Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. 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.

Monday, 27 April 2026

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.


Friday, 22 September 2023

Explorations around dwelling/site based ontologies : Site/Life-specific/animate installations.

Outpost 240123

Harleston 170923


Speculative/Creative /Geographies/around Moving Bodies of Thought.

Rethinking The Animate, re-animating thought, Tim Ingold. 


Overlay, Contemporary Art and The Art of Prehistory, Lucy R. Lippard.

Homes and Graves and Gardens. 


The Architecture Of Luis Barragan, Emilio Ambasz.

Intimately bound to Barragan's sensitivity for colour is his animistic feeling for matter. In a culture exhausted and irreparably fragmented, the walls surrounding Barragan's gardens are perhaps the last defences to preserve centuries of thought and emotion.













Explorations around dwelling/site based ontologies.


Dwelling/Person/Environment/Engagements.


The simple fluid 'flat' making ontologies of bringing/bonding clay forms together.


Worlding/Water/Performative/Intraventions.


A Practice of Transformational Modalities.



The Processual Character of Form.


Organic life, as I envisage it, is active rather than reactive, the creative unfolding of an entire field of relations within which beings emerge and take on the forms they do, each in relation to the others. Life is the very process wherein forms are generated and held in place.

Ingold.


For Ingold, there is no environment without the folding and enmeshment that is the process of life. Organisms are not folded in on themselves and surrounded by an 'environment'. Instead organisms are points of growth of environment, and whose relations are rhizoidal; and the environment is better understood as a domain of entanglement.

 


Making/Curriculum/Dwelling/Landscape/Place.


Re-imagining Education.

Brockwood Park School.


Understandings of place and agency.

Development/Growth/Knowledge/Skill.


Studies in Philosophy and Education.

Discussions around epistemology and ontology.


Improving Human-Environment Relations.


Dwelling.

Rethinking the animate, re-animating thought.

Tim Ingold.


Ingold insists on a flat,continuous and processual ontology of dwelling and becoming.




Curriculum Making as the Enactment of Dwelling in Places.

Empirical Research.

Participation.


Poetics of Space.

Reverberations/Dwelling.

Gaston Bachelard.



Why is everything we think we know about ecology wrong?


Being Ecological.

Timothy Morton.


Architecture has the capacity to be inspiring, engaging and life-enhancing. But why is it that architectural schemes which look good on the drawing board or the computer screen can be so disappointing 'in the flesh'?


The Eyes Of The Skin.

Architecture and the Senses.

Juhani Pallasmaa.


Marking The Line.

Ceramics and Architecture.


Formal/Monumental/Archetypal Vessels.

The giving jug/the receiving bowl.


The making by pressing clay into a mould and then manually hollowing and adjusting the form is clearly a sculptural one-off procedure as opposed to industrial repetition. However, the obsessive working of the surface- post-firing pigments, hand painted layers and final waxing- is reminiscent of the prototyping of industrial design and automotive design products in a mimesis of an envisaged perfected shell.

The Present in the Past, Eric Parry.


  


Site/Life-specific installations.


Building a bridge between ceramics and architecture.

Shared ground, both pursuits are primarily occupied with the use of space, scale, volume and materials.


220923

Requiem: 

Drawn to that moment.

Thoughts on disappearances opposed as assemblages/John Berger.


False Hope/Short Movie/Laura Marling.

Wonderful World/Nocturama/Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.

Atom and Cell/Snow Borne Sorrow/Nine Horses.

The Faster I Breathe The Further I Go/The Wind/P J Harvey.

Balamory Death Chant/Songs for Lonely Americans/Sir Vincent Lone.

The Temple of Love (1992)/Touched By The Hand Of Ofra Haza/The Sisters Of Mercy.

Ruins/When Shall This Bright Day Begin/Josef Van Wissem, Zola Jesus.

Fall/Some Ancient Misty Morning/Jackie Leven.