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

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Reflective Journal 2013

Selected Research : Hungate/Water : Historical Architectural Programming

 Hungate 

Work In Progress

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On Constructing Creativity.

Wondrous Engagements. 

Light/Substance/Ritual/Memory/Display

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WATER

Conduits of inquiry into the sacred and the secular, the spirit and the body.

Cleansing Vessels.

Piscina/Niche/Wall/Building

Art/Archaeology

Ritual/Display

Corporeal/Spiritual

Beuys, was involved in questions of form, material processes and social sculpture, he believed that art and the insight gained through art becomes a formative influence on life. He wanted a situation where life and art become one. Academicians sense that in this ideal state, an Academy would be superfluous. 

Raw materials/substances/tools all used as symbols with their own unique properties and qualities.

Beuys brought things into forms, in which the material and the forms are really in accord with each other, and are satisfied and want to keep on living. He was constantly moving material between two opposed poles, undetermined chaos (a blob of melted fat) and determined order (a box of things). 

Selected Research.

Being mindful that material can lead the way.

Beuys/Cragg on matter and materials beyond the hylomorphic model.

Gaston Bachelard, on intimate, watery spaces and the imagination.

Poetics Of Space.

Juhani Pallasmaa, on reading and experiencing architectural spaces at The Hungate.

The Eyes Of The Skin, Architecture And The Senses.

Proposals into working practice/ideas.

Returning to direct site based experiential drawings/templates/mappings/rubbings. 

Fluidity between surfaces and things, of dampness, stains and porous plaster.

The molecular interstitial spaces of light, air and water.

Sacred water washing the soul (the font), secular water washing the body (the bath)

Bonnard, domicile paintings of body,water and the baptism of light.

Displacement of things (body/rituals) in vessels of water (bath/font).

The architectural interior, a historical place of shelter for beliefs.

The membrane, screen, between the cleansing nakedness of water.

 

Hungate/Site Workings : Collected Ideas/Texts/Forms and Materials

 

Photographic Spatialities : Geographies of Art and Architecture.

 Images/Energies/Collages : Core, Periphery and Semiperiphery : 

In Defence of Sensuality : John Cowper Powys 1930.

Foreword.

The author feels that perhaps some explanation is due to the reader for the rather unusual employment of the word "Sensuality" which serves as the title of this work. The advantage given to the author by the use of this particular expression is that it enables him to proceed from rock-bottom upwards as far as he likes. A more refined title would have cut him off, in his method of developing his idea, from the physical roots of existence; for while it is easy to indicate the overtones and undertones of Sensuality it would be hard to bring a gentle, vague word, like the word "sensuousness" down to the bare, stark, stoically-stripped Life-Sensation which is the subject of this book.

J.C.P.

Dedicated to the memory of that great

and much-abused man

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"In the water" : Pinhole Photography/ Floating Camera

Learning With Artists : Art Barn : Brockwood Park School.

Learning Environments.

Art Education : Brockwood Art Barn Exhibition AS/A2

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Substance, Memory, Display : Postcard used as index for recorded disc.

Postcard : used as index for recorded disc., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Verso
A for Andromeda, BBC4 27.03.06 90 minutes
1973 Romantic Poets
Disc Full

Fragment of a map, part of a process of inquiry, a testing of visual properties, or just an accumulator for all these things, quietly appropriated into the working practice.

Collage/abstracts (Heuristic Fragments) Reflective Material #1

Is there still an aesthetic illusion? And if not, a path to an “aesthetic” illusion, the radical illusion of secret, seduction and magic? Is there still, on the edges of hypervisibility, of virtuality, room for an image?

— Jean Baudrillard, The Conspiracy of Art, 2005

A heuristic technique (/hjᵿˈrɪstᵻk/; Ancient Greek: εὑρίσκω, "find" or "discover"), often called simply a heuristic, is any approach to problem solving, learning, or discovery that employs a practical method not guaranteed to be optimal or perfect, but sufficient for the immediate goals.

Heuristic Material : Collage 

1. encouraging a person to learn, discover, understand, or solve problems on his or her own, as by experimenting, evaluating possible answers or solutions, or by trial and error: a heuristic teaching method.

2. serving to indicate or point out; stimulating interest as a means of furthering investigation.

Reading Collage : Spatial Drawings/Documents/Analogue Photography

A Hut of One's Own, Ann Cline

Texts,Annotations, Foundations, Pathways, Corridors, Bookmarks, Walking, Thinking, Ramble, Cross Country, Disciplines, 

Herzog  and De Meuron

NATURAL HISTORY

Jana Sterbak

Remote Control 1989

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Glass Work/Figure Drawings : Josef Albers : Lattices of Emotional Content