Composite Bodies in Spaces : Drawing into the contemporary sociological imagination

Drawing into the contemporary sociological imagination

Intermezzo : Nomadic Photographic Assemblage

a thousand plateaus
Deleuze, Guattari

Assemblage
Becoming
Body Without Organs
Nomad
Rhizome
Smooth Space
State
War Machine

www.rhizomes.net/issue5/poke/glossary.html

The Uberficiation of the University
BY MARK CARRIGAN ON NOVEMBER 22, 2016• ( 0 )
sociologicalimagination.org/archives/18986

The Sharing Economy
Platform Capitalism
Uber.edu
The Reputation Economy
The Microentrepreneur of the Self
The Para-academic
The Artrepreneur
Affirmative Disruption

A fascinating short book by Gary Hall, available open access at the Coventry University repository:
curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/file/4b7671d5-371f-438b-83c7-92...

img20161120_17325939 Photographic Forms

Drawing figure/ground, documentation of work in progress.

Life "drawing" trace on paper with water and field chalk. Work submitted to Interfaith Group Show at the Link Gallery, Winchester 2010.

"This particular event invokes for me the notion of simple material relations and collaborative gestures that underpin human agency.
Art space/practice can promote these working intimations that enter into the realm of beliefs."        

Artist's Statement (archive)  07.12.2009.

Camera Obscura : Kilquhanity 2011. #4
Dark Session's : Shadowy speculations in the pottery. Kilquhanity 2011

Silver gelatin prints from a "room obscura" set up at Kilquhanity, Scotland 2011 as part of "Back to Free school, Drawing out the Archive"

Sequential Photograph : In the space around the "spatial turn" (539)
Art as Spatial Practice.
Space folds : Containing "Spatialities around historicality and sociality"

"All that is solid melts into air"

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels,
(Poetic observation concerning the constant revolutionizing of social conditions)

Perceptions now gathering at the end of the millennium. Spatiality, Robert T. Tally Jr. 2013

pictify.com/user/russellmoreton

PB144997a : Mapping.

Bento's Sketchbook : John Berger

The human  body  {corpus humanum) is composed  of many individuals (of different nature),  each  one of which  is highly composite.

The  individuals  of  which  the  human  body  is  composed  are some fluid, some soft and some hard.

The individuals composing  the human  body,  and  conse­quently  the human  body  itself is affected  in  many  ways by external bodies.

The human body needs for its preservation many other bodies from which it is, so to speak, continually regenerated.

When a fluid part of the human body is so determined by an external body that it impinges frequently on another part which is soft, it changes its surface and as it were imprints on it the traces of the external impelling body.

The  human  body  can  move  external  bodies  in  many  ways, and dispose them in many ways.

The human mind is apt for perceiving many things, and more so according as its body can be disposed in more ways.

{Ethics, Part II, Postulates I-VI, Proposition XIV)

Photography/A Fragmentary Whole : The Temporal Flow of Things

Postmodern : Ever Changing, Fleeting, Positive, Nihilistic,

"There are no simple concepts. Every concept has components and is defined by them.
It therefore has a combination [chiffre]. It is a multiplicity, although not every multiplicity
is conceptual...
Not only do Descartes, Hegel, and Feuerbach not begin
with the same concept,
they do not have the same concept of beginning...
Every concept has an irregular
contour defined by the sum of its components,
which is why,
from Plato to Bergson,
we find
the idea of the concept being a
matter of articulation,
of cutting and
cross-cutting.
The concept is a whole because it totalizes
its components, but it is
a fragmentary whole.
Only on this condition can it escape the
mental chaos
constantly threatening it, stalking it, trying to reabsorb it."


-- Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, What is Philosophy?, pp. 15-16.

“Philosophy is really homesickness,” says Novalis: “it is the urge to be at home everywhere.”

Literary cartography is not a literal form of mapmaking, after all; rather, it involves the ways and means by which a given work of literature functions as a figurative map, serving as an orientating or sense-making form.

Lukács’s Literary Cartography:

Spatiality, Cognitive Mapping, and The Theory of the Novel

Robert T. Tally Jr.

Path : Circular, Stonehenge

Transparency,time and matter #2

Camera Obscura : Kilquhanity 2011. #4

Dark Session's : Shadowy speculations in the pottery. Kilquhanity 2011

Silver gelatin prints from a "room obscura" set up at Kilquhanity, Scotland 2011 as part of "Back to Free school, Drawing out the Archive".

Blue Spaces : White Absences #2
https://visualartpractices.wordpress.com/

Walking into Emergent Landscapes : Covehithe Beach
Deeper Darkness, Photographic Memory/Process, Metonymy, Negative,
Analogue, Negated Nocturne. Walking, Others, Presence, Becoming,

London/Millennium Bridge : Architectural Abstracts/Drawing Traces

Spatial/Intellectual/Processual Production : Messy Landscapes : Collage/Clayworks/Moholy-Nagy Vision in Motion

Practical Educational Establishments

Concentrations of intellectual production in political, scientific and artistic work in all areas of human activity.

https://monoskop.org/images/0/0d/Moholy-Nagy_Laszlo_Vision_in_Motion.pdf

The Art of Light
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Moholy-Nagy's educational concept was comprehensive, going far beyond purely artistic training and instead aiming for a fundamental ethical grounding of the social individual in education and design.

Educator, Modulator and Integrator, Hubertus Von Amelunxen.

Choreography of Existence : Holloways and making of Landscapes.

Dimitrij Mlekuz

The concept of assemblage works on various spatial and temporal scales and can hence be viewed more as an 'ecology' rather than an organism. In this case , I mean ecology not in the sense of environment, nature, pollution and so on, but in the sense of how things, human and otherwise, are imbricated with one another (Morton 2009, 2012).

Assemblages and ecologies that engender an agency that is all about an ability, to change things, and about the possibilities of worldly reconfigurings.

Dolphin and Tuin 2012:55

The task therefore is to educate the contemporary man as an integrator, the new designer able to re-evaluate human needs warped by machine civilisation. 

Moholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, Chicago 1946

https://rekveld.home.xs4all.nl/tech/Moholy_Kepes_fragments.pdf

On Land/Ambiguous Temporality : East Anglia/North Sea/Boundaries of Subjectivity

As time itself becomes anachronistic through the process of the darkroom.

The handcrafted image, resurfaces in its uncanny return, comes to rest as spatially marginal.

Both a slowing down and a quickening at the very moment of exposure.

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Photographs haunted by the memory of their production.

• Russell Moreton
• visual art
• visual fine art
• spatial practice
• research creation
• ecology of experience

Melancholy Landscapes : The Plague/Vermilion Sands

Film Collages, hybrid processes and temporal states
Liminality : Literature/Philosophy/Visual Art

Landscapes : entering/intruding/emerging (holga819)
Existential Gestures : Looking away from the sea
Ballard : Vermilion Sands  :  Speculative Fields/Spatial Practices

Albert Camus : The Plague, 1947. (Penguin Fiction)

The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a virulent plague.

Cut off from the rest of the world, living in fear, they each respond in their own way to the grim challenge of the deadly bacillus. Among them is Dr Rieux, a humanitarian and healer, and it is through his eyes that that we witness the devastating course of the epidemic.

Written in 1947, just after the Nazi occupation of France, Camus's magnificent novel is also a story of courage and determination against the arbitrariness and seeming absurdity of human existence.

'Camus represents a particularly modern type of temperament, a mystic soul in a Godless universe, thirsty for the absolute, forever rebellious against the essential injustice of the human condition'
Shusha Guppy, Sunday Times

https://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/

06/04/2020 

Anthropological Entanglements/Emergent Landscapes : Strange Tools/The Rings of Saturn

 

Walking into Emergent Landscapes : Covehithe Beach

The OLD WAYS, a JOURNEY ON FOOT, Robert Macfarlane

“ Walking was a means of personal myth-making, but it also shaped his everyday longings:

Edward Thomas not only thought on paths and of them, but also with them.”

“To Thomas, paths connected real places but they also led out-wards to metaphysics, backwards to history and inward to the self. These traverses- between the conceptual, the spectral and the personal-occur often without signage in his writing, and are among its most characteristic events. He imagined himself in topographical terms.”

DSC_0585 Covehithe : Walking/Thinking/Physical Entanglements in the Landscape

Natural History : Dried Carnations

Blueprints : Anthropological Forms

Botanical traces with leper graves

https://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/

Contexts:

Art therapy , Exhibition , Open studio , Practice-based research,

Artforms:

Film & video , Painting , Photography , Printmaking,

Russell Moreton Scottish Odyssey : The Sea Cave (Fingal's Cave, collage from artist's journal)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/8509136705/in/photolist-dXVxTx-dvTCAj-dh9LZa-dh9HBy-bA9tVJ/