pieces as to created ones. Of his monastic wisdom, he nurtures the kare-sensui of his art and his life, repeating identical gestures that deepen the sense of a relationship with the world.

We cannot create

what we can do is remove the dust

that has formed on the surface of things

thus rendering visible the world contained underneath.

Sekine Nobuo, 1969

Tsukuranai to iu kota (Do not create)

Roger Ackling.

The Invisible Appears. 2020

Lydia Rekow-Fond.

Translated by Derek Byrne. 

Spatial Representation/Practice : Discursive photography and documentation

 The Poetics of Space : The house, from cellar to garret. The significance of the hut.

 

"He will revive the primitivity and the specificity of the fears. In our civilization, which has the same light everywhere, and puts electricity in its cellars, we no longer go to the cellar carrying a candle. But the unconscious cannot be civilized. It takes a candle when it goes to the cellar."

 

Gaston Bachelard.

 

"All religions, nearly all philosophies, and even a part of science testify to the unwearying heroic effort of mankind desperately denying its contingency."

 

Jacques Monod,

The Human/Straw Dogs, John Gray.

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

Jana Sterbak

Remote Control 1989

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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.

A Hut of One's Own, Ann Cline

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

Sensorium : A Partial Taxonomy, Caroline A. Jones.

Contemporary artists aim to produce specific relations with the technologies they adopt and adapt;
This schematic offers a partial taxonomy.

Caroline A. Jones, Sensorium : Embodied Experience, Technology and Contemporary Art 2006

Immersive
the "cave" paradigm, the virtual helmet, the black-box video, the earphone set

Alienated
taking technology and "making it strange," exaggerating attributes to provoke shock, using technologies to switch senses or induce disorientation

Interrogative
work that repurposes  or remakes devices to enhance their insidious or wondrous properties; available data translated into sensible systems

Residual
work that holds on to an earlier technology, repurposes or even fetishizes an abandoned one

Resistant
work that refuses to use marketed technologies for their stated purpose; work that pushes viewers to reject technologies or subvert them

Adaptive
work that takes up technologies and extends or applies them for creative purposes, producing new subjects for the technologies in question

Research Notes : Matters of The Mind/ Contemporary Art Practices

Information Processing and Performance in Traditional and Virtual Teams
The Role of Transactive Memory. Terri Griffith, Margret A. Neale
Research Paper No. 1643

Transactive Memory : A Contemporary Analysis of the Group Mind. Daniel M. Wegner.

Prehistory/Making of the Human Mind. Colin Renfrew. 2007

The Mind In The Cave. David Lewis-Williams. 2004
The Matter of Mind, Cathedrals of Intelligence/Steven Mithen

The Poetics of Space. Gaston Bachelard. 1958

The Poetics of Reverie, Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos. Gaston Bachelard. 1960


A particular cosmos forms around a particular image as soon as a poet gives the image a destiny of grandeur. The poet gives the real object its imaginary double, its idealized double. This idealized double is immediately idealizing, and it is thus that a universe is born from an expanding image.

O silence round like the earth
movements of the mute star
gravitation of fruit around the clay nucleus
May no one wound the Fruit
it is the past of joy which is becoming round.

Jean Cayrol
Reverie and Cosmos.175

The sun has gone mad and stripped the earth of its ionosphere. For decades blasting radiation has poured upon earth, melting the polar caps and turning permafrost into streams, rivers, oceans. Huge deltas have been built, lakes formed, seas have risen.

The Drowned World, JG Ballard.

Biosphere (Ecology and Entropy) Cyanotype Drawing.

Reverberations of place : Accord 1.

Reverberations of place : Accord 1., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Leylines :
Visual art installation in the chamber, Hyde Abbey Gatehouse, Winchester UK.