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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…

Thursday, 1 July 2021 Theatre/Studio : Art Practice in Re-imagining Education Hidden Curriculum : Art Practices in Education Speculative Learning Environments : Discursive and practical methods of inquiry. Contexts : Conference/Symposium, Practice Based Research, Public Art, Socially Engaged, Technical/Fabrication, Curatorial, Educational Project, Further Education, Artforms : Mixed Media, Printmaking, Painting, Drawing, Architecture, Environment, Intervention, Performance,…

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 defining point of agency is namely its potential to transform the given. Spinoza : Practical Philosophy by Gilles Deleuze Bento’s Sketchbook : John Berger Beams and Netting: Negotiations in the…

The Social Life of Making : Thoughts with materials, making good, occupation and maintenance  A Species of Spaces The Social Turn Museum Site and Display Political Philosophy We have all the choice in the world in terms of products, but very little choice in terms of the kind of economy within which those things are…

MAKING as a process of iteration : Painting and geographies of matter Making Ecological Politics A world teeming with impulsive movements, deviations and many other lively (capacious) materialities. Influences that pervade, enable, and disrupt us. Vibrant Matter, Jane Bennett Makers work in a world that does not stand still Iteration allows for continual correction (material…

Transactive Spatial Agents : Anticipation and Action/Affective Energies/Luminosity     Textures of Light : Vision and Touch in Irigarey, Levinas and Merleau-Ponty : Cathryn Vasseleu. Bento’s Sketchbooks : John Berger. 2015 Spinoza, practical philosophy : Gilles Deleuze. 2001 A concise and illuminating book about the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza, one of the early thinkers of the…

Reclamations/Ruins on the photographic surface : Volatile Inscriptions around the Body The Photographic Image/Volatile Bodies/Architectural Ruins Helena Eflerova Interior Spaces, Waverley Abbey. The future must no longer be determined by the past. I do not deny that the effects of the past are still with us. But I refuse to strengthen them by repeating them,…

Spatial Mediators and Intercessors : Creating Loops/Rhetorical Silences/Strange Tools Immaterial Architectures Painting/Form for Reading Spaces/Intervals Pattern and Chaos/Liminality/Tectonics Architectural surface for a Library,  raw materials, light, silence and solitude. Christopher Wilmarth ; Poetics/Duality of Light and gravity Other Architecture Constructing Metaphysical Space Wilmarth’s art reveals his essential concern with the mystical and physical properties of…

Dwelling/Reverberation/Poetics : Physical Grammar/Passages On The Experiential Level of Life Investigating/Expanding ‘The Spatial/Sculptural’ Space over Time/Operative Design Tony Cragg IN AND OUT OF MATERIAL Demonstration Tony Cragg : I basically mean the effectiveness of the object, of the material. But because the metaphysical and physical association are already occupied, I’m interested in somehow establishing some…

Art as Experience : Interactions of Color/ Art as Experience, Josef Albers GLASS-COLOUR-LIGHT-INTERIOR-LANDSCAPE ART AS EXPERIENCE WHAT IS THE CAPACITY OF THE MATERIAL Josef Albers Life is change-day and night, cold and warm, sun and rain. It is more in-between the facts than the facts themselves. I believe it is now time to make a…