Showing posts with label human bodies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label human bodies. Show all posts

Sunday, 14 June 2026

Assemblages of Event : Visual Art+Spatial Practices/Human Bodies/Spatial Bodies

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The Everyday.


ANTONIO  He misses not much.

SEBASTIAN  No, he doth but mistake the truth totally.

The Tempest.


The Transparency Of The Morning.

One never sees what is always seen.

The immediate, just like the simple, the natural and the ordinary, does not perceive itself.





Substances : Artworks, rituals of purity and impurity.

Demarcations/Systems/Fields of order and contravention.









Material Margins/Transitional  Spatial Spaces.


Knowing that this clarity which has sprung up will soon dissipate.

Morning coincides with the emergence, giving back a possibility of springing up, of rising before the day has started to spread out.






For Jullien, it is possible to gain access to it only as we gain access to the immediacy of the day from the night. A world in which living is not right away (in which respect metaphysics is correct) it is necessary to cause it to rise. But without again being concealed by whatever has been entrusted with revealing it.

Life, is devoted from the outset to what its 'end' might be (telos) in the full sense of the Greek word.

Telos, at once a conclusion, aim, perfection, abandoning all the preceding 'between of life' to indifference.

The Way- Without demarcation, rather a way of viability by which the continuum of life is renewed.

The Philosophy of Living.

Francois Jullien.


Developing Open Subjectivities/BwO : Visual Art, Winchester. 2006.

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Bodies are conditioned by architectural surrounds.

Architectural Body.

Reversible Destiny. 

Arakawa and Gins.


The transformative body, creates bodily interiors/relations that can open up to become productive alliances in which using spatial bodies, (other than the ideal types) they can be brought into new affiliations with systems outside of their boundaries. 



Creating an affective intensity.

Human Bodies/Spatial Bodies.


Relationscapes/Bodies/Events.

Organism-Person-Environment


Event-Space-Movement, superimposed over one another creates disjunction(Tschumi) and assemblages (Deleuze).


Drawing/Beginning a dialogue with matter/material between human bodies and spatial bodies.


Simple articulations (frottage) with the immensity and immediacy of the everyday.


Abstracted-Diagrammatic-Inhabitations.

Paintings/Drawings/Sculptures/Instalations.


Francis Bacon.

The Logic of Sensation. 1981, 2003.

Deleuze.




Reliquaries/Enclosures of Spatial Silences and of Light/Air.

A type of labyrinth with a momentary impossibility of escape (soul cages)  these are minoritarian architectures (Deleuze).


Real Spaces for Fictional Events.

A becoming architecture to provoke potentials to occur.










On the everyday, abjection of the human body.


The Clinic.

Bathrooms are spaces associated with the clean body and simultaneously with the dirty body. They are spaces that allow for hygienic evacuation of our excretions, they order our un-containment.


At the end of the day , the curtain is hung and there is a certain visceral repulsion to the damp curtain hanging in the window. To the drying of our bodily excretions and their gradual visual indiscernibility with the fabric. So no one knows what the fabric has absorbed.


All that remains is us, inhaling ourselves as air passes through the curtain and into our lungs. A re-absorption of our expulsions.


Zuzana Kovar.



The work of Deleuze and Guattari as a whole provides a way of approaching all bodies void of a dualistic framework. In particular for Kovar, Deleuze's work specifically touches on abject(ion) through his notion of an open and transformative or spasmodic body, which he discusses in the work of Francis Bacon.



Figure at a Washbasin. 1976

Francis Bacon.


Event-spaces in the paintings of Francis Bacon.

The Body-Figure/Figural-Event.


From the start, the figure has been a body and the body has a place within the enclosure of the painting from which the figure expels itself, gymnastically on the fields of colour. Is this the event of a body escaping itself into a figure, of the body in Deleuzean terms of trying to escape any notion of identity/form of repression?    


For Bacon, the body-figure exerts an intense motionless effort upon itself in order to escape down the blackness of the drain. This plexus (the body as plexus) its effort or waiting for a spasm, becomes for Bacon a painterly approximation of horror or abjection.


Paintings that create spasms that re-order the human organism, in order to escape it, by growing bodily organs as prostheses, or by allowing the enclosure of painterly space and contour to become an apparatus, an extension of the body-figure-figuration.  


The body waits to escape itself in a very precise manner, to escape itself via a spasm, the movement of the figure towards the material structure, towards the field of colour.


For Deleuze, the body repeatedly attempts to escape the organism, the particular organisation of organs that may be understood as constituting the subject the 'I', for Deleuze the body attempts to escape the 'I'. It is not 'I' who attempt to escape from my body, it is the body that attempts to escape from itself by means of, a spasm. But the body is not simply waiting for something from the structure (its place is an enclosure), it is waiting for something inside itself. It exerts an effort upon itself in order to become a figure now it is inside the body that something is happening, the body is the source of movement.

Athleticism, The Logic of Sensation. Deleuze.



Elliptical Circulations

Studio Wall Spaces/Artist's Books.


Between 'Devices'

Documentation/Research/Reading/Places/Images


Interpolation/Interpolation/Interstitial. 


Sculpting In Time.

Tarkovsky.


The Poetics of Space.

Gaston Bachelard.


Saturday, 21 March 2026

Circulating Objects/Assemblages : Making Spaces/Creative Strategies

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Occupant Spatial Relations 







Sites centred around interactions of creative practice and architectural theories of making spaces.

Architecture understood as a collection of collective parts.

A diagrammatic art of lived abstraction and lived-in abstraction.

A space for inhabiting experience.

Attention to material : Architecture as the excitement of building/dwelling/becoming
















An inhabiting event is the medium of architecture.

Garden : Spatial Markers/Bodies/Paths.

Spatial Practices : Human Bodies/Spatial Bodies. Tate Modern. #7

Zuzana Kovar, notes that the shortcoming of Tschumi's event is that while it introduces a processional understanding of architecture and mobilizes the body in space, space it self remains static.


Equation becomes a spatial assemblage for occurrences.


For Deleuze, an 'assemblage' extends the understanding between bodies and spaces.


Program is determinate.

Event is indeterminate.


A program gives a fixed outcome, a fixed spatial experience. An event does not, critically the 'notion of event' is that it activates potentialities. Each space, may be thought of as composed of multiple singular potentialities that lay dormant, unless activated. 


All spaces contain multiple potentialities.


Event Is Not Program.


There is no architecture without actions, no architecture without events, no architecture without program.


Architecture=Space + Event.

Tschumi.


Program is to be distinguished from 'event', a program is a determinate set of expected occurrences, a list of required utilities often based on social behavior, habit or custom. In contrast events occur as an indeterminate set of outcomes, revealing hidden potentialities or contradictions in a program and relating them to a particularly appropriate (or possibly exceptional) spatial configuration that may create conditions for unexpected events to occur.


Generating uncommon or unpredictable events through particular spatial configurations of the in-between.


Abject(ion) Studio Space.

Subjectivity/Spatial Bodies.









Discursive Objects/Architectural Occurrences/Resonances.

Assemblages, fired, raw pigments, paint, chalk, wax, plaster. 


The Enabling Constraint.

Objects become relational in conjunction with the ways in which the environment proposes its own constitutive limits.

Erin Manning.


Ceramics Speculative/Exploratory Practices.


New Ceramic Forms of Research/Theoretical Objects.

Thursday, 5 February 2026

Beuys Brown and Klein Blue : Colour as substance/the transubstantiation of matter.

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Cyanotype Durational Sun Print.

Charcoal and Clay trace drawing.








Beuys Brown and Klein Blue

Magdalena Broska.


The Transubstantiation of Matter.


Beuys's materials are not to be understood literally, by their outward appearance.


Beuys emphasises that the brown floor paint is not just a colour but also a plastic substance.


I have chosen brown so as to present a plastic substance and thus express something that relates to every form of substantiality, just as I am trying to do with this superimposed red. I simply want to bridge the gap between a discussion about colour and the problem of substantiality.

Joseph Beuys, Drawings. 1979


For Beuys the real and the concretely employed material is only seemingly real, fully in a philosophical sense: a phenomenon from some essential being that is hidden behind appearances, and that is to be elicited by a kind of counter- image process.


Conceptions of Counter Images/Transformation.

The Homoeopathic Method/Like cures like.


Beuys's brown and Klein's blue form a pair of opposites: according to the hermetic-alchemical world view, such opposites contain the arcane power of polar dissimilarity that seeks to be augmented and joined together, a polar way of thinking that seeks resolution.


With his brown oil paint, Joseph Beuys assumed a counter-position to Yves Klein and his blue, which stands for immaterial manifestations, the sky, the sea, and the light of the south, and which conveys space and wide vistas.


In terms of consistency, Beuys's brown is purely coating paint, as commonly used for rust proofing.


Its visual appearance links it with earth, heaviness, darkness, and also blood.

Thursday, 5 June 2025

Soul Cages for Architecture and its Abject Objects.

Spatial  Matter(s) manifesting care with making.

Inhabitation : Ceramics work/relate by becoming readings of archaeological research.


Soul Cages/Architectural Bodies.

My art practice investigates the interconnectedness of making interior spaces. These works in clay are processual in nature, developed by a need to demarcate and fold material into spatial forms and volumes.

3 Compositional Forms.

270mmx230mmx70mm

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