Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Wednesday, 15 July 2026

Inside The Horizon : Terminus/Fields/Landscapes of Inquiry : A Spatial Practice/Between the Silence


We fly to the other side of space and of time.

Carlo Rovelli~Dante

White Holes. 2023




Terminus.

Taking form always begins with the terminus. 

The terminus is not an end point, but the energy of a beginning. 

The terminus kick-starts the process of articulation. 

There is no causal finitude here: 

We never know what becomes of a beginning.

The terminus is a force of thought towards articulation.

Erin Manning.


The Apparent Chaos of Stone (8.36)

Moonchild (5.40)

Travis and Fripp

Between the Silence.

Theo Travis : Alto Flute/Soprano Sax.

Robert Fripp : Guitar/Soundscapes


Outpost 010223


















A Spatial Practice.

Bring things to life, creative entanglements in a world of materials.

Art/Ontology/Education/Philosophy.


Creative practice is a meshwork of what shall I do next?

Tim Ingold.


Things in general, like the mind-leak.


Iteration, following the forces/flows.

Organism-Person-Environment

Gins/Arakawa.


Improvisation is to join with the work or to meld with it, one ventures from home on the thread of a tune.


Lines of Flight

Lines of Becoming

Critically these lines do not connect.


A line of becoming is not defined by the points it connects, or by the points that compose it.

On the contrary it passes between points, it comes up through the middle.

A becoming is neither one nor two, nor the relation of the two.

It is the in-between, the line of flight running perpendicular to both.

Deleuze and Guattari.



Brockwood Teaching Academy. 

Back To Free School, Kilquhanity.


Curriculum Making, education for improved human-environment relations.


For to live we must dwell in the world, and to dwell we must already relate to its constituents.

Meaning inheres in these relationships.




Raveningham Sculptural Array

Solargraphy/Land Markings.


Performative Intraventions




Hungate 

Water

Site-specific research and artworks.


Water : A Phenomenal Lens

Steven Holl.


We start from the fluid character of the life process, wherein boundaries are sustained only thanks to the flow of materials across them.


Life is all about relations that hold a being in place, an erotic ecology of matter and desire.




Outpost Gallery

Mentorship Programme.

Sunday, 14 June 2026

Spatial Bodies : Visual Art Materialisms~Processual Workings



















Drawing iterations into the ritual body~site~time

Body Assemblage/Diffracted Material #1-3 : Composition~Dissolution

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

https://russellmoreton.tumblr.com

Artist's Statement. 2012

UK based visual fine artist working in alternative photographic processes, installation and drawing. Interested in using "Spatial Practices" to inquire into architectural space through fine art and performative interventions. Practicing craftsman in architectural glass and ceramics.

Russell Moreton, Winchester. 


Monday, 11 May 2026

FORMWORK / ENCLOSURES / ITERATIONS / THINKING FORMS~The Minor Gesture : Material Agency as Cognitive Scaffolding

Making~Intensified Surfaces of a Transdisciplinary Spatial Inquiry.

https://axisweb.org/artist/russellmoreton


The 'exigencies' of the situation at hand.

Tim Ingold, MAKING. 


Clay becomes a procedural matter of concern(s).

Spatial Intelligence/Architectures

Abject (ion) Body and Matter in Process/Processual Relations.

For Manning, Arakawa and Gins, the challenge is that the procedures of a procedural architecture (its architecting) must continuously be reinvented to stay apace with the architecting of experience. And this procedure must be crafted with care, it must be relevant to the conditions already at hand.

Dress Becomes Body in The Minor Gesture, Erin Manning. 2016 














Indexical Drawing : Pencil, Wax and iron oxide on paper. 240x150 1008

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


IMMATERIAL / REPETITION / SINGULARITY

ENCLOSURES / ITERATIONS / THINKING FORMS

MINIMALIST SPACES / INTERVALS, tuning objects to construct environments

Mediating the experience of LANDSCAPE

SITE / COLLAGE COMPONENTS working/walking, developing a creative spatial syntax COLOUR AS CONDUIT / PERCEPTUAL ENVIRONS / CRAFT MEDIA / IMPROVISATION PIERCED  DAPPLED NATURAL LIGHT

DIFFERENTIATED SHADOW / SURFACE

EXTRAORDINARY MATERIALS / TECTONICS AND TEXTILES INDEXICAL / GESTALT  VISUAL PERCEPTION

NETWORKS / RESOURCES / AGENCY for the potential of BUILDING SCAFFOLDS / GAUZE / POCHE solids of a building/architectural plan ABSENCES / INTERSECTIONS / GRIDS / MESHES / SPRAYS / MOTIFS ACTUALITY










Without opposition nothing is revealed,
No image appears in a clear mirror If one side is not darkend.
Jacob Bohme, De tribus principiis 1619.
Everything is interrelated and suffers when it acts, so too the purest human thought. Holderlin, 1798.



Getting Lost, Walking whilst deep in thought/embodiment in the environment Between PLACE and SITE

Walking creates its own feedback loop, The Journey, The Return,

The specific, Here and Now

Psychogeography, Dossier, Forensic Study, Inquiry.

Spatial Abstractions : Reflexivity on Reflection. Embodiment on Experiential Subjectivity

 LANDSCAPES Constituted by creative practice

Walks as erasures, sedimentation, (Gardiner on painting)

Quotidian/Everyday Interests, Complexities of Contemporary Life. Ambients, Phenomenas, Objects, Subjectivities,

Everyday aesthetics, heuristic practices.


RAVENINGHAM THEMES : Working Notes


New Futures for Architecture Leon van Schaik

Spatial intelligence builds our mental space. Sensing Spaces

Architecture Reimagined Oak-Framed Buildings. Rupert Newman

Heidegger for Architects

Adam Sharr 


MAKING : ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Tim Ingold

Touching objects, feeling materials 

The Cathedral and the Laboratory


A Hut of One's Own

Anne Cline

Solar Pavilion

Alison and Peter Smithson Architecture is not made with the brain 

The Parallel of Art and Life

Aesthetics about Perception Poetics about Production

HERZOG & DEMEURON NATURAL HISTORY

My studio is a piece of architecture that is silent. Speculative Architecture

On The Aesthetics of Herzog & De Meuron 


The Thinking Hand

Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture

Juhani Pallasmaa

The Architecture of Natural Light. Henry Plummer

Peter Zumthor

Hortus Conclusus Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

The Potentials of Spaces

The Theory and Practice of Scenography and Performance. Alison Oddey, Christine White

See Yourself Sensing Redefining Human Perception. Madeline Schwartzman

Collage and Architecture. Jennifer A. E. Shields

COLLAGE

Assembling Contemporary Art. Sally O'Reilly 

Construction/Abstraction Body/Identity Environments/Geographies

Indexical

Absences

Actuality Immaterial Architectural Sensing Surfaces,

Textures

Dimensions, Sprays, Trace











Dwelling, Reverberations, Epiphanic Instant, Gaston Bachelard.

Repetition, Empirical Experiences

Forms, Pavilion, Hut, Shelter, simple enclosure

Minimalist, tuning objects, sequences to construct/de-construct environments 

Reflexive Surfaces into architectural presence

Art as indeterminate, able to arrest perceptions into different states/becomings 

Site, undoing of place. 

Gauze/Filtered Light/Phenomena

Gesture of the work, its situation,

Meshwork. The drawing grid, making of a proposition into space.

Cyan, Sky Blue, dappled light, membrane, responding to the weather/locality


AA Pavilion Project,

Its about learning through making, being involved in the process, the installation and its reception, dislocating contextual barriers.

Ephemeral Architectures, AA Document/Project, Prizeman

Immaterial Architecture : Waverley Pavilion Building The Drawing

The drawing as analogue allows more subtle relations, of technique, material and process, to develop between drawing and building.

Immaterial Architecture The Illegal Architect Jonathan Hill

Oak 

Tree 

Oil

Paper

Plaster

Rust 

Sgratfito 

Silence 

Sound 

Steel 

Television 

Weather

Frosted Light

Index of immaterial architectures

TRANSPARENCY : LITERAL AND PHENOMENAL. Colin Rowe, Robert Slutzky

Interactions of the Abstract Body. Josiah McElheny

Object Lesson

Interactive Abstract Body (Square) The Spatial Body (After Fontana)

Tracing Eisenman

Stan Allen

Indexical Characters FABRIC=MASS+ FORM

Alan Chandler

The interest in fabric formwork is in its deployment in a building process, which is faster than conventional formwork. Fabric formwork is inherently more sustainable due to the minimising of both concrete and shuttering, and more radically, allows the constructor to intervene in the process of casting even as the cast is taking place.

ANTI OBJECT Kengo Kuma

We are composed of matter and live in the midst of matter. Our objective should not be to renounce matter, but to search for a form of matter other than objects. 

What that form is called- ARCHITECTURE, GARDENS< TECHNOLOGY is not important. ReThinking Matereriality

The engagement of mind with the material world. Elizabeth DeMarrais, Chris Gosden. Colin Renfrew

The Affordances of Things

Towards a Theory of Material Engagement Aesthetics, Intelligence and Emotions Relationality of Mind and Matter

Material Agency

Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach. Carl Knappett, Lambros Malafouris

At The Potter's Wheel: An Argument for Material Agency

We should replace our view of cognition as residing inside the potter's head, with that of cognition enacted at the potter's wheel.

The Neglected Networks of Material Agency : Artefacts, Pictures and Texts 

Material Agency as Cognitive Scaffolding

The Cognitive Life of Things




Material Engagement and the Extended Mind. Lambros Malafouris, Colin Renfrew

Minds, Things and Materiality. Michael Wheeler

Communities of Things and Objects : A Spatial Perspective Carl Knappett


People make space, and space contains people

Imagining the Cognitive Life of Things. Edwin Hutchins

Things and Their Embodied Environments






Architectures for Perception

Structuring Perception through Material Artifacts. Charles Goodwin





 

Sunday, 8 March 2026

Speculative Learning Environment : Study~Studio : The Library/Hidden Curriculum

Hidden Curriculum #2 by Russell Moreton





Study~Studio : A Philosophy of Solitude~Making

Hidden Curriculum , a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.
26/10/2013

Inquiry into learning environments through contemporary art based practices.
Speculative Learning Environment : Russell Moreton.
Re- Imagining Education, Brockwood Park School. 

a thousand plateaus
Deleuze, Guattari

Assemblage
Becoming
Body Without Organs
Nomad
Rhizome
Smooth Space
State
War Machine

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.




Monday, 5 May 2025

Drawing/Sociology/Art : Figuration/Flesh and the Body.

Drawing/ Being Part of Space and Time : A DISPERSION
Antony Gormley

Drawing is the most immediate way of making your ideas, sensations, and information explicit.
Euan Uglow

What do we look for from the nude today?
Drawing/Man : Oskar Schlemmer

The use of pure line compels the artist to a process of abstraction.
Energy/Tension : The Social Form of Living Flesh

To create a new intellectual image of reality

Line has an autonomous relationship with surface (a rhythmic lineation)
Rhythm is the means by which all kinds of movement are delineated.
It follows that the physiological movement of the body is rhythmically organised.

The figuration of the contemporary body through abstractions and representations.









































INTERIOR : Environment, physical and psychological realms.

INTERIORITY : SELF.

The Picture Plane
Composition, elements and scale
Context-Content-Beginnings
Relationships- Figure- Ground, becomes psychological state of a figure both becoming and entropic

All pictorial representation is an intellectual and visual organisation.
Flesh follows the physiological movement of the body and is rhythmically organised/balanced.

ANTHROPOMETRICS
THE FIGURE IN SPACE
Performative, Sociological ; Structure and Agency (Klein)(Duality)
Measurement, Reach/Movement/Proportion

Making relationships between the spatial figure and the spatial arrangements of the picture plane. Bringing the spatial figures into the system of axes of the picture space.
Schlemmer's plane and spatial prospects contain architectonic motifs, which are presented orthogonally or in exaggerated perspective.

Anthropomorphic Collage
Morn Hill, chalk grave/leper hospital
Joseph Beuys/Reg Butler







































Deleuze, Francis Bacon
Haptic Vision/Colour Space
Light is time, but space is colour.

Carnality/Sensation/Logic/Colour Space
Entropic/Seeing/Haptic/Violence