Showing posts with label environments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environments. Show all posts

Saturday, 7 December 2024

Biosphere/Archipelago : Sun Drawing/Cyanotype/Spheres of Activity

Bioscleave/Blue Particle Cloud/Diagram.

Biosphere/Archipelago : Sun Drawing/Cyanotype


The sun has gone mad and stripped the earth of its ionosphere. For decades blasting radiation has poured upon earth, melting the polar caps and turning permafrost into streams, rivers, oceans. Huge deltas have been built, lakes formed, seas have risen.

The Drowned World, JG Ballard.

blueprints, cyanotype, alternative printing processes, light drawings, 

precision and indeterminacy, human form, ecology, 

environments, contemporary art practice

















ARCHITECTURAL Body

An ORGANISM that PERSONS

Gins and Arakawa 2002


Although the human condition is a crisis condition if ever there was one, few individuals and societies act with the dispatch a state of emergency requires. The fact that the human condition is a crises condition gets routinely covered up, with culture invariably functioning to obscure how dire the condition is and to float it as bearable


If organisms form themselves as persons by uptaking the environment, then they involve not only bodies but domains, spheres of activity and influence


Start by thinking of architecture as a tentative constructing toward a holding in place. Architecture's holding in place occurs within and as part of a prevailing atmospheric condition that others routinely call biosphere but which we, feeling the need to stress its dynamic nature, have renamed bioscleave

Procedural Architecture/Architectural Body

Gins and Arakawa


The role of architecture as a tool for researching the body-environment towards the implementation of these considerations is paramount

The goal of an experimental teaching and learning space based on architectural procedures would be that the process of design and construction would allow students/staff to rethink, re-imagine and enact the curriculum

An Arakawa and Gins Experimental Teaching Space/A Feasibility Study 2013

Jondi Keane


Contexts:

Practice-based research , Research , Studio practice

Artforms:

Painting , Mixed media , Drawing

Tags:

Bioscleave, Architectural Research, Arakawa and Gins, 

cyanotype, diagram, collage, texts, current concerns, contemporary practice




Cyanotype from a site drawing, Space for Peace, Winchester Cathedral


Shroud

Richard Stillman

Yard and Metre Event, Winchester


As the marks resonated, did they sound true?

Could we tolerate margins of error or latitude?

Is there strength in that built by blue ink?

It is hard to see without certainty.


Why have they flown, gathered, shrouded?

Is the date significant? A memorial?

Or is it white noise reverberating,

striking parallels, refusing focus, insisting?


The shape of the cross is still distinct

but opening out, refusing definition,

never quite caught as an intention,

pinned on dimensions it wants to refuse.


When objects or atmospheres collide energy is transferred, a new force may be created. And, as forensic scientists can attest, when objects touch they exchange traces, each leaves something of itself with the other.

This is why artists enjoy collaborating. Working with another artist can give a jolt of inspiration, a spark of creative thinking, a surge of new skill, the stimulus for a new work. And the experience will leave its mark in some way on each individual’s practice.

The specific ‘collision’ may also result in a work which has its own integrity, which does not belong’ to either party and where their particular contributions merge indistinguishably - in effect fusion takes place.

This is the thinking behind 10 days | Creative Collisions and for The Yard artists and Hyde Writers it was the ideal excuse to come together, to let the shockwaves flow and see what new possibilities emerged. As with all the best creative practice, in science or in art, this has been an experiment, it involved risk, trust and open minds. Whether or not the outcomes are fully resolved they will be filled with potential - and with potency.

Stephen Boyce


Contexts:

Arts in health , Community , Publication , Socially Engaged , Writing

Artforms:

Painting , Performance , Photography , Printmaking , Text

Tags:

Space for Peace, 10 Days, Creative Collisions, Winchester Yard Artists, 

Hyde Writers, collaborations. visual art, poetry

Tuesday, 6 August 2024

The Architecture and Analogies found in Interior Spaces : Analogue Processes in Photography


 Analogue Processes in Photography 

"The imprint of light on emulsion"

"The alchemy of circumstance and chemistry"


Tacita Dean : Filmworks, Kodak Analogue, page 96/97


Analogue : On Zoe Leonard and Tacita Dean. Margaret Iversen 2012

It is only now, with the rise of digitalization and the near-obsolescence of traditional technology, that we are becoming fully aware of the distinctive character of analogue photography. This owl-of-Minerva-like appreciation of the analogue has prompted photographic art practices that mine the medium for its specificity. Indeed, one could argue that analogue photography has only recently become a medium in the fullest sense of the term, for it is only when artists refuse to switch over to digital photographic technologies that the question of what constitutes analogue photography as a medium is selfconsciously posed. While the benefits of digitalization—in terms of accessibility, dissemination, speed, and efficiency—are universally acknowledged, some people are also beginning to reflect on what is being lost in this great technological revolution

http://murrayguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Iversen-Critical-Inquiry-36-4-Summer-20121.pdf

Translucency/Waverley Abbey, (Harold Brakspear FSA, courtesy of Damien Blower)
Pinhole Photography, Winchester Discovery Centre and Library.

In Solarized Light : The Unbound Body #2
Photogram from Victorian corset.

Concrete Surfaces : Anatomy #2
Dark Gothic Sensuality
Contact Photography
Science and Art

Alternative Processes, Tate Modern.
Photography and Architectural Space.
Cyanotype from Pinhole Camera

Clay Impression : Form and Segments
Surrounding Objects : Critical Proximity ~2
Research Material
Photographic Drawings

PETER ZUMTHOR                 ATMOSPHERES 

Architectural Environments
Surrounding Objects
2006 Birkhauser, Basel, Switzerland.

Geodesic Drawings : Observatory #2

Core, Periphery and Semiperiphery : Spatial Drawings #1

EMULSION : Photographic Landscape

A few feet below the ground a thick line of rock would mark us off from all that had gone before. Condensed into that six-inch sooty layer would be our cities, vehicles, roads, bridges, weapons. Also, all sorts of chemical compounds not found in the previous geological record.

Ian McEwan : The Children Act,  2014.


Reverberations from excavated land #1 (Excavated Shells)
Reverberations from excavated land #5 (Leper Graves)

The Leper Hospital : Anthropomorphic Geography/Landscape on Photographic Ground
Against SPACE : Place-Movement-Knowledge

"I wish to argue, in this chapter against the notion of space. Of all the terms we use to describe the world we inhabit, it is the most abstract, the most empty, the most detached from the realities of life and experience."

Tim Ingold

Environments
Land
Earth
Pastures
Country
Ground
Landscape
Indoors
Open
Sky

Air

Excavated Landscapes : Morn Hill #2





























2017



Tuesday, 26 October 2021

Sociological Organisation/Groups : Theoretical Propositions/Transactive Memory

Theoretical Propositions (Groups) around The Abbey
Collage and Life Drawings

Transactive  Memory Development in Virtual Teams

There is no theoretical requirement that groups exist only in face-to-face environments. In fact, McGrath's definition of a group - an entity that interacts, is interdependent, mutually aware, with a past and an anticipated future (McGrath, J.E. Groups: Interact and Performance.1984 :6) - makes no mention of the form that interaction must take.

Information Processing and Performance in Traditional and Virtual Teams
The Role of Transactive Memory
Terri Griffith, Margaret A. Neale,

DSC_0010 Reading Room : Collage/Waverley Abbey
DSC_3153 Life Drawing
DSC_3157 Life Drawing
DSC_3148 Life Drawing