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Art Workings~Visual Art Practice: Ceramics intertwined with an extensive visual art ...: Making : Anthropological Objects ~ Fabrications on Humaning . Tim Ingold . Ceramics ~ Fired Clay 

The Politics of Architecture : Theorizing through speculative spatial practices.

"He rubbed his eyes. The riddle of his surroundings was confusing but his mind was quite clear - evidently his sleep had  benefited him. He was not in a bed at all as he understood the word, but lying naked on a very soft and yeilding mattress, in a trough of dark glass. The mattress was partly transparent, a fact he observed with a sense of insecurity, and below it was a mirror reflecting him greyly. Above his arm- and he saw with a shock that his skin was strangely dry and yellow - was bound a curious apparatus of rubber, bound so cunningly that it seemed to pass into his skin above and below. And this bed was placed in a case of greenish-coloured glass (as it seemed to him), a bar in the white framework of which had first arrested his attention. In the corner of the case was a stand of glittering and delicately made apparatus, for the most part quite strange appliances, though a maximum  and minimum thermometer was recognizable."

H. G. Wells : The Sleeper Awakes. 1899/1910

Spatiality : The Spatial Turn, Robert T. Tally Jr. 2013

Immediate Architectural Interventions, Durations and Effects : Apparatuses, Things and People in the Making of the City and the World. Alberto Altes Arlandis, Oren Lieberman. 2013

Preface (1921) ” The great city of this story is no more than a nightmare of Capitalism triumphant, a nightmare that was dreamt a quarter of a century ago. It is a fantastic possibility no longer possible. Much evil may be in store for mankind, but to this immense, grim organization of servitude, our race will never come” H.G. Wells. Easton Glebe, Dunmow,1921.

Making Processual Paths Of Volatility : Ceramics/Sinopis Red/Palette from Antiquity.

Outpost 171225

Early palette from Antiquity:

White, yellow ochre, sinopis red (earth red), black (bluish).

Michael Grimshaw, Winchester School of Art. 2007

Intricate Local Behaviours : Conversations/Correspondences between unrelated entities.

Lines. (Making/Thinking/Matter/Material)

Tim Ingold

What Is Art ?

Joseph Beuys.

I find it interesting that you say that this stool or box speaks to you, whereas this floor, as you said, doesn't. A similar thing happens to me, and I ask myself: What is this due to, the fact that it doesn't speak to me, or only a little? It makes me think that these ready-made things, this precision, actually compels me to behave in a particular way, not just these things here, but also a certain window, or a specific type of architecture that is very fixed very straight, that derives from something very thought out; this compels me to live or behave in a similar way,

Volker Harlan.

Beuys: Yes, right, exactly; in other words, this lives (points to the box) while the other (points to the floor) is dead. The first doesn't force itself on you, the other continually forces itself on you.

Thinking Processual.

Resistance/Viability : Mapping/Living

Meaning that it is not so much a matter of crossing boundaries, but rather a matter of open-endedness. A place where boundaries have become diluted and single figures are already coupled or heterogeneous figures (in the case of Bacon, man-animal).

Kovar/Deleuze.

The Architecture of Abjection.

The Logic of Sensation.

Working From Simple Things/Gestures/Materials.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/

Theoretical Movements in Clay+Ceramics.

The Circular/Elliptical Matter/Mattering of Things.

Gathering/Pouring/Manifolds : Forms of Thinking. 

Events.

Arte Povera.

The Way, without demarcation, rather a way of viability by which the continuum of life is renewed.

The Philosophy of Living.

Francois Jullien.

The Quiet Mind :  Silently without resistance

(Sound of barking) Do you listen to that dog? Wait, wait. Silently? Listen to it completely silently, which means without any resistance, without any irritation, just listen to it. When you listen quietly there is no resistance, there is no irritation, you do not identify yourself with the dog and the barking of it, your mind is quiet.

Meditation

The meaning of that word is to measure, basically (for oneself).

https://www.krishnamurti.org/transcript/in-meditation-there-is-no-direction/#:~:text=One%20must%20be%20wholly%20and,is%20vain,%20full%20of%20confidence

Human Bodies/Spatial Bodies.

Kounellis/Opera, interventions, unscripted by workmen, bodies on trolleys. 

Penone, wooden frame, human body, empty frame installed in a stream.

Beuys, accumulator, clay balls, wires, simple sturdy wooden table.

Objects become relational in conjunction with the ways in which the environment proposes its own constitutive limits.

The Enabling Constraint. 

Erin Manning.

Visual Art Practice. 2024

Whether abject(ion) issues forth from a human body, a space or any other entity, it sets the whole world in motion and instigates a chain of exchanges.

In 'becoming' for Deleuze and Guattari we form a multiplicitous assemblage where individual elements are blurred, and together begin to act as a kind of whole. But a whole that is not fixed, as the assemblage also has a side facing a BwO which is continually dismantling the organism.

Through abject(ion) the smells, textures and physical forms of our body space and this excrement leaking out, become fused together. We become part of the space: the space becomes a part of us.

Abject(ion) re-configure the body and space physically through the transference of matter.

Architecture Without Organs (BwO)

The BwO is in fact produced as a whole, but a whole alongside the parts. A whole that does not unify or totalize them. But that is added to them like a new, really distinct part.

Deleuze and Guattari.

BwO plays a role in the notion of an open subjectivity. Kovar asks, are or how are abject(ion) and BwO related, and how might this relation be played out in architecture?

The BwO for Deleuze and Guattari is a concept that uses the virtual dimensions of the body as a set of potentialities that may be activated through becoming, importantly it is a body, understood as process that is continually constructing and deconstructing connections. 

To speak of process and the continual construction and deconstruction of connections is to implicate numerous entities between which these connections are made and therefore speak of heterogeneity.

Open Subjectivities.

Unmaking The Human Body/Subject.

Blurring the boundaries between interior and exterior.

Translucent assemblages are all that are left from the transparency/clarity of the morning that will soon dissipate.

Reliquaries of Light and Darkness.

Bodies, spatial and human in transitional movements. 

The Sacred and The Medical Body.

The Hospital Room.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

Cronos.

 

Clay/Working/Learning/Making.

Working in Clay and Fire /Mapping Resistance and Viability.

City of Orion, ceramic objects in the landscape.

Raveningham Sculpture Trail. 2024

Ceramic works investigating the relationship of water to the human body and the architectural body of interior spaces.

Water at The Hungate, Norwich. 2023

Exhibitions with Anglian Potters.

Ferini Gallery, Lowestoft. 5

Undercroft, Norwich. 4

All Saints, Cambridge. 2

2019-2024.

Revisited Contemporary Ceramics

Things of Beauty Growing.

The Fitzwilliam Museum. 2018

Anglian Potters. 2018

Teaching Sessions, throwing/handbuilding.

Brockwood Park School. 2012-2015

Speculative Clay Workshop/Walking in the Landscape.

Teaching Academy, Brockwood Park School. 2011

Raku Firings.

St Ninian's Cave.

Scotland. 2013

Bodyscapes, raw clay installations.

Chapel Arts Studios, Andover. 2010

The Yard, Winchester. 2009 

Contemporary Craft Ceramics. 2004-2006 

Life Drawing/Sculpture, figurative/abstractions in clay. 1996-2002

Dexterity Crafts.

Potter throwing domestic pottery.

Walton on the Hill. 1985

Ceramics, architecturally influenced vessels in slab and thrown processes.

Epsom College of Art and Design. 1981-1984

Industrial Pottery experience.

Grayshott Pottery. 1979-1981

Studio Pottery experience. 

The Hop Kiln Pottery. 1978

A Level Ceramics.

Farnham Sixth Form. 1976-1978

• Russell Moreton
• visual art
• visual fine art
• spatial practice
• research creation
• ecology of experience

Silent Interiors : Anthropocene Aesthetics : Ceramics and Environmental Engagement.

Ceramics and  Architecture : Making Things, Perception/Thought/Action

Urbanism : Fossil Futures~Anthropocene

Ceramics Following Resonances : Interiors in fired clay.

Ruins · Jozef van Wissem · Zola Jesus

When Shall This Bright Day Begin

℗ 2016 Jozef van Wissem and Zola Jesus

Released on: 2016-02-05

Mixer: Jozef van Wissem

Producer: Jozef van Wissem

Composer: Jozef van Wissem

Music  Publisher: Wissem Music

Lyricist: Zola Jesus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR-Kx7ehxCQ&t=21s

Architecting and its ecologies/matters of concern.

The body's participation in explorations, engagements and its care in attending to the values of immediacy, vulnerability, fragility, improvisation, performance, movement, multiplicity and becoming.

Apparatuses and their ecologies for learning.

The choreographic object/agent.

The role of the body is scored through a shifting agency and the power of techniques of things.

Theorial objects of things which do theory without us imposing it, on them.

Oren Lieberman. 2013.

The Production of The Unexpected.

The Joy of Speculative Play.

Perception/Thought/Action

A caring curiosity that wants to know and understand and explore relations.

Projective Speculations.

Ecologies/Locations.

Questioning/Research.

Processual learning occurs in movements, gestures, postures, expressions and exchanges with other bodies and things.

Landscapes Of Actions.

Modalities Of Intravention

Constitutive Qualities Of Dance.

Ephemerality

Corporeality

Precariousness

Scoring

Performativity

If we start by moving, by thinking through moving, and by living through moving. We'll arrive to that disturbing vision : that the predicament of dance is to be an art of erasure. Dance always vanishes in front of our eyes in order to create a new past. The dance exists ultimately as a mnemonic ghost of what had just lived there.

Lepecki. 1996.

Bodily interactions highlight the entanglement of material through a process/processual understanding and situated analysis.

The Archive.

Matters of Concern.

Terms of Engagement.

Interrogate with descriptors and new issues of practice.

Bringing Things to Life.

Starting conditions for responsible and curiosity driven engagements with the world.

Place-Refreshed.

New-Agencies

The Interconnectedness of Places.

For Ingold, congealed places become relationships/connections for lines of occupation.

Curriculum making/experience as the enactment of dwelling in places.

Landscape Constructions/Observatory/Garden.

Raveningham, drawing,mapping, landmarking paths, wayfinding, territories.

Ceramics and  Architecture

Marking The Line.

In response to Sir John Soane.

Joanna Bird. 2013

Arranging the physical space/circulation to receive forms/intraventions.

Christie Brown, her practice engages with mythology and narrative and the parellels between psychoanalysis and archaeology through figurative work, which references archaic collections and the significance of inanimate objects in human lives.

Carina Ciscato, relocated to London in 1999, where she worked in the studio of Julian Stair and Edmund de Waal. The move, the contrast in culture and in attitudes to ceramics, has seen her work grow in confidence and move in exciting new architectural directions.

Nicholas Rena, his art is concerned with reconciling the domestic and the sacred, through the medium of the vessel, a form that reveals in a single look an exterior, the figure- and an interior – the inner life. Rena's strong , expressionist forms make explicit this duality, this communion and tension between our inner and outer life. His intensity and feeling for interior space imbues his work with immense presence and stillness.

Clare Twomey is an advocate for craft as commensurable to the wider visual arts. Her practice can be understood as 'post studio ceramics' as her work engages with clay yet often at a critical distance. Twomey's work negotiates the realms of performance, serial production, and transience, and often involves site-specific installations. She is especially concerned with the affective relations that bind people with things, and how objects can enable a dialogue with a viewer.

Joanna Bird Pottery

Director of the Joanna Bird Foundation. London.

Ceramic Forms and Paintings.

Materials/Substances on a drawn and constructed surface.

Drawings, wax and yellow ochre on layered canvas and paper.

Water : A Phenomenal Lens.

The transformative properties of the substance.

The 'void space' water gardens and the interior ceilings of the adjacent apartments are connected by reflected light from the ponds. These 'void spaces', three inches of water over black smooth stones from Ise, are analogous to a sacred space within the every day world of domestic urban life.

An attention to phenomenal properties of the transformation of light through material can present poetic tools for making spaces of exhilarating perceptions.

Imaginative metaphysics shows that man becomes all things by not understanding them- for when he does not understand he- becomes them by transformation himself into/with them.

 

Refraction/Reflection/Spatial Reversal Phenomena.

Time : Duration and Perception.

Duration as a multiplicity of secession, fusion, and organisation.

Henri Bergson.

One's perception modifies consciousness, attention is broadened, time is distended, just as in the density of language.

Thus when I measure time, I measure impressions, modifications of consciousness.

Saint Augustin.

Time conceived as the analog between architecture and cinema, passing time was measured and observed in a precise strip of sunlight which slowly formed different reflections as it passed across the glossy lack floor.

The physical and perceptual experience of architecture is not a scattering or dispersion, but a concentration of energy. This physically experienced 'lived time' is measured in the memory and the soul in contrast to the dismemberment of fragmented messages of media..

Steven Holl.

Outpost 100223

Hungate, Norwich. 

Anglian Potters

Undercroft, Norwich. 2023

Helgate Proposal

Exploratory Ceramic Practice.

Clay Making. 

Plaster Work.

Commissioning of Gas Kiln for large scale works.

Glass Tech Kiln.

Materials at the Hungate Norwich/The Eyes Of The Skin.

Outpost 050823

Dwelling/Reading with Intensity.

Hungate Medieval Art.

11 Princes Street.

Norwich.

NUA Degree Show, Interior Design/Architecture. 2023.

Boardman House.

Redwell Street.

Norwich.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/

Dwelling with Intensity.

In our houses we have nooks and corners in which we like to curl up comfortably. To curl up belongs to the phenomenology  of the verb to inhabit, and only those who have learned to do so can inhabit with intensity. There is a strong identity between naked skin and the sensation of home. The experience of home, like that of a large cradle, is essentially an experience of intimate warmth. Our houses, and their homecomings from snow-covered landscapes turn the pleasure of the skin into a singular sensation.

Gaston Bachelard.

Architecture in the flesh of the lived world not as a construction of an idealised vision.

An Architecture of Visual Images.

The ocular bias has never been more apparent in the art of architecture than in the past 30 years, as a type of architecture, aimed at a striking and memorable visual image, has predominated.

Instead of an existentially grounded plastic and spatial experience, architecture has adopted the psychological strategy of advertising and instant persuasion; buildings have turned into image products detached from existential depth and sincerity.

The current deluge of images has consequences on the architecture of our time, producing a retinal art for the eye. Instead of being a situational bodily encounter, architecture has become an art of the printed image fixed by the hurried eye of the camera. 

As buildings lose their plasticity, and their connection with language and wisdom of the body, they become isolated in the cool and distant realm of vision. With the loss of tactility, measures and details crafted for the human body, and particularly for the hand, architectural structures have become repulsively flat, sharp-edged, immaterial and unreal. The detachment of construction from the realities of matter and craft turns architecture into stage sets for the eye, into a scenography devoid of the authenticity of matter and construction.

The contemporary city is the city of the eye, one of distance and exteriority.

The haptic city is the city of interiority and nearness.

The Significance of the Shadow.

In our time, light has turned into a mere quantitative matter and the window has lost its significance as a mediator between two worlds, between enclosed and open, interiority and exteriority, private and public, shadow and light. Having lost its ontological meaning, the window has turned into a mere absence of the wall.

Take the use of enormous plate windows, they deprive our buildings of intimacy, the effect of shadow and atmosphere. Architects all over the world have been mistaken in the proportions which they have assigned to large plate windows or spaces opening to the outside. We have lost our sense of intimate life, and have become forced to live public lives, essentially away from home.

Luis Barragan.

An architecture that addresses our sense of movement and touch.

Acoustic Intimacy.

Sight isolates, whereas sound incorporates; vision is directional, whereas sound is omni-directional. The sense of sight implies exteriority, but sound creates an experience of interiority. The wide, open spaces of contemporary streets do not return sound, and in the interiors of today's buildings echoes are absorbed and censored. The programmed recorded music of shopping malls and public spaces eliminates the possibility of grasping the acoustic volume of space. 

Sight is the sense of the solitary observer, whereas hearing creates a sense of connection and solidarity. Every city has its echo which depends on the pattern and scale of its streets and the prevailing architectural styles and materials.

On Skin-Architecture-Corpus-Corporeality-Matter-Sensuality

Architecture and its materials of patina and petrified silences.

The hollow smells of abandoned houses stimulated by the emptiness observed by the eye.

In The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Rainer Maria Rilke gives a dramatic description of images of past life in an already demolished house, conveyed by traces imprinted on the wall of its neighbouring house. The retinal images of contemporary architecture certainly appear sterile and lifeless when compared with the emotional and associative power of the poet's olfactory imagery.

Architecture presents the drama of construction silenced into matter-space-light. 

The most persistent memory of any space is often its smell.

Every dwelling has its individual smell of home and every city has its spectrum of tastes and odours.

The experience of home is essentially one of intimate warmth.

The Visible and the Invisible.

The Intertwining – The Chiasm.

The skin reads the texture, weight, density and temperature of matter. The surface of an old object, polished to perfection by the tool of the craftsman and the assiduous hands of its users, seduces the stroking of the hand.

Spaces of Intimate Warmth.

The fireplace and its immaterial alcove, sensed by the skin, a warm cave carved into the room itself that is an intimate and personal space of warmth. Antonio Gaudi, Casa Batilo, Barcelona, 1904.

The bath with its heightened experiences of intimacy, home and protection are sensations of the naked skin. Pierre Bonnard, The Nude in the Bath, 1937.

The door handle is the handshake of the building. The tactile sense connects us with time and tradition, through impressions of touch we shake the hands of countless generations. It is pleasurable to press a door handle shining from the thousands of hands that have entered the door before us, the clean shimmer of ageless wear has turned into an image of welcome  and hospitality.

My body is made of the same flesh as the world, this flesh of my body is shared by the world and the flesh of the world or my own is a texture that returns to itself and conforms to itself.

Merleau-Ponty's sense of sight is an embodied vision that is an incarnate part of the flesh of the world. Our body is both an object among objects and that which sees and touches them. Merleau-Ponty saw an osmotic relation between the self and the world - they interpenetrate and mutually define each other – and he emphasised the simultaneity and interaction of the senses. My perception is not a sum of visual, tactile and audible givens; I perceive in a total way with my whole being: I grasp a unique structure of a thing, a unique way of being, which speaks to all my senses at once.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Juhani Pallasmaa.

Being and Circumstance.

Notes Towards A Conditional Art.

Robert Irwin.

Here in the phenomenal realm we can no longer say that one is more real than the other. Consequently, this 'mark X' no longer rises out of ground as before, but remains an integral part of, and interacts with, its circumstances. To quote Merleau-Ponty on this point, 'Our visual field is not neatly cut out of our objective world, and is not a fragment with sharp edges like a landscape framed by a window. We see as far as our hold on things extends. Far beyond the zone of clear vision and even behind us.'

The Condition of Postmodernity

The experiences of space and time have become fused into each other by speed (David Harvey uses the notion of 'time-space compression), and as a consequence we are witnessing a distinct reversal of the two dimensions – a temporalisation of space and a spatialisation of time. The only sense that is fast enough to keep pace with the astounding increase of speed in the technological world is sight. But the world of the eye is causing us to live increasingly in a perpetual present, flattened by speed and simultaneity.

Silence-Time-Solitude.

A powerful architectural experience silences all external noise; it focuses our attention on our very existence, and as with all art, it makes us aware of our fundamental solitude.

Architecture emancipates us from the embrace of the present and allows us to experience the slow, healing flow of time. Buildings and cities are instruments and museums of time. They enable us to see and understand the passing of history, and to participate in time cycles that surpass individual life.

The essential auditory experience created by architecture is tranquillity. Architecture presents the drama of construction silenced into matter, space and time. Ultimately architecture is the art of petrified silence. The finished construction becomes a museum for a waiting, patient silence. The silence of architecture is a responsive, remembering silence.

Power Of Gentleness

Meditations on the Risk of Living.

Anne Dufourmantelle.

The Eyes Of The Skin

Architecture and the Senses.

Juhani Pallasmaa.

Constitutive Limits/Architectural Studies : Explorative Place Making/St Peter Hungate Norwich.

The Enabling Constraint.

Objects become relational in conjunction with the ways in which the environment proposes its own constitutive limits (Hungate, Water). Erin Manning.

Harleston 090723

Outpost 190823

Hungate Architectural Explorations. 

Air/Place/Breath/Light/Architecture/Ritual/Social Space

Cell-Court-Domain.

The line of the old roof can be seen.

Like mothers of men, the buildings are good listeners. Long sounds, distinct or seemingly in bundles, appease the orifices of palaces that lean back gradually from canal or pavement. A long sound with its echo brings consummation to the stone.

Adrian Stokes.

Initial works made and manifested through entanglements of practice/making/place.

Slab, box, extrusions/industrial/handbuilt, flue linings, corten architectural  models.

Water/Anchorages/Anchorite places between the sacred and the secular.

Cell-Court-Domain

Body-Water-Air

Vessel-Boat-Building

Piscina in the south wall.

Squint into the nave and tower.

Clay-Water-Fire

Five clay slab fabrications exploring intimate spaces, notion of inhabitation/anchorite within social/sacred space.

Art/Spiritual Space.

Ambivalences/Uncertainties/Paradoxes

Something Endures between The Made/Un Made.

Raw Clay Construction, lead tray, water.

The Hungate : Ambient Atmosphere/Precarious Situation/Fragile Structure and Social Relationship.

Water (secular) both corrodes/penetrates the structure, and water (sacred) caresses/comforts the soul.

White slip/emulsion paint/ yellow ochre.

Nocturnal sounds/long sounds as reminders of human solitude and mortality

https://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/

Hungate Ceramic Forms/Spatial and material inclinations/wayfaring in  exploring place.

Generative/Speculative use of material/volumes and historical narratives.

Clay-Drawings in volumes, void spaces and surfaces.

Brick Form/Buttressed/Tower/Scaffolding

Corten Metal Box Constructions.

Components brought into a spatial form/navigation/exploration of built spaces.

Building as drawing, showing changes taken, marked, erasures,superimpositions, indexical and scored surfaces.

Materials marked, moved and redeployed elsewhere.

Poche/Pierced Walls/Architectural Details

Lead tray/Water/Ceramic/Wooden Wedges.

Making Template/Drawing/Pierced Components

Hidden Spaces/Enclosed/Confined Volumes/Voids

The carpenter is not an architect.

Ingold 

Experiential/Spatial Alterations to the drawn plan as the building commences. 

St Peter Hungate

Norwich.

A History of the Church.

Geoffrey Goreham, Rachel M. R. Young.

1965.

This sketch by John Kirkpatrick, who died in 1728, is the earliest extant picture of the church.

John Bonde also left 6d, to the anchorite of St. Peter Hungate. This  was a man vowed to live a religious life in solitude. An anchorite's cell was often built against the church wall with a connecting window, so that he could hear Mass and yet remain secluded.

The pyx and the metal box or chrismatory (mentioned in 1368) which held the consecrated oils were also locked lest the holy wafer and oils should be stolen and used in witchcraft.

Monochrome by James Sillett, 1828.

Daily Rituals : Moving with the affective tone of objects

Outpost 100723

Hungate/Water

The House of Spiritual Retreat.

Emilio Ambasz/Emerging Nature.

Sculpture in the Expanded Field, Rosalind Krauss.

The Art of Memory/Frances Yates.

https://monoskop.org/images/b/be/Yates_Frances_A_The_Art_of_Memory.pdf

Objects and their Relational Potential.

Propositions for Thought in Motion.

Landing Sites, Organism/Person/Environment

Affective tone is an environmental resonance of a feeling-in-action.

The immanent value of objects is intrinsically connected to the relations they create within the conditions of a felt realm of a therapeutic becoming or in conjunction with the ways in which the environment proposes its own constitutive limits.

For Lygia Clark it is how these relations take form that is key, and this is where the artistic process makes itself felt. Without a set of enabling constraints to make the work take form, Clark's objects would melt into an already overcoded environment. 

Lygia Clark's relational objects create worlds, produce events in the making, this is how their value is felt. The value of her relational objects is not expressed in their capacity to stand alone as objects, rather it is felt in the emergent qualities their coupling with bodies in relation brings forth. Their value lies in how the forces of potential express themselves in their relational movement towards the world. Her relational objects are defined by the constraints of their pairings, these constraints are the limits borne out of the environment that incite the ways in which complex series can conjunctively take form.  

In a relational world where language dances, thoughts becoming form.

Resonances that modulate her body, her own becoming-movement in tandem with the environment moving. A slowness rich with the eventfulness of sensation-in-the-making.

Amanda Baggs, Erin Manning.

Some Notes on the Nature of Abstraction.

One thing is clear: when the level or kind of reality resides in the events of perceptual phenomenon, as well as in those abstracted concepts of image transference, such methodologies (tools) as language, script, graphs, photography, and the various games of pictorial, historical, curatorial, and literary analysis and description have only thethe appropriate limited meaning of their present currency in the world.

It is in this sense that modern (so-called abstract, non-objective) art mat seem obscure, as it generates direct questions aimed at each of these seemingly established roles and practices making up the historical distinctions for art.

Being and Circumstance.

What our perception presents us with (at every moment) is an infinitely complex, dynamic, whole envelope of the world and our being in it. In summary, we can thus state that all perceptual knowing is knowing in action (change) and the equivalent of the phenomenal.

Robert Irwin.

Notes Towards A Conditional Art.

Inquiry.

By the turn of this century, nothing, absolutely nothing, was on certain ground: everthing was being challenged; this is the main fact of our lives.

Alfred North Whitehead. 

Objects expressing different ways (feeling-thinking) of making practices.

Hungate : Figural/Watery Form.

Chinese paper on used white linen sheet with sea pebbles, cyanotype fluid, black spray paint.

Simple plain ceramic bowl, water, bandage.

Reverberations of Reverie : Architecture as the source of insights.

 Outpost  170623

Private Stillness/Palpability/Tectonics

Architecture as the source of insights.

We exit the expected bounds of time and enter space.

Reverberations of Reverie

Gaston Bachelard.

Stretto House.

Two sequences of an aqueous space that creates a connecting point.

Rooms are flooded to reveal their prior emptiness or our inability to occupy them.

Holl/Tarkovsky

Perception At Its Limits.

Perception that must exceed the location of the body and enter the wider space that has no limits.

Weight persists in his work as a knowable presence.

Deceleration : A Collapse of Plastic Space.

Attributes are revealed via the slow occupation of use, in which new spaces are generated as frames are withdrawn and the space is imploding/collapsing/decelerating.

Steven Holl consistently reaffirms the interiority of each work, showing us a city of atomized lives, interiors, and private stillness. 

The internal core of a room is a reverie.

Bachelard in The Poetics of Space suggests that at the core of a rooms emptiness is a space derived not from the bounding closure of its walls, but from its deep, but absent source of palpable energy.

By the way of the body, lyrical explorations of space/surface relations.

The body creates situations with or without others.

Certainly a sense of melancholy is in this work, but ultimately I think it is a sense of weighted and corporeal subjectivity that is implied here, a form of reverie.

Spatial definition is ordered by angles of perception.

An architecture based in perception at its limit

Parallax is the dynamic change in spatial volumes due to the moving position of the body as it experiences space. The house is not an object, it is experienced in a dynamic relationship with the terrain, the angle of approach, the sky, and through light in which it creates a focus  on the internal axes of movement.

The change in the arrangement of surfaces, defining space due to the change in position of a viewer is the essence of parallax.

Steven Holl. 

It is the precision of Holl's formal work and his tectonics that give these spaces their amazing palpability. But like Hejduk, it is his teaching and his writing, and the degree to which his architecture is the source of his insights that is of most value. It is his concept of space that precedes all work written or architectural, and it is the effect of this space and the means by which it is ultimately perceived.

Sensing Spaces

Architecture Reimagined.

Royal Academy of Arts. 2014

Presence : The Light Touch of Architecture.

Philip Ursprung.

The heart of this exhibition is the interaction between three factors: the nature of physical spaces, our perception of them, and their evocative power.

Kate Goodwin.

Architecture.

A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

Edmund Burke.

An introduction on taste in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime and  Beautiful. 1759

Architecture has a more direct influence on our lives than any other art form, but its ability to affect how we think, feel and interact is often overlooked. To explore the impact of built space on our lived experience, the royal academy has invited architects from around the world to create immersive installations for a groundbreaking exhibition.

Sensing Spaces : Architecture Reimagined, sets out to redefine what an architectural exhibition might be. Instead of displaying drawings, models and photographs to illustrate an architect's work and ideas, Sensing Spaces offers visitors the opportunity to engage with architecture directly and to experience bit through their bodies and senses. Individually and together the exhibition and its works raises intriguing questions about the boundaries between art and architecture, the human qualities of space, and the role buildings play in shaping our lives.

Steven Holl argues for an architecture informed by a phenomenological interrogation in which he sees architecture as a dynamic process where by we constantly reinvent our relationship to the world of the senses, including our sense of time and space.

Architects and artists create in an attempt to make people perceive, to make something visible.

The house as a vessel, as an instrument of experience for time, light and place. As a poetic potential to speak of something other, a language and a relative autonomy that grounds or precedes the architecture.

Building transcends physical and functional requirements by fusing with a place.

The site of a building is more than a mere ingredient in the conception of architecture, it is its physical and metaphysical foundation.

Architecture through building is bound to a situation, a construction that is intertwined with the experience of a place.

House : Black Swan Theory.

Anchoring 

Steven Holl.

Clay/Raw Oxides/Biscuit Fired/Mirror/Water

The Sensations The World Calls Forth/Water at Hungate.

Outpost 150723

Hungate Medieval Art and Architecture.

https://www.axisweb.org/p/russellmoreton/

The Sensations The World Calls Forth.

We paint-sculpt-compose and write with sensations.

INSIDE THE VISIBLE

impulse of the possible

an elliptical traverse of 20th century art.

in, of, and from the feminine.

edited by M. Catherine De Zegher. 

front cover:

Anna Maria Maiolino, 

Entrevidas (on the margin of life), Installation, photo: Hanzy Stakl. 1981

The plane of composition through which articulation eventually emerges is populated by the thought of the work, its inner rhythm. Deleuze and Guattari calls this inner rhythm a block of sensation.. Blocks of sensation are forces that compose thought's durational attitude.

Deleuze ,Guattari. 1994.

Rhythm is determined not by the length of the edited pieces, but by the pressure of the time that runs through them.

Sculpting in Time, Tarkovsky.

For Tarkovsky, editing from within seeks to create space-time, not simply reproduce it. To edit from within is to compose with the more-than of language's actual articulation. It is to work with language's pre articulated virtual force, directing enunciation such that its virtual effects are felt within actual expression.

For Amanda Baggs, communication through words remains inadequate to the singular experiences of sensation the world calls forth.

Thought is a proposition for Feeling-In-Motion.

Thought is more than a form taking of words.

Words are an extra component of the experience of articulation, not its final form. Words cannot fully express experience's complexity.

Language must be called forth as a layering-with of the affective tonality of expression.

An inquiry and its translation that transduces the event of language's becoming with sensation.

Language does not replace the sensual exploration of the relational environment, it moves with it, becoming one more technique for composition.

The Relational Cusp : 

Of Becoming-Events-Objects-

Movements Expressing The Force Of  A Relational Environment.

This sensory becoming is a form of thought.

Being/Becoming in a constant conversation with every aspect of my environment, reaching/reacting physically to all parts of my surroundings.

Artworks/Art working to create a relational nexus that can expose the world at the incipience of its sensory becoming.

Relationscapes : Erin Manning.