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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  • Drawing/Openings and Conclusions/Collages for the Reading Room : Heuristic/Discursive/Practical/Agency

    Wednesday, 9 June 2021 Drawing/Openings and Conclusions/Collages for the Reading Room : Heuristic/Discursive/Practical/Agency Ordinary things contain the deepest mysteries On the horizon, then, at the furthest edge of the possible, it is a matter of producing the space of the human species-the collective (generic) work of the species-on the model of what used to be…

  • Other ways, other than buildings of making : Reading Rooms/Performative Collages and Models

    Other ways, other than buildings of making : Reading Rooms/Performative Collages and Models Spatial Agency : Other ways of thinking about social space and its architectural structuring. Other ways, other than buildings of making a spatial difference. Collage and Architecture. Jennifer A. E. Shields Collage Methodologies in Architectural Analysis + Design Architecture as Collage Social…

  • Painting/Abstraction/Assemblage/Beyond Discourse : Architectural Plan/ Library/Victorian Corset/Blueprint/Spatial Frame

    Tuesday, 8 June 2021 Painting/Abstraction/Assemblage/Beyond Discourse : Architectural Plan/ Library/Victorian Corset/Blueprint/Spatial Frame Postmodernity is no more than ‘modernity’ without illusions Zygmunt Bauman We are less interested in whether we are living in a critical or post-critical era, because these terms circle round each other. Indeed, it is the fate of all ‘post’ terms (postmodern, post-critical,…

  • Spatial Agency/The Arts and the dance of thinking : The body is open to the intensities of the present.

    Sunday, 6 June 2021 Spatial Agency/The Arts and the dance of thinking : The body is open to the intensities of the present. BIOSPHERE And all of our thinking, for its part, forms its own ecosystem as well. Mind is an ecological phenomenon, the result of a collective dance. Gregory Bateson was fascinated by the…

  • Body Politics : Drawing Geographies

    Saturday, 5 June 2021 Body Politics : Drawing Geographies Figure/Foreground : Drawing/Sensing In drawing the moments of choice have been kept visible. John Berger, Berger On Drawing. A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artists own needs. The Drawn Line-A Recession-A Past Statement Brought Forward The Body of Drawing Drawings by…

  • Teaching Drawing Concepts : Oskar Schlemmer/Calvin Albert

      Teaching Drawing Concepts : Oskar Schlemmer/Calvin Albert Oskar Schlemmer, Man.1971 Lund Humphries/MIT, London, Oskar Schlemmer’s conception of man Syllabuses/Teaching Schedules Drawing from the nude Measurement and proportion Natural sciences Figure drawing Philosophy Psychology Question and answers to the preliminary course ‘man’ Postscript Figure Drawing Comes To Life, Albert Seckler. 1957 Reinhold Publishing Corporation, New…

  • Bodies in Spaces : Interiors and Outposts

    Bodies in Spaces : Interiors and Outposts Drawing into the contemporary sociological imagination Intermezzo : Nomadic Photographic Assemblage a thousand plateaus Deleuze, Guattari Assemblage Becoming Body Without Organs Nomad Rhizome Smooth Space State War Machine www.rhizomes.net/issue5/poke/glossary.html The Uberficiation of the University BY MARK CARRIGAN ON NOVEMBER 22, 2016• ( 0 ) sociologicalimagination.org/archives/18986 The Sharing Economy…

  • Researching Bodies/Discursive Collages : Theoretical Objects/Desiring Machines/Diversions/Anomalies/Contradictions

    Researching Bodies/Discursive Collages : Theoretical Objects/Desiring Machines/Diversions/Anomalies/Contradictions   OUTPOST STUDIO 3.16 Sensations in Space and Time (the experience/entanglement of phenomena and idea) Agency/Foraging/Making/Gathering Subjectivity is relational (always in process) A Species of Making Spaces Tentativeness, attentive to situatedness A diffractive methodology enables a critical rethinking of science and the social in their relationality, moving beyond…

  • Life Drawing : An Emotional History of The Performative/Rhizomatic Body

    Life Drawing : An Emotional History of The Performative/Rhizomatic Body Humanity : An Emotional History Stuart Walton. 2004 Fear Anger Disgust Sadness Jealousy Contempt Shame Embarrassment Surprise Happiness Oxford Dictionary of Geography: spatiality The effect that space has on actions, interactions, entities, concepts, and theories. Physical spatiality can also be metaphorical. It is used to…

  • Visual Poetics/Bricolage : The Studio/Space of Real Situations

    Visual Poetics/Bricolage : The Studio/Space of Real Situations Spatial Collage : Research/Discourse/Apparatus Farnham University of the Creative Arts rhythmanalysis : Space, Time and Everyday Life. Lefebvre Jannis Kounellis Carlo Scarpa Translates the painterly relationship of figure and ground into the space of real situations The Visual Poetics of Jannis Kounellis, Suzanne Cotter and Andrew Nairne.…