Tensions and Correlations : Wrapped~Tensioned and Bandaged Bodies

Wrapped~Tensioned and Bandaged Bodies

Tension is what happens between bodies.

Correlation is what allows those tensions to become relations.

Ecology of Asperities : Notes on a Particular Spatial Practice

Matter(s) of Space~Surfacing

https://independent.academia.edu/RussellMoreton

The surface is where the body records its relations.

Scoring → tension becomes visible.

Wrapping → relation becomes operative.

Bandaging → vulnerability becomes perceptible.

Refractory layering → endurance becomes possible.

Together they produce the body.

The ceramic body is also encountered through acts of wrapping, tensioning and bandaging. White brushed refractory materials form protective layers across the surface, recalling earlier propositions around the bandaged body: a body marked by vulnerability, repair, protection and the forces acting upon it.

The refractory layer introduces a particular material correspondence. It protects the ceramic body from the extreme conditions of firing while simultaneously preparing it to undergo transformation. Protection therefore does not remove the body from force; it enables its passage through force.

The surface becomes a place where these forces are gathered.

Scored lines crossing the white areas establish temporary demarcations across the body. They can be understood less as drawn images than as traces of tension: lines through which pressure, resistance, division and movement become perceptible. The scoring interrupts the apparent stability of the coated surface, making visible something of the forces passing across and through the body.

Wrapping extends this condition. Wire, cloth and layered materials bind separate ceramic elements while also producing tension between them. The body is held together, but not resolved. Its parts remain perceptibly separate, caught within a temporary arrangement of pressure, restraint and correspondence.

Wrapped~Tensioned and Bandaged Bodies therefore describes a ceramic condition in which protection and exposure, binding and permeability, vulnerability and endurance remain active together.

The bandage does not simply repair the body.

It records that the body has been subject to force.

The wrapping does not simply hold the body together.

It makes tension perceptible.

The refractory layer does not prevent transformation.

It allows the body to enter the fire.

refractory layer ~ protective skin ~ bandage ~ accumulated surface ~ preparation for fire

force → relation → body

Tensions and Correlations is the conceptual proposition. Wrapped~Tensioned describes the material operation, and Bandaged Bodies brings the work back into corporeal and affective territory.

Overspilling Forms : Unnoticed Displacements/Tensions and Correlations~The Silent Transformations

 The Fluidity Of Life.

(or how one is already the other)

The notion of silent transformations encountered in the corner of a page. How will these unnoticed displacements, the silent transformations one day be considered.

Francois Jullien

The Silent Transformations

Things Superimposed~Dispositive~Spill

Overspilling Forms~Sympathy~Abject(ion)

Architecture In Abjection

Bodies, Spaces And Their Relations.

Zuzana Kovar

Gaston Bachelard.

John Piper.

Lucio Fontana.

https://seagullbooks.org/products/the-silent-transformations

To grow up is to grow old. With time, great love can turn into indifference. And even the most earnest revolution can imperceptibly become its own system of privilege and corruption—just as global warming has slowly modified the climate by degrees. These are examples of the kind of quiet, unseen changes that François Jullien examines in The Silent Transformations, in which he compares Western and Eastern—specifically Chinese—ways of thinking about time and processes of change.

Jullien argues that our failure to notice the effects of cumulative changes over time is due to Western thought’s foundations in classical Greek philosophies of being, which encourage thinking in terms of determined forms and neglect the indeterminable nature of the transition taking place. In contrast, Chinese thought, having a greater sense of the fluidity of life, offers a more flexible way of understanding everyday transformations and provides insightful perspectives from which to consider our relation to history and nature. In particular, a Chinese approach, argues Jullien, allows us to discover that there may be occasions when it is more efficacious to yield to situations than to confront them head-on.

In The Silent Transformations, Jullien resituates Western philosophy by examining it in the light of traditions of thought that have developed from fundamentally different concepts and contexts. Jullien here opens a space for a new way of thinking, and this refreshing book will stimulate the interest of scholars in both Western and Eastern philosophy.