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Saturday, 13 May 2023
Friday, 12 May 2023
New Ceramics/Drawings/Constructions/Apparatuses/Daylight
Ceramic Forms/Inscriptions/Lines of Knowing.
Wayfaring, walking/sensing between things.
As wayfarers we experience what Robin Jarvis has called a progressional ordering of reality, or the integration of knowledge along a path of travel.
Up. Across and Along, Tim Ingold.
Structural Modalities/Making/Tensions : Spatial Forms to gather/interact with discursive research
Sensing Spaces : Through displacements and hidden volumes.
The Hut is a vessel in the making for reflective dwelling.
The Pot with its interior underpins its fidelity, its completeness.
Some pots are tuned and balanced for their “innerness”; others promote their surfaces (noise) at the expense of their interior integrity (quietness)
Vessels of Defined Spaces : Creatures of Light and Dark
In sensing a pots interior from its surface, we are as it were in some intimate tacit correspondence with its spatial sensing centre. We become known to it through its maker’s creative gesture of innemess. This anthropological inner space linking us to the potter is both sensual and distant; its vacancy allows us dwell in the maker’s absence.
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To build, dwell and explore the space of drawing through intuitive and abstract making.
Drawings/Constructions/Apparatuses.
There is no stage at which humankind does not demarcate, beacon or sign their space, leaving traces that are both symbolic and practical.
The Production of Space.
Lefebrve.
Like drawings, assemblages drawn and made showing the paths taken.
Landing Sites/Holding Places.
Between The Body/Sensing Spaces/Voids.
Perceptions, body, organism, environment,
Mezzanines, lofts, basements, balconies, walkways, scaffolds, access platforms.
Living Architectures/Narratives/Dwelling within the Ruinous.
Tarkovsky.
Bachelard.
Making Gestures and Connections in Space.
The Memory of Objects.
The Provocative Combination of Densities.
Inner Architectures/Clay/Sensorial/Conceptual/Places
I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.
The wilderness rose up to it,
And sprawled around, no longer wild.
The jar was round upon the ground
And tall and of a port in air.
It took dominion everywhere.
The jar was gray and bare.
It did not give of bird or bush,
Like nothing else in Tennessee.
Wallace Stevens, ‘Anecdote of the Jar’ (1919)
Innerness for the potter is always at the heart of the practice, as manifested through the opening up of the thrown vessel.
Inner spaces of defined interiors forming vessels that are intrinsically cyclical through light and dark by way of their surfaces and volumes.
Like the cellar, the pots interior and its containment of light and shadow becomes a dwelling space for a submerged primordial memory. (Bachelard/Trigg)
The clay links the vessel to both locality and our geocentric position.
‘Pleasure is moving from darkness to light and vice-versa.’
Grafton Architects. Sensing Spaces: 2014
The pot promotes an architecture of the soul, of an intimate yet social interior illuminated through the imagination.
In The Making : Hollowing out Space through Innerness and Difference.
Quietus : Interiors of Silence and Space.
Innerness : A (sensorial) space or even a place interior to its environment
Splitting.
Spatial representations/cuttings into the urban/social fabric of architectural redundancy.
Gordon Matta-Clark.
The co-existence of overlaying fragments of construction, by selective excavation and creative demolition.
Castelvecchio an attitude to history. Carlo Scarpa.
Site is the un-doing of place.
Generative and provisional, site-specific investigations for sensing place.
Hand Built, Slab Ceramics.
Oxide washes, incised lines and piercings undertaken to the raw clay forms.
Architectural Facades/Camera Obscura.
Dark Room.
Garry Fabian Miller.
The internal mechanisms with which we see and experience visual and physical phenomena depend on a bottom-up approach. Building up from elements of abstraction, the opposite top-down approach of given figuration stifles necessary imagination.
Curiosity, imagination and enthusiasm all hold a power in the mind to ignite the creative act.
The Lake of The Mind.
Steven Holl.
Stochastic thinking suggests an interconnected ecosystem of architecture together with all of the arts to achieve new levels of correlation.lay
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Confronting The Human Body : A Body Of Relations
Outpost 270423
Temporal Demarcations.
Figural Workshop.
Confronting The Human Body.
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The Psychology of Nakedness.
Looking/Showing/The Eye/The Gaze.
In the scopic field, the gaze is outside; I am looked at, that is to say, I am a picture.
The spectacle of the world, in this sense, appears to us as all-seeing, this all-seeing aspect is to be found in the satisfaction of a woman who knows that she is being looked at, on condition that one does not show her that one knows that she knows.
Jacques Lacan.
What is a Picture.
The Split between The Eye and the Gaze.
A Body of Relations.
Reconfiguring The Life Class.
In the article What is a Picture? Jaques Lacan relates the space between the gaze and the eye to the 'screen'. The 'screen' allows the simultaneous perception and projection of the image. In the life class, Lacan's gaze is significant for the life model and the artist as it formulates the intentions of the psychological engagement and reveals the fundamental pursuit of desire in the methodology of life drawing practice. The subject needs to become an object of its own 'scopic drives' and therefore possessed by the perception of others. Lacan's gaze is somewhat estranged from the body, as it never allows for subjectivity to be fully complete.
Yuen Fong Ling. 2016
Palimpsest/Involuntary Surfaces.
Drawing/Corporeal Intertwinings of body/space.
Bodyscapes/Movements/Materials.
Haptic/Visual Abstractions.
Life Class/Drawing.
The contested space/subject of the nude as a form of art.
The Impossible Nude.
Transfer/Temporal/Media.
Dyeline Sheet/Rolled Inked Surface.
Charcoal/Burnt Umber/Pencil
Shading Colour/Glass Pigments/Fired Glass.
Tuesday, 9 May 2023
Seeing Dark Things : Chemical Photography/Images from the darkroom.
Concept of a 'Filtow'
A filtered radiance emanating from a vessel not an object interrupting a beam of light.
Seeing Dark Things.
Roy Sorensen.
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The thing contained is not the thing contained.
The spherical intersection space was also crafted in curved thin wood layers.
Steven Holl.
The Representation of Deep Time.
The Mutability of Colour Relationships.
Unleashed Colour World.
Manifestations of Unhindered Radiance.
Albers, yellow square.
Monrian, square of yellow in its field of white.
For both Mondrian and Winifred Nicholson, colour concentrates light and transforms the world.
Flowers were sparks of light.
I used flowers as chalices of light to make my own pictures.
My Cibachrome darkroom has been as much a domestic space as the Alber's basement and Winifred Nicholson's farmhouse kitchen. They are places where ideas about the emotional range of a yellow square can exist as naturally as reflections and shadows cast by the sun and moon.
In this new colour world of mine, the circle became nature, and the square became thought.
The circle and square together embody what I think of as human nature.
Dark Room, Garry Fabian Miller.
Generating an Aura.
Fusing and Pulsating Pigment.
Pinhole Photography
Photo Tin/Medium.
Cromer.
Raveningham.
Site Cyanotypes/Drawings/Intermediaries
Spatial Collages Reconfigured
Saturday, 6 May 2023
Friday, 5 May 2023
Blue Planet : Bioscleave/Blue Particle Cloud/Diagram.
ARCHITECTURAL Body
An ORGANISM that PERSONS
Gins and Arakawa 2002
Although the human condition is a crisis condition if ever there was one, few individuals and societies act with the dispatch a state of emergency requires. The fact that the human condition is a crises condition gets routinely covered up, with culture invariably functioning to obscure how dire the condition is and to float it as bearable
If organisms form themselves as persons by uptaking the environment, then they involve not only bodies but domains, spheres of activity and influence
Start by thinking of architecture as a tentative constructing toward a holding in place. Architecture's holding in place occurs within and as part of a prevailing atmospheric condition that others routinely call biosphere but which we, feeling the need to stress its dynamic nature, have renamed bioscleave
Procedural Architure/Architectural Body
Gins and Arakawa
The role of architecture as a tool for researching the body-environment towards the implementation of these considerations is paramount
The goal of an experimental teaching and learning space based on architectural procedures would be that the process of design and construction would allow students/staff to rethink, re-imagine and enact the curriculum
An Arakawa and Gins Experimental Teaching Space/A Feasibility Study 2013
Jondi Keane
An Architecture of Viability
To help to sustain one throughout life/ to stay tentative
Bioscleave House as an inter-active laboratory of everyday life
Wayfinding (unpacking discourse/meaning) through Landing Sites and Architectural Bodies
What is the metachallenge that bioscleave demands of us? Is it, I propose, wayfinding, a wayfinding defined at many scales from finding one's way as a person to finding one's way in a strange physical or social environment
Exploring the Roles of Trajectoriness, Affectivatoriness, and Imaging Along 2013
Reuben M. Baron
Figure/Ground : Double Occupations of Discourses and Events (relationships/co-existances)
So as a diagram (performative agent), the figure/ground does not function to represent even something real. But rather constructs a real that is yet to come (theoretical object/apparatus) as a new type of reality
Situated Field/Constructed Site of People, Institutions, Apparatuses, Events, Discourses
We see intraventions as heuristic devices, as apparatuses that are imbued with a will to transform.
The intravention is not autonomous but contingent and relational and dependent on many other things
The intravention is made as it happens, and it makes us at the same time
Immediate Architectural Interventions, Durations and Effects
Oren Lieberman, Alberto Altes
AEffect initiating Heuristic Life
Procedural architecture, developed in both their written and buillt discourse, providing a process by which to connect theory to practice, disciplinary inquiry to knowledge and art to life
Research should be conducted , not in a library or laboratory but where living happens, enabling the complexity of relationships to be studied within and across the organism-person-environment
Jondi Keane
Carnal Knowledge
Towards a New Materialism through the Arts
Estelle Barrett, Barbara Bolt
To provide observational heuristic devices so that persons may devise transformational and reconfigurative opportunities
Heuristic tools whether built hypothesis or discursive sequences, are of no use if they do not provide a way forward, a way of learning
This house is a tool, a procedural one
A functional tool, whether it be a hammer, a telephone, or a telescope, extends the senses, but a procedural tool examines and reorders the sensorium
Interlude : Cornering a Beginning
An object becomes the threshold for thinking feeling
Relationscapes : Movement, Art, Philosopy
Erin Manning
Born into a new territory, and that territory is myself as organism. There is no place to go but here. Each organism that persons finds the new territory that is itself, and having found it, adjusts it
Ellipsis,(gaps in everyday narratives)
The Construction of Representation of Identity
Using their bodies and immediate surroundings and environment as both subject and context
An Organism-Person-Environment
You cannot see me from where I look at myself
Francesca Woodman
An organism-person-environment has given birth to an organism-person-environment
Bioscleave
Chaos, Territory, Art
Deleuze and the framing of the earth
Elizabeth Grosz
Body, Personal Relations, Spatial Values
Upright Human Body : Space and Time
Yi Fu Tuan
Figuring It Out
The Parallel Visions of Artists and Archaeologists
Colin Renfrew
The act of relating is analysed as a constitutive feature of human agency. Relating is viewed as the continuous work of connecting and disconnecting in a fluctuating network of existential events
Categories and things may make it easier for us to grasp reality but they also hide its underlying complexities
Relationality 2005
Robert Cooper
Brian Clarke : The Art of Light
Godfrey Reggio
We have art so that we may not perish by the truth
Friedrich Nietzsche
Water and Dreams
An essay on the imagination of matter
Gaston Bachelard
Architecture was no longer an autonomous and isolated discipline but it now participated in the movement and confrontation of ideas.
Architecture In/Between
Bernard Tschumi
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