The Sleeper Awakes : Veiled Melancholy/Book Narratives : Film Collages. #3

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.

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"Spatial turn" The increased attention to matters of space, place and mapping in literary and cultural studies, as well as in social theory, philosophy, and other disciplinary fields.

Spatiality, Robert T. Tally Jr. Routledge 2013.

 The Politics of Architecture : Theorizing through speculative spatial practices.

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

"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 yielding 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

Reading Project/Emergent Evolutions/Small Perceptions : Waverley Abbey/Architectural Body

Relationscapes : Erin Manning.

Perceptions in Folding.

Contrast is the activity of foregrounding or backgrounding that makes certain qualities stand out, creating what Whitehead calls emergent evolutions.

Contrast in Whitehead does not mean the equal juxtaposition of two extremes. It is 'that particularity of conjoint unity that arises from the realized togetherness of eternal objects' (Whitehead 1929/1978, 229).

Emergent evolutions are the individuation of relational fields composed by the activity of small perceptions folding.

Small perceptions are like what Arakawa and Madeline Gins call imaginary landing sites.

Small perceptions are as much the passage from one perception to another as they are components of each perception.

Deleuze.

Dwelling in Brockwood/Kilquhanity : Drawing isn't a matter of tools but perception-a form of engagement.

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Matters of Concern.

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

Creative entanglements in a world of materials.

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Improvisation is drawing.

Drawing isn't a matter of tools but perception-a form of engagement.

Roni Horn.

Kilquhanity Free School.

Mission statement to enjoy childhood.

Kilquhanity promotes a playful difference amongst the locality.

Back To Freeschool : Drawing Out Of The Archive.

At Freeschool I turned a dwelling place into both a site of introspection and a social construction.

By living together as a social group, learning by the practical 'doing' from which to extract a sense of practical wisdom.

Useful work, promotes a sense of being amongst the social group, of an equality of joined forces for the benefit of Kilquhanity.

Kids encouraged to build camps around the grounds, personal and inter-personal temporary structures that reinforce our sense of 'passing through'.

Kilquhanity seems to suit the individual with confidence and those with good social skills, Architects, Film Makers, Craftspeople, others have found it difficult to rejoin society.

Brockwood Park School

Our consciousness is not actually yours or mine, it is the consciousness of humanity evolved, grown, accumulated through many, many centuries, when one realises this our responsibility becomes extraordinarily important.

J. Krishnamurti.

Projective Speculations, through questioning and research, asking ourselves, how are our intraventions capable of generating previously non-existent possibilities or ideas?

How can architectural projections become tools for engagement in the actual transformation of the world, and to what extent can they be tools for thinking as well as for the articulation, interrogation, and challenging of discourse.

Intraventions in live situations are the main form of engagement, we take part from the inside, in the construction and articulation of 'sites'. We do this by using expanded conditioned, ecologies, localities and actors within a phenomenon in which we operate 'an architecting' as responsibly as possible.

Oren Lieberman, Alberto Altes.

Raveningham Site Visit/Walking in the Landscape.

Ephemeral-Site-Drawings.

The Choreographic Object in The Lanscape.

Land/Demarcations/Spaces/Occurrences with others

Filtered light pieces/land markers

Field Studies/Gathering/Dwelling/Reading/Light/Time/Media

A Phenomenal Lens.

Water/glass dishes/construction, floating/submerged objects/.Cyanotype Print.

Sculptural Array/Sky Watcher/Imaginative Spaces.

Apparatus for Solargraphy.

Mast/Conductor/Transponder,

Hungate Study Day.

Corporeal Annotations.

Reading/Materials/Substances/Phenomena

Water/Light/Architecture/Vessel/Place/Canvas/Filtered Light/Ceramic/Clay

Undercroft Norwich.

Plaster/Slab Components/Assemblages/Forms

Discursive Drawing, Documents/Architectures of Entanglements : Enchantment/Somantic Affects/Assemblage and Texts

The dynamic, and hence temporal, nature of space means that spatial production must be understood as part of an evolving sequence, with no fixed start or finish, and that multiple actors contribute at various stages. Spatial Agency, Jeremy Till.

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Exploratory, Textual Entanglements, Perceptual Relationships.

DSC_8759 Discursive Documents : Enchantment/Somantic Affects, Jane Bennett Assemblage : Aesthetic Convergence Cultivation Field/Vibrant Matter Becoming complicit with materials Realist Magic, Objects, Ontology, Causality. Timothy Morton. 2013 Matter and Desire, an erotic ecology. Andreas Weber. 2017 Vibrant Matter, a political ecology of things. Jane Bennett. 2010 Therese Oulton Paintings and new digital prints Lines of Flight. 2006 Being Alive Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description Tim Ingold. 2011 MAKING vibrant gaps/assemblages between the texts/images/objects and everyday things LANDSCAPES OF AFFECTIVE AESTHETIC ATTRACTION MATERIALS THEMSELVES become the TOOLS of PERCEPTION Enchantment from the potential of things. The Fabric of thoughts The invisible within the visible (energy,magic,causality) RELATEDNESS, connected to the Place and Function of Things within a Field. Texts, form their own contexts/reflexivity, breaking down phenomena into meaning, conclusions and critique, they render phenomena and its psychic information redundant. We think we know how we should feel sociologically, yet in doing so we deny ourselves the direct affectiveness of people and objects that can provide different perceptual relationships. EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE=ECOLOGY Lygia Clark : A Space open to time. Cornelia H. Butler The World is a Collage Collage and montage are quintessential techniques in modern and contemporary art and filmmaking. Collage combines pictorial motifs and fragments from disconnected origins into a new synthetic entity which casts new roles and meanings to the parts. It suggests new narratives, dialogues, juxtapositions and temporal durations. Its elements lead double-lives; the collaged ingredients are suspended between their originary essences and the new roles assigned to them by the poetic ensemble. Juhani Pallasmaa Hapticity and Time Notes on a fragile Architecture The Perception of the Environment Essay in Livelihood, dwelling and skill Tim Ingold See Yourself Sensing Redefining Human Perception Madeline Schwartzman STILLNESS IN A MOBILE WORLD Bissell, Fuller

Spatial Agency : Lefebvre's redefinition of space

Its production is a shared enterprise.

Social space is dynamic space; its production continues over time and is not fixed to a single moment of completion. This dynamic inevitably shifts the focus of spatial attention away from the static objects of display that constitute the foreground of so much architectural production, and moves it onto the continuous cycle of spatial production, and to all the people and processes that go into it.

Social space is intractably political space, in so much as people live out their lives in this space, and so one has to be continuously alert to the effects of that space on those lives. 

Spatial Agency, Other ways of Doing Architecture, Jeremy Till