Friday, 9 July 2021

Collage Body : Diversions, Contradictions and Anomalies.

Collage : Diversions, Contradictions and Anomalies.

Body : Personal Relations and Spatial Values

Reading : Slow Philosophy


Collage's integral methods of discordance and displacement have so insistently reflected turbulent developments in twentieth century art, science and geopolitics that our response might be to categorise the whole genre as iconoclasm or subversive fantasy.

Sally O'Reilly





THE PERSPECTIVE OF EXPERIENCE


Yi-Fu Tuan

1959 : Patti Smith
Peace and Noise

Lingering at the threshold between word and image
Cy Twombly
Claire Daigle



Although his work resonates strongly with generations of younger artists, ranging from Brice Marden to Richard Prince to Tacita Dean to Patti Smith, it has a general propensity to polarise its audience between perplexity and unbridled admiration. 

Certainly, the fortuities of a name are being pushed too far here, but what does Twombly do but offer up words in all of their resonance: literal, metaphoric, corporeal, material? His citations often have the vanitas effect of graffiti: ‘Cy was here’. Lingering at the threshold between word and image, Twombly renders visible those things – experience, emotion, the body’s share – that lie beyond the reach of verbal articulation
















Research Material
Photographic Drawings

PETER ZUMTHOR ATMOSPHERES

Architectural Environments
Surrounding Objects
2006 Birkhauser, Basel, Switzerland.

The New Institutional Practice
Projective Enterprises (should unsettle, activate, and raise questions)

The exhibitions to emerge through new institutionalism are considered as points of exchange and collision, made through intersections of social, economic and political relations, it follows that the predominant forms of artistic practice included are the social, the spatial, the interdisciplinary 

So our understanding of site has shifted from a fixed , physical location to somewhere or something constituted through social-economic-cultural and political processes
Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity
Miwon Kwon 2002

Collaborations and its Discontents
Claire Bishop 2006

The motivating factors for participatory projects is its critiquing of the essentialising of site and community in context-specific activities/exhibitions

A complex environment, awash in affect and subjectivity
When subjective and analytic processes mesh together to form a new productive and political 'contexts' of communicational labour  

New curatorial initiatives must unpack the terminologies we use to distinguish one project from another
A playful psychogeographical situation, that resists the representative, illustrative and thematic narratives
Unsettling-Complicit
Provocative-Strategic
Interventionist-Collaborative

Perforative Curating/Prescribed Participation
Creating new/more coded patterns of behavior/conventions/role play for visitor's

New Institionalism and the Exhibition As Situation/Social Experiment
Claire Doherty 2006

Participation
In which people constitute the central artistic medium and material
In the manner of theatre and performance
Participatory art is both a social activity and a symbolic one, as it is both embedded in the world and at one, remove from it

The artist is conceived less as an individual producer of discrete objects, than as a collaborator and producer of situations
The contemporary artwork is finite, portable, commodifiable product, and is reconceived as an ongoing or long term project with an unclear beginning and end
Artists are more interested in the creative rewards of participation as a politicised working process, than the relational aesthetic which renders discursive and dialogic projects more amenable to museums and galleries

Artificial Hells (exposing the political and aesthetic limitations in the work)
Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship
Claire Bishop 2011

Site-Specificity/Spatial Practice
The distinguishing characteristic of today's site-oriented art is the way in which both the art work's relationship to the actuality of a location (as site) and the social conditions of the institutional frame (as site) are subordinated to a discursively determined site that is delineated as a field of knowledge, intellectual exchange or cultural debate
Miwon Kwon 1997

Whilst temporary exhibitions can expand the scope of medium-specific discourse, they can also impose alternative, but equally restrictive frames
Participation, creating a bridge between socially engaged practice and the permanent collection

Expressing itself expressing 

Creating a conceptual and linguistic dexterity between absolutes, certainties, definitions

Dissolving the intellectual relevance, with its symbiotic relationship with utility to create 'vessels' beyond art and artifact

Thursday, 8 July 2021

On the nature of photography : Alternative Photographic Processes


On the nature of photography

Alternative Photographic Processes








MOLECULAR SIEVE, is a performative analysis of “this place” utilising the simple properties of the pinhole camera. This appropriated apparatus makes visible the extrusive nature of time as it is deposited on the photographic surface. The extended durations required to register “place” impart a sense of dwelling as recorded by the apparatuses passive gaze. These surfaces record and register a relation constructed by the architecture of the chamber and what is beyond it. Movements when visible appear as simple abbreviated enactments caught like inclusions within this consolidated and timely consolation of place.

Contexts:

Community , Conference / Symposium , Socially Engaged

Artforms:

Performance , Architecture , Photography , Installation

Tags:

10 Days Winchester, pinhole photography, creative arts research, 

spatial practices, social apparatuses, event, fallow site


Film based inquiry into analogue based darkroom processes and timed intervals of exposures. 

Work staged within the initial developing spaces for 10 days in the laundry, Winchester.


Contexts:

Community , Public art

Artforms:

Performance , Installation , Photography

Tags:

10 Days in the Laundry, Winchester, fallow site, analogue, pinhole camera, daylight, interior, semblances, exploratory, documentation, agency






Camera obscura

Liquid Light Emulsion

Photograms

Analogue and Digital Hybrid Printing

Cyanotypes

Pinhole Cameras



alternative photographic processes, liquid light, photograms, 

textual, light writing, collage, experimental, analogue, filmic,


KONTAKTE : THESE MACHINES


Alternative photographic photograms and collages for the CD artwork 

to promote the ambient music of Kontakte.

Limited edition CD artwork, and booklet.








Contexts:

Commission , Design , Public art

Artforms:

Book works , Illustration , Photography

Tags:

KONTAKTE, ambient music, CD artwork, alternative photography, photograms, collage, These Machines, Nuclear Winter


Tuesday, 6 July 2021

What is philosophy/Deleuze, Guattari : The unfolded garment and other spatial concepts

 Intermezzo : Nomadic Photographic Assemblage

What is philosophy/Deleuze, Guattari 




a thousand plateaus

Deleuze, Guattari


Assemblage

Becoming

Body Without Organs

Nomad

Rhizome

Smooth Space

State

War Machine



The Uberficiation of the University

BY MARK CARRIGAN ON NOVEMBER 22, 2016



A fascinating short book by Gary Hall, available open access at the Coventry University repository: 


The Sharing Economy

Platform Capitalism

Uber.edu

The Reputation Economy

The Microentrepreneur of the Self

The Para-academic

The Artrepreneur

Affirmative Disruption


The unfolded garment and other spatial concepts












The Unfolded Garment

Embracing Subjectivity

Pierced Assemblage on Photogram

Espace-Milieu, Winchester Cathedral.

Painting evolved from Space for Peace, Winchester Cathedral. Site drawing from architectural plan and documentation of people moving within the event.

aerial, cathedral, cyanotype, public gathering, 

spatial mapping, palimpsest, drawing, lightness


What is Philosophy?

Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari


Their book is a profound and careful interrogation of what it might mean to be a 'friend of wisdom', but it is also a devastating attack on the sterility of what has become, when 'the only events are exhibitions and the only concepts are products which can be sold'. Philosophy, they insist, is not contemplation, reflection or communication, but the creation of concepts



Monday, 5 July 2021

Grisaille Patterning : Translucency/Paintings/Object Fields for a Luminous Philosophy

Grisaille Patterning : Translucency/Paintings for a Luminous Philosophy

Painting and Mapping/Choreutics : The luminous

Palimpsest/Making Spaces through movements  and atomized materials

Grisaille Patterning : Redundancies making spaces between objects

Gilles Deleuze's Luminous Philosophy : Hanjo Berressem

Spinoza :Practical Philosophy, Gilles Deleuze

Drawing into painting, paintings/environs in the company of philosophy

Painting as explorative material sites (aporias/difficult futures) between the discursive and the practical.

The discursive investigates and reconfigures further temporal propositions and contingences, it draws its subject beyond its ordered description and context of relations.








Architectural painting for glass exploring slowness and repetition.

Surface depths, an intermingling on the cusp of a speculative un-knowing

patterning, architectural, surface, design, painting, 

translucency, lightness, silence, reading room


An Anthropology of Landscape

Christopher Tilley

Kate Cameron-Daum










Spirituality in Contemporary Art

The Idea Of The Numinous

Jingu Yoon


New Global Ecologies

Baratunde Thurston


The Rooms

To Love Is To Live

Jehnny Beth


lightness, luminosity, fluid, hybrid media, material, 

asperity, field, gesso, molochite, yellow ochre


Baratunde Thurston, Hanjo Berressem, Kate Cameron-Daum, Spinoza, philosophy, painting, numinous, An Anthropology of Landscape, luminosity, Gilles Deleuze, Jingu Yoon, Grisaille, Russell Moreton, Christopher Tilley,

Sunday, 4 July 2021

Translucent Materials/Glass, Text, Film : Timbre/Tone and Colour through Architectural Experimentation

Translucent Materials/Glass, Text, Film  
Timbre/Tone and Colour through Architectural Experimentation


Learning Space (Canterbury School of Architecture)

Darwin, Objective, Scientific, empirical, quantifiable.
Jeanette Winterson

UCA Farnham, Interior Design.
Colour Slide

Pinhole Photography and Architectural Drawing


















28/03/2017















Saturday, 3 July 2021

Architecture and Experimental Photography : Glass Panels/Stevens Competition

Architecture and Experimental Photography/Stained Glass 

Winchester Science Centre, SPUD, experimental photography, architectural glass, Stevens Competition, glass walls, translucency, Russell Moreton, interior design, photogram, spatial practice, shelter design, UCA Farnham,











Posted 02/04/2014

Friday, 2 July 2021

J G Ballard, matters of aesthetics : The Plague of Images


The planet drowns in an ocean of photographic emulsion.

The more civilised we are, the fewer moral choices we have to make. But the mind atrophies. A moral calculus that took thousands of years to develop starts to wither from neglect. Once you dispense with morality, the important decisions become a matter of aesthetics.
Super Cannes, J G Ballard. 2000

Speculative Fields/Spatial Agents
Textual Realities, J G Ballard on Chris Marker

La Jetée "a fusion of science fiction, a psychological fable"

The sun has gone mad and stripped the earth of its ionosphere. For decades blasting radiation has poured upon earth, melting the polar caps and turning permafrost into streams, rivers, oceans. Huge deltas have been built, lakes formed, seas have risen.

The Drowned World, JG Ballard.


DSC_0149 Light/Darkroom

Cinema, Mizmaze St Catherine's Hill.

Amorphous Photography : Star Trails
Prints from an Archive of Negatives



"He rubbed his eyes. The riddle of his surroundings was confusing but his mind was quite clear - evidently his sleep had  benefited him. He was not in a bed at all as he understood the word, but lying naked on a very soft and yeilding mattress, in a trough of dark glass. The mattress was partly transparent, a fact he observed with a sense of insecurity, and below it was a mirror reflecting him greyly. Above his arm- and he saw with a shock that his skin was strangely dry and yellow - was bound a curious apparatus of rubber, bound so cunningly that it seemed to pass into his skin above and below. And this bed was placed in a case of greenish-coloured glass (as it seemed to him), a bar in the white framework of which had first arrested his attention. In the corner of the case was a stand of glittering and delicately made apparatus, for the most part quite strange appliances, though a maximum  and minimum thermometer was recognizable."

H. G. Wells : The Sleeper Awakes. 1899/1910

Spatiality : The Spatial Turn, Robert T. Tally Jr. 2013

Immediate Architectural Interventions, Durations and Effects : Apparatuses, Things and People in the Making of the City and the World. Alberto Altes Arlandis, Oren Lieberman. 2013

Preface (1921) ” The great city of this story is no more than a nightmare of Capitalism triumphant, a nightmare that was dreamt a quarter of a century ago. It is a fantastic possibility no longer possible. Much evil may be in store for mankind, but to this immense, grim organization of servitude, our race will never come” H.G. Wells. EastonGlebe, Dunmow,1921.

Veiled Melancholy/Book Narratives : Film Collages