Slow Philosophy/Discursive Attachments : Gathering Inquiry/Materials/Objects/Things

Slow Philosophy/Discursive Attachments : Gathering Materials/Objects/Things

Research as a discursive activity gathering new forms of expression.

Duration, Steven Holl

Time is only understood in relation to a process or a phenomenon.

The duration of human beings alive in one time and place is a relational notion.

The time of one's being is provisional; it is a circumstance with an adopted aim for the time being.

SPACE-and ARCHITECTURE-exceeds the provisional

The Enchantment of Modern Life.

Attachments, Crossing and Ethics

The performativity of social representations

When I gather together the animals, arguments, molecules, suggestions, forces, interpretations, sounds, people, and images of this study, one theme emerges. The modern story of disenchantment leaves out important things, and it neglects crucial sources of ethical generosity in doing so. Without modes of enchantment, we might not have the energy and inspiration to enact ecological projects, or to contest ugly and unjust modes of commercialization, or to respond generously to humans and nonhumans that challenge our settled identities. These enchantments are already in and around us.

Jane Bennett

Be not inhospitable to strangers

lest they be angels in disguise

Jackie Leven, The Dent In The Fender And The Wheel Of Fate

David Childers, Heart In My Soul

Collage Works : Architectural Studies. Outpost Studios, Norwich.

Studio Works : Praxis between theory and practice. Outpost 2020.

Outpost Studios Norwich, collage, textual, intermedia, 

spatial practice, resource, project space, art practice, research, book works

Architectural Inquiry : Metaphysical Surfaces

Blue Spaces Of Everyday Enchantments : White Absences #2. Silence/Void : Gap/Reveal

Slow Philosophy : Materials/Objects/Things

Few boundaries are impenetrable

They are rather, semi-permeable membranes providing housing while allowing selective commerce

In a world of materials, nothing is ever finished : 'everything may be something, but being something is always on the way to becoming something else'

Tim Ingold 2011

Materials, Tim Ingold, slow philosophy, studio works, textile, clay, painting, yellow ochre

New works around fired clay, painting, wrapping forms, metal, textiles and stones.

Architectural research for a library within a studio.

clay, textile, wrapping, painting, natural objects, 

photographic surface, asperity, poetics of process, studio

Palimpsest/Surface Sprays : Spaces Between Objects

Site based inquiry for sculpture trail at Raveningham

collage, research, spatiality, art practice, alternative photography, 

drawing, architectural, intervention, visual fine art, craft

studio, metaphysical space, collage, Palimpsest, Cristina Iglesias, Steven Holl, Jackie Leven, Tim Ingold, Julian Stair, drawing, sprays, Jane Bennett, Russell Moreton, Lucio Fontana,

Ecologies of Experience~What is the nature of the drawn line? : Thinking/Becoming through Drawing.

Outpost 070524

Studio representations from the Life Class, negotiations around the physical body through drawing. 

The difficult question?

What is drawing?

What is the nature of the drawn line?

The first condition that precedes them all, the blankness of a surface, and the motions, now commencing of a point tracing, marking lines across its spaces into further spaces.

Of all the Arts, drawing has the potential to reduce to its smallest the smallest, the gap between meaning and non meaning, between repeatability and singularity.

What exactly is a mark, and how does it, might it distinguish itself from say a trace?

Drawing because of its status as becoming (blot becoming mark-mark becoming line-line becoming contour-contour becoming image-image becoming sign) the direction of this movement being always reversible, posits a continuum of sense, from one sense of 'sense' to the other, yet it seems impossible to observe, or to catch hold of. 

The precise moment or experience of that 'flip-over' from pre-sign differentiated, but not yet diacritically caught in an opposition to signification, image, and meaning. It happens in a blink, when the eye is closed insofar as something is given to us that we cannot experience, it is something like death, or a trauma, or a transport from one place to another without our knowing how we got there.

What would be the distinctive mode or modes of the manifestation of drawing.

The problem is to 'slow' the consideration of the mark, so that it does not move too quickly towards line-contour-figure or image. To allow it to hesitate on the edge, to show what it hides.

The blind-spot marks that point in the field of vision that we cannot see. If to look at something means to impose a distance and to objectify it, the blind-spot would be the 'place' in the visible from which we cannot detach ourselves and which we cannot objectify, it marks our attachment or our adhesion to the world.

Drawing, shows what it hides.

Jackie Pigeaud argues that the sense and the practice of the contour is doubled. 

The contour is the joining of the traits to make the line and the contour is doubled by being finished by a second contour that does away with the imperfections of the first. In this sense of the creative act, the artist shows what he hides and furthermore he hides the transitions and joints that make this showing possible, a collapse of the distinction between mark and line as they become contour, image, representations.

Michael Newman.

The Marks, Traces and Gestures of Drawing.

The Stage of Drawing, Gesture and Acts.

Thinking Through Drawing.

Lines of Enquiry. 2006

Drawing as thinking as opposed to drawing as aesthetics.

It is the seemingly paradoxical nature underlying all drawing, simultaneously a form of recording and invention, situated between unconstrained gestures and the reiteration of a point of view, perspective or analysis. Each drawing is first of all a 'working sketch', the individual work forms part of a much wider and longer project and is an instance within that exploration.

Drawing/Project.

Both words drawing and project are both spatially and temporally orientated, project implies a throwing forward, a casting into the future towards some yet to be realised destination, drawing variously as an extruding, a gathering and a pulling closer. 

Drawing allows you to both evolve, describe, communicate all at the same time, it holds together many disparate factors, potentials, all of which may influence an outcome.

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

Material Matters : When your mind starts moving~mattering spaces between actuality

Making : The Processual Character of Attentionality.

An Ecology of Materials.

https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/an-ecology-of-materials-3064

Clay.

Dwelling.

Rethinking the animate, re-animating thought.

Tim Ingold.

Ingold insists on a flat, continuous and processual ontology of dwelling and becoming.

A Practice of Transformational Modalities.

Making/Curriculum/Dwelling/Landscape/Place.

The Processual Character of Form.

Organic life, as I envisage it, is active rather than reactive, the creative unfolding of an entire field of relations within which beings emerge and take on the forms they do, each in relation to the others. Life is the very process wherein forms are generated and held in place.

For Ingold, there is no environment without the folding and enmeshment that is the process of life. Organisms are not folded in on themselves and surrounded by an 'environment'. Instead organisms are points of growth of environment, and whose relations are rhizoidal; and the environment is better understood as a domain of entanglement.

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

 

Overflowing Forces~in-acts of Sympathy with the Anarchic share of Existence.

Extreme Atmospheres : Fired Clay Labyrinths.

Interpenetrations~Visual Art Materialisms.

//russellmoreton.academia.edu

Clay~Anarchive Matter(s) : Transitive Forces of a Minor Key.

Research-Creation as Spatial Practice.

Clay Bodies~Baffles : Atmospheres and the Continual Weather World.

On a making that is a speculative pragmatism reaching out into the more-than anarchic share of existence, creating the conditions for living better. Moreton/Whitehead/Manning/Ingold.

Making Processual Architectures.

Clay+Ceramic+Anarchive : Minor Gestures~Interstitial space of emergent expression

An anarchive is a dynamic, creative, and "feed-forward" process that acts as a repository of traces rather than a static, traditional archive. Coined by philosophers Brian Massumi and Erin Manning, it functions as a "living" collection that encourages new, generative creations and potential rather than merely documenting the past.

Key Characteristics of an Anarchive

Active Process: Unlike an archive, which preserves and fixes, the anarchive is in constant flux and continues to evolve, focusing on potential rather than just the past.

"Feed-Forward" Mechanism: It is a "springboard" or "curating score" that triggers future artistic, social, or research-based work, rather than just acting as a reference to a past event.

Traces vs. Documents: Anarchives collect "traces" or fragments of events, which are seen as "carriers of potential" for further, often unpredictable, development.

Subversive Nature: It acts against the rigid, linear, and "destructive tendencies" of traditional archiving.

Collaborative & Experimental: It often involves the co-creation of knowledge, often in the form of multimedia projects, such as the anarchive.net project. 

The term is often used in arts-based research, such as the "Walking Anarchive" project, to describe how researchers can work with memories, experiences, and artistic materials in a non-linear way. 

With The Drawing Board : On the transitiveness of going along with things.

The Drawing Board, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

The Granary Studio, Brockwood Park, Bramdean. 2013

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