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…

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…

Kengo Kuma, anti object, hut, poetics of shelter in the immediate environment Thinkers and Vessel Makers. Weaving the body into architecture Kengo Kuma Poetics as an evolving and discursive system of dialogues that acknowledges environmental changes, of other spatial narratives and histories, and things that are not just about place and space. ‘The phenomenology of…

Photographic Ruins/Mixtures and Dissolutions : Sontag, Tarkovsky, Barthes.  Ruins are buildings which have lost their function and have turned into instruments for measuring time. ROLAND BARTHES MYTHICAL SPEECH, LANGUAGE-OBJECT: PLINY THE ELDER: NATURAL HISTORY, translation H. Rackham 1952. BOOK 35 Origins of Painting (XXXV, 5). The question as to the origin of the art of…

Speculative Indexes of Agency : Template and Form/Enchantments and Insights between materials     THE BODY AS A TERRITORY IN RAW CLAY Developing Formative Histories/Indexical and Involuntary Markings Observational essay/account whilst work is resident in the Yard, Pastoral Space: Material, Inquiry and Craft Temporality. The state of existing within or having some relationship with time.…

Hiding Making Showing Creation : The Studio from Turner to Tacita Dean 2013, Academia post  Making : Tim Ingold The Materials Of Life Re-Shaping Learning You read the paper FROM IMAGE TO INTERACTION: MEANING AND AGENCY IN THE ARTS. A related paper is available on Academia. Rachel Esner, Sandra Kisters, Ann-Sophie Lehmann (eds), Hiding Making, Showing…