KONTAKTE

Site Specificity : Camouflage

Site is anti-place hovering precariously over the abyss of no-place.
Edward S. Casey, The Fate of Place

Introduction : On Installation and Site Specificity
Erica Suderburg

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct as possible.
Allan Kaprow, 'The Event'

Box For Standing, 1961
Robert Morris

Body and Building
Essays On The Changing Relation Of Body And Architecture
Dodds, Tavernor

Observatory, 1971
Robert Morris

Rethinking Architecture
Neil Leach

There is at the core of contemporary existence a transcendental homelessness which Kracauer evokes so lucidly in his description of the hotel lobby, the quintessential space of modernity.

Camouflage
Neil Leach

Immaterial Architecture : Waverley Pavilion

Building The Drawing
The drawing as analogue allows more subtle relations, of technique, material and process, to develop between drawing and building.
Immaterial Architecture
The Illegal Architect
Jonathan Hill

Oak Tree
Oil
Paper
Plaster
Rust
Sgratfito
Silence
Sound
Steel
Television
Weather

Frosted Light
Index of immaterial architectures

TRANSPARENCY : LITERAL AND PHENOMENAL
Colin Rowe, Robert Slutzky

Interactions of the Abstract Body
Josiah McElheny

Object Lesson
Interactive Abstract  Body (Square)
The Spatial Body (After Fontana)

Tracing Eisenman
Stan Allen
Indexical Characters

FABRIC=MASS+ FORM
Alan Chandler
The interest in fabric formwork is in its deployment in a building process, which is faster than conventional formwork. Fabric formwork is inherently more sustainable due to the minimising of both concrete and shuttering, and more radically, allows the constructor to intervene in the process of casting even as the cast is taking place.


ANTI OBJECT
Kengo Kuma
We are composed of matter and live in the midst of matter. Our objective should not be to  renounce matter, but to search for a form of matter other than objects.
What that form is called- ARCHITECTURE, GARDENS< TECHNOLOGY is not important.

ReThinking Matereriality
The engagement of mind with the material world
Elizabeth DeMarrais, Chris Gosden, Colin Renfrew

The Affordances of Things
Towards a  Theory of Material Engagement
Aesthetics, Intelligence and Emotions
Relationality of Mind and Matter

Material Agency
Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach
Carl Knappett, Lambros Malafouris

At The Potter's Wheel : An Argument for Material Agency
We should replace our view of cognition as residing inside the potter's head, with that of cognition enacted at the potter's wheel.

The Neglected Networks of Material Agency : Artefacts, Pictures and Texts

Material Agency as Cognitive Scaffolding

The Cognitive Life of Things
Material Engagement and the Extended Mind
Lambros Malafouris, Colin Renfrew

Minds, Things and Materiality
Michael Wheeler

Communities of Things and Objects : A Spatial Perspective
Carl Knappett

Imagining the Cognitive Life of Things
Edwin Hutchins

Things and Their Embodied Environments
Architectures for Perception
Structuring Perception through Material Artifacts
Charles Goodwin

Leach Pottery, Studio and Museum
A Potter's Book
Bernard Leach

Adventures of the Fire, Vessels Through Time
Ceramic Pavilion
People make space, and space contains people
Ceramic space and life

Gordon Baldwin
Objects For A Landscape
David Whiting
Vessels-Spaces that cannot be drawn, rather they  need to be experienced.
Imagining a Vessel in a Rock on a Beach, 2006,(charcoal on paper)

The Architecture of The Ceramic Vessel
The use of the vessel in the investigation of our world.
The exploration through the dichotomy of the analysis between exterior and interior, of one pot to another and from  the message they convey.

MATERIAL MATTERS
ARCHITECTURE
AND MATERIAL PRACTICE
Katie Lloyd Thomas

PLENUMS : RETHINKING MATTER, GEOMETRY AND SUBJECTIVITY
Peg Rawes

ARCHITECTURE
IN THE AGE  OF DIVIDED REPRESENTATION
The Question of Creativity in the Shadow of Production
Dalibor Vesely
The Nature of Communicative Space
Creativity in the Shadow of Modern Technology
The Rehabilitation of Fragment
Towards a Poetics of Architecture

The Projective Cast
Architecture and its Three Geometries
Robin Evans
Architects do not produce geometry, they consume it

Analysing ARCHITECTURE
Simon Unwin
Geometries of Being
Architecture as Making Frames
Space and Structure

EMULSION/ANXIETY : Photographic Landscape

I do not start with the idea but with the experience
Peter Lanyon

The Experience of Landscape
Paintings, Drawings and Photographs
South Bank Centre

An Anthropology Of Landscape
Christopher Tilley, Kate Cameron-Daum

ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE
Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics
Timothy Morton

Ordinary Lives
Studies in the Everyday
Ben Highmore

The Art of Survival?
Jacqueline Rose
Essay for 'Elsewhere' Therese Oulton

Hermeneutic Philosophy and The Sociology of Art
Janet Wolff

Hermeneutics
Jens Zimmermann

http://russellmoreton.tumblr.com/archive

Working Towards a Secular Retreat in the Landscape

The 'exigencies' of the situation at hand.

Tim Ingold, MAKING.

 

Spatial Intelligence

New Futures for Architecture

Leon van Schaik

Spatial intelligence builds our mental space.

 

Sensing Spaces

Architecture Reimagined

 

Oak-Framed Buildings

Rupert Newman

 

Heidegger for Architects

Adam Sharr

 

MAKING

ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY

ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Tim Ingold

Touching objects, feeling materials

The Cathedral and the Laboratory

 

A Hut of One's Own

Anne Cline

 

Solar Pavilion

Alison and Peter Smithson

Architecture is not made with the brain

The Parallel of Art and Life

Aesthetics about Perception

Poetics about Production

 

HERZOG & DE MEURON

NATURAL HISTORY

My studio is a piece of architecture that is silent.

Speculative Architecture

On The Aesthetics of Herzog & De Meuron

Robert Kudieka

 

The Thinking Hand

Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture

Juhani Pallasmaa

 

The Architecture of Natural Light

Henry Plummer

 

Peter Zumthor

Hortus Conclusus

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

 

The Potentials of Spaces

The Theory and Practice of Scenography and Performance

Alison Oddey, Christine White

 

See Yourself Sensing

Redefining Human Perception

Madeline Schwartzman

 

Collage and Architecture

Jennifer A. E. Shields

 

COLLAGE

Assembling Contemporary Art

Sally O'Reilly

Construction/Abstraction

Body/Identity

Environments/Geographies

Taskscapes :

Remote Sensing : Medieval Structures 004, Cyanotype Print

https://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/albums/72157663430595528

Photographic Memory/Image/Text : Anthropocene

Photographic Documents :
Aerial Imagery/Remote Sensing
P1170832 Photographic Evidence
Photograph (350) Anthropocene
DSC_3449 Beach Document
Photograph (13) Illuminated Cathedral
P8200276 Immateriality/Paper Negative : Anti Object, Kengo Kuma















https://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/23720740749/in/dateposted-public/

Research Notes : Matters of The Mind/ Contemporary Art Practices

Information Processing and Performance in Traditional and Virtual Teams
The Role of Transactive Memory. Terri Griffith, Margret A. Neale
Research Paper No. 1643

Transactive Memory : A Contemporary Analysis of the Group Mind. Daniel M. Wegner.

Prehistory/Making of the Human Mind. Colin Renfrew. 2007

The Mind In The Cave. David Lewis-Williams. 2004
The Matter of Mind, Cathedrals of Intelligence/Steven Mithen

The Poetics of Space. Gaston Bachelard. 1958

The Poetics of Reverie, Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos. Gaston Bachelard. 1960


A particular cosmos forms around a particular image as soon as a poet gives the image a destiny of grandeur. The poet gives the real object its imaginary double, its idealized double. This idealized double is immediately idealizing, and it is thus that a universe is born from an expanding image.

O silence round like the earth
movements of the mute star
gravitation of fruit around the clay nucleus
May no one wound the Fruit
it is the past of joy which is becoming round.

Jean Cayrol
Reverie and Cosmos.175

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.

Biosphere (Ecology and Entropy) Cyanotype Drawing.

Installation : Working Environments

The Drawing Board, at The Granary, Brockwood.

Drawing.
Installation and Working Sites
Architectural Glass and Ceramics
Liquid Light and Pinhole Photography

In the "process" : Working in the Granary.

Russell Moreton
Spatial Practices MA, UCA Canterbury.
Visual artist who currently uses simple descriptive gestures and processes drawn directly from the human body. His practice continues to explore issues around "Spatiality" and the "Postmodern Human Condition". The use of site specificity and materials "at hand" are employed to further underpin the practitioners sense of place, memory and dwelling. His descriptive working narratives are in effect physical working ideas, spatial  entanglements between the relations of  life and art.

Hidden Curriculum #2
Speculative Learning Environment : Russell Moreton.
Re- Imagining Education, Brockwood Park School.

a thousand plateaus
Deleuze, Guattari

Assemblage
Becoming
Body Without Organs
Nomad
Rhizome
Smooth Space
State
War Machine

Camera Obscura : Kilquhanity 2011.

Dark Session's : Shadowy speculations in the pottery. Kilquhanity 2011

Silver gelatin prints from a "room obscura" set up at Kilquhanity, Scotland 2011 as part of "Back to Free school, Drawing out the Archive".

Camera Obscura : Reflections and the dark room.

DSC_2753 Cyanotype Projection for Poetry
Yard and Meter,Winchester.

Angelus Gallery, Winchester College
Russell Moreton : Exhibition and workshop of working practices.
Artist Statement/Chapel Arts Residency

Practitioner using the creative receptiveness of material  together with the inclusion of  drawing to harbour transits and passages of human presence, vulnerabilities centred around the human condition. My work adopts strategies which articulate a sense of absence and anonymity within the abandonment of the work to its location. I feel drawn to this registering of passage, encounter together with its farewell. The choice of materials gathered together implies a personal geography, with both an emotional and aesthetic  sense of locality and place. The  performative recording by physical means which renders itself as a trace of human presence, now becomes a  vacant territory open  for the consideration of others.
 My work continues to investigate this sense of material response with the performative trace of a human absences. The place-ment of these acts attempts to promote thresholds from which to reflect upon spatial, sociological and psychological conditions and perceptions.
Currently working in clay, low fired to produce and promote a fragile vessel. This vessel is  installed to act as a dwelling presence reverberating in a resting place.  from which work is drawn into the human form to register a surface of  absences resulting from past gestures and solitudes.

Russell Moreton a visual artist uses simple gestures of drawn Human traces gathered and presented amongst natural materials. Exploring themes around the Human condition, vulnerability and abandonment. Materials are employed to further underpin our sense of place and time. The act and gesture of drawing adds a ephemeral mark amongst the materiality and locality of place. Currently using clay to register these themes, installing work Augury Vessel 2010 into Chapel Arts as part of their research residency programme.