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Cyanotypes : Creative Ecologies The sun has gone mad and stripped the earth of its ionosphere. For decades blasting radiation has poured upon earth, melting the polar caps and turning permafrost into streams, rivers, oceans. Huge deltas have been built, lakes formed, seas have risen. The Drowned World, JG Ballard. Blueprints : Anthropological Forms Botanical…

Art and Architecture : a place between, Jane Rendell, Peter Greenaway, Intertextuality/Transparency  OPEN TEXTS. Allow readers to have multiple interpretations, they allow for the possibility of  “determinations”. Intertextuality fundamental concept “that no text much as it might like to appear so, is original and unique in itself. Rather it is a tissue of the inevitable…

The origins of painting and the scepticism of drawing : Architectural surface for a place of study/studio Painting as an exploratory layered drawing for an architectural surface in a library a shadow or an eidolen, an image without substance OUTPOST Studio/Cyanotype Process Painting THE MYTH: PLINY THE ELDER : NATURAL HISTORY,translation H. Rackham 1952. BOOK…

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…