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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  • 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…

  • Aesthetics of the Everyday : A Creative Human Praxis Working Praxis into Creative Research Clay, Paint, Matter/Everyday Landscapes The Subject Matter of Lived Experience The Potter’s wheel creates cognitive enactments (materiality) through encountering clay. The Heideggerian Roots of Everyday Aesthetics A Hermeneutical Approach to Art Cristian Hainic The mere aesthetic experience of understanding one’s being-in-the-world…

  • Astronomical Mappings/Hybrid Musical Sources : Amorphous Analogue Photography : Star Trails/Earth Objects Amorphous Photography : Star Trails Inscriptions of Birth/Becoming : Poetics of Memory Side C 10. Sola Gratia (Part 2)- Jozef Van Wissem et SQURL   Amorphous Photography : Star Trails Inscriptions of Birth/Becoming : Poetics of Memory Side C 10. Sola Gratia (Part…

  • Objects and Traces/Map Reading : Visual Archaeology/Anthropology in Social Space The map fosters interpretation and exploration Inseparable Attendant : Place and Process Assemblage and blueprint : Site drawing/Leper Graves Drawing figure/ground, documentation of work in progress. Life “drawing” trace on paper with water and field chalk. Work submitted to Interfaith Group Show at the Link…