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Politics of Architecture : Theorising through speculative spatial (practices)/agency Spatial Agency Other Ways Of Doing Architecture Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider, Jeremy Till. As buildings become  matters of concern, they enter into socially embedded networks, in which the consequences of architecture are of much more significance than the objects of architecture. Beyond Discourse : Notes on…

Discursive Documents/Architectures of Entanglements : Enchantment/Somantic Affects/Assemblage and Texts The dynamic, and hence temporal, nature of space means that spatial production must be understood as part of an evolving sequence, with no fixed start or finish, and that multiple actors contribute at various stages. Spatial Agency, Jeremy Till. Exploratory, Textual Entanglements, Perceptual Relationships. DSC_8759 Discursive…

Politics of Architecture : Theorising through speculative spatial (practices)/agency Spatial Agency Other Ways Of Doing Architecture Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider, Jeremy Till. As buildings become  matters of concern, they enter into socially embedded networks, in which the consequences of architecture are of much more significance than the objects of architecture. Beyond Discourse : Notes on…

Observatories/Astronomical Images/Libraries : Slow reading/seeing as a thing, not as a resource Astronomical Images/Observatories/Libraries To read slowly, deeply, looking cautiously before and aft, with reservations, with doors left open, with delicate eyes and fingers. Friedrich Nietzsche To read is to be attentive to the trace of the other, and this attention takes time. Additionally, and…

Atemwende, a breathturn : Adam Gopnik and Edmund de Waal Craft and Art, Skill and Anxiety. Craft is logic, and art defies it. The defiance is what makes art. The serenity of the artisan lies in her knowledge that it can all be done again. The anxiety of the artist; lies in knowing that if…

Wednesday, 26 May 2021 Littoral Environments : Arts and Subjectivity (the making of things) Text Extract/Inclusion. “Pure Presence” The enchantment of modern life: attachments, crossings, and ethics : Jane Bennett 2001. It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted–that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition.…

Drawing Rooms : Cyanotypes/Collages/Photography Slow Philosophy. 2017 Reading against the institution Michelle Boulous Walker Saturnian Form : Lead and Library Dates Russell Moreton Emilio Prini The filter and welcome to the angel, 1967 Environment with participants, doves, artificial green grass, socks, ultra-violet light. Dimensions variable, Installation, Studio Bentivoglio, Bologna. Artist-run exhibition space Emilio Prini well…

Wanderlust : Visual Feelings of Anarchism and Beauty Wanderlust : A History of Walking, Rebecca Solnit. The Mind at Three Miles an Hour This kind of unstructured, associative thinking is the kind most often connected to walking, and it suggests walking as not an analytical but improvisational act. Land : Antony Gormley, Clare Richardson, Jeanette…

Primordial Memory/Dreaming/Making/Corporeality : Antony Gormley/Francesca Woodman/Bodies, movements of becoming Concept of the Body : Merleau-Ponty Fundamental assumption that the body was not an object, the body is the condition and context through which I am able to have relations with objects. The mind in its insertion in (creating/becoming) corporeality creates the ambiguous relation with our…

Diffractive Surfaces : Imaginative Cartographies Speculative Fields/Spatial Practices Discursive Reading (against linearity)/New Modalities of Inquiry New Generative Boundaries/Situatedness Wayfinding and Heuristic/Everyday Practices Reading is also thinking through the body Viscous Porosity/Flesh of the world Enfleshed Materialism/Membranes that affect interactions Words Become Material Troubleyn Laboratorium/Jan Fabre In this moment the words become a performative agent writing…