Body/Landscapes : Frank van de Ven. 2007

17 May 2007 Body/Landscape 12-19 July 2007 

Basque Country France Intensive 8-day dance workshop with Frank van de Ven in the South of France. Headquarters will be in the village of Macaye, situated at the foot of the Pyrenees Mountains on the French side of Basque Country. 

A stunning landscape rich with wild life and a strong local tradition. The river Nive/Errobi flows 20 km towards the ocean. 

The workshop is embedded within the annual Itxassou Festival of Music and Art. Body/Landscape: 

The workshop proposes strategies to confront our bodies with the multiplicity, unpredictability, directness and autonomy of the natural environment. The aim is to explore and develop consciousness of the body itself being an ever evolving landscape within a greater surrounding landscape.

http://bodyweatheramsterdam.blogspot.com Body/Landscape Workshop with Frank van de Ven Creative Scotland:

Russell Moreton : Spatial Practices/Fine Art/Architecture/Performance : Reflective Journal 2013

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

Reflective Journal 2013

Reflective Journal : Diffusion/Spatial Intelligence/Between Figure and Ground

Reflective Journal : Diffusion/The Time Machine. Borderline Projects/Strange Attractors.

rhythmanalysis : Space, Time and Everyday Life.
Lefebvre

Jannis Kounellis
Carlo Scarpa

"Translates the painterly relationship of figure and ground into the space of real situations"
The Visual Poetics of Jannis Kounellis, Suzanne Cotter and Andrew Nairne.
Modern Art Oxford, 2004-2005.

Spatial Intelligence
New Futures for Architecture
Leon van Schaik

Archaeological Site, Morn Hill, Winchester.



Psychogeography is an approach to geography that emphasizes playfulness and "drifting" around urban environments. It has links to the Situationist International. Psychogeography was defined in 1955 by Guy Debord as "the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals."^[1]Another definition is "a whole toy box full of playful, inventive strategies for exploring cities... just about anything that takes pedestrians off their predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape."^[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography

Collage, stamps and non-spaces

Collage, stamps and non-spaces, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Collage based around the architectural and the temporal, of non spaces within architecture and the library stamp.

Text/Tent/Texture #1

Text/Tent/Texture #1, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Reflective journal and artist's book, a place to collage interests and findings whilst they wait to be discovered. This ongoing chronicle of explorations reflects the sense of "nowness" within the creative process. Most things lay dormant and waiting, their they remain encapsulated within the books fertile beauty.