Monday, 4 November 2013
Camera Obscura : Kilquhanity 2011. #3
Dark Session's : Shadowy speculations in the pottery. Kilquhanity 2011
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Silver gelatin prints from a "room obscura" set up at Kilquhanity, Scotland 2011 as part of "Back to Free school, Drawing out the Archive".
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Friday, 1 November 2013
Site Apparatus/Camera Obscura : Collage on site proposal.
About Camera Obscura:
Marx, Freud, Nietzsche--in vastly different ways all three employed the metaphor of the camera obscura in their work. In this classic book--at last available in an English translation--the distinguished French philosopher Sarah Kofman offers an extended reflection on this metaphor. She contrasts the mechanical function of the camera obscura as a kind of copy machine, rendering a mirror-image of the work, with its use in the writings of master thinkers.
In her opening chapter on Marx, Kofman provides a reading of inversion as necessary to the ideological process. She then explores the metaphor of the camera obscura in Freud’s description of the unconscious. For Nietzsche the camera obscura is a "metaphor for forgetting." Kofman asks here whether the "magical apparatus" of the camera obscura, rather than bringing about clarity, serves some thinkers as fetish. Camera Obscura is a powerful discussion of a metaphor that dominates contemporary theory from philosophy to film.
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Thursday, 31 October 2013
Blue Process : Alternative Spatial Relations #2
Without the agency of time and light, there is no record.
Sunday, 27 October 2013
Surrounding Objects : Critical Proximity ~6
Clay impression, drawing and form
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Research Material
Photographic Drawings
PETER ZUMTHOR ATMOSPHERES
Architectural Environments
Surrounding Objects
2006 Birkhauser, Basel, Switzerland.
