Russell Moreton : Matter(s) in Correspondence

Spatial practices of clay, ceramic, drawing, bodies, places and making.

Spatial Practice

Architecture, sites, spatial situations, bodies, inhabitation, installations, spatial propositions.

Ceramic Bodies

Clay, ceramic sculpture, vessels, apertures, surfaces, firing, ceramic interiors, ceramic atmospheres.

Drawing / Image

Drawing, cyanotype, photography, diagram, mapping, collage, visual experiments.

Interiority / Atmosphere

Bachelard, refuge, reverie, innerness, thresholds, chambers, light, shadow, atmosphere, sensing.

Making / Materiality

Studio practice, making, material resistance, gesture, process, firing, construction, surface, force.

Research / Working Texts

Reading, theoretical writing, notes, research propositions, older texts being re-entered, speculative learning.

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Making is the production of relations through material events. What I think is emerging is an ontology of making. The clay isn’t the subject. The object isn’t the outcome. Even process isn’t the central concern. The central concern is relation. Relation between body and matter. Relation between force and resistance. Relation between object and space. Relation between time and form. Relation between making and knowing. Visual artist working in the UK. UCA Farnham, Interior Design MA. Canterbury School of Architecture, Spatial Practices MA. University of Southampton, Visual Fine Art BA hons. Epsom School of Art and Design, Ceramics HSND.

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  • Studio Works

    Studio Works  Outpost 050822 The Thinking Field/Speculative Curriculums. The Body-In-Action/Making Spaces between Art, Architecture, Archaeology and Anthropology. Sequences of actions that add up to an observational-heuristic procedure. Conserved without restoration of lost detail. The problem of historical materials, which we can never ignore but can’t imitate directly either, is an issue that has always concerned…

  • Lightness/Synthesis/Solitude

    Lightness/Synthesis/Solitude  Outpost 190822 LIGHTNESS QUICKNESS EXACTITUDE VISIBILITY MULTIPLICITY Six Memos for The Next Millennium. Italo Calvino, 1992. The difference between the first versions I read and the final ones lies in structure, not content. Calvino wanted to call the sixth lecture ‘consistency’ and he planned to write it in Cambridge. I found the others, all…

  • Some approaches and interpretations of phenomenology in architecture.

    Some approaches and interpretations of phenomenology in architecture.  Outpost 020922 Perceptual Experience. On The Nature of Things. The notion of specific agential intra-actions in architectural practice. Thingification, the turning of relations into things,  entities, relata, all infects much of the way we understand the world and our relationship to it. Karen Barad sees reality composed…

  • Visual Substance : Inter-Subjective Encounters

    Visual Substance : Inter-Subjective Encounters Outpost 090222 Architectural Body/Procedural Architecture Organism/Person/Environment Earth, House, Hold, Dwelling Places. Unlike the sense of sight or hearing, only the sense of touch can discern space and time at once. The skin as the harbourer of a subjects sense of touch. Skin/Subjectivity becomes as flesh a connective tissue which both…

  • Radical Perspectives : Sky Watching /Outpost Studio Space

    Radical Perspectives : Sky Watching /Outpost Studio Space  Outpost 070922 Radical Perspectives. Space-time Manifolds. Intertwined cinemas within a bottle of light. Fissure space reflection on underside of suspended cinemas. Concept Studies/Diagrams. Space was perceived by the body moving through time. Parallax, Steven Holl. Plastic Media Performative Apparatuses. The Observer and The Observed. A return via…

  • Assemblages/Architectural Prototyping : Formative Ideas.

    Outpost 150922     Drawing Space. The Material Discursive. Figurative Configurations/Bodies and Landscapes. Jenny Saville. Intimate Drawings Wall Scratchings Situatedness of intra-activities. A matrix and an archive. It was the crucible of his art, and one of the most hauntingly eloquent spaces an artist has ever surrounded himself with. In Giacometti’s Studio. The hermit’s cave.…

  • Assemblages/Architectural Prototyping : Formative Ideas.

    Assemblages/Architectural Prototyping : Formative Ideas.  Outpost 220922 Architectural Prototyping. Formative Ideas. Setting things adrift in the direction of other assemblages. The Refrain. Deleuze and Guattari. Enchantment entails a state of wonder, and one of the distinctions of this state is the temporary suspension of chronological time and bodily movement. To be enchanted, then is to…

  • Spatial Diffractions : Architectures of Exclusion

    Social apparatuses and agents that explore the possibilities of space.Other Worlds : Insistent moments of mark making/subjectivity. Source: Spatial Diffractions : Architectures of Exclusion   Spatial Diffractions : Architectures of Exclusion  Outpost 280922 Peripheral Vision : Relationality. Categories and things may make it easier for us to grasp reality, but they also hide its underlying…

  • Social sites of space/situatedness/matter : Explorations in developing spatial intelligence

    Social apparatuses and agents that explore the possibilities of space. Other Worlds : Insistent moments of mark making/subjectivity. Source: Social sites of space/situatedness/matter : Explorations in developing spatial intelligence   Social sites of space/situatedness/matter : Explorations in developing spatial intelligence Discursive and practical apparatuses, both drawing on the other in the act of agency. The…

  • Caruso St John : The Phenomenology of Construction

    Social apparatuses and agents that explore the possibilities of space. Other Worlds : Insistent moments of mark making/subjectivity. Source: Caruso St John : The Phenomenology of Construction   Caruso St John : The Phenomenology of Construction THE PRESENCE OF THE BUILT OBJECT IN THE WORLD THROUGH THE MANNER IN WHICH IT IS BUILT. Caruso St…