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Confronting The Human Body : A Body Of Relations  Outpost 270423 Temporal Demarcations. Figural Workshop. Confronting The Human Body. The Psychology of Nakedness. Looking/Showing/The Eye/The Gaze. In the scopic field, the gaze is outside; I am looked at, that is to say, I am a  picture. The spectacle of the world, in this sense, appears…

Diffractive Title/Things : The thing contained is not the thing contained.  Outpost 240423 The thing contained is not the thing contained. Manifesto for explorations of ‘IN’ Steven Holl. You Are The Weather. Roni Horn. Rich Lyrical Motifs. Brilliant Trees. Within each lesson lies the price to learn. David Sylvian. Alternative Photography/Filtered Radiance Documents from research…

Exhibition/Intervention : The Sensitivities of The Physical Self  Outpost 130423 The Changing Culture of Display. How things work in museums. Body/Mind/Movement/Material/Craft Dynamics of Display inside The White Cube. Liminality of glass display cabinets, spatialities of object narratives, forms and materials. Artist as ‘interventionist’ in specific settings, such as collections and places of distinctive architecture. The…

The Social : Catching The Light/Architectural Apparatuses/Spatial Methodologies It would probably not be wrong to define the ex­treme phase of capitalist development in which we live as a massive accumulation and proliferation of apparatuses. To recapitulate, we have then two great classes: liv­ing beings (or substances) and apparatuses. And, be­ tween these two, as a…

Work : Filtered Light/Colour   https://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/ Brian Clarke The Art of Light/Paul Greenhalgh, 2018. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts Properties of Matter and Imagination FUSION OF PHYSICAL/METAPHYSICAL WORK : An Inquiry with Material Practice The poetics of glass as a super-cooled liquid. Molten Fluidity. An organic flux frozen for an instant. Chaos and order, flow…

The Creative Act : Energy/Abstractions from a dialectic between the poetic and the systematic.  Harleston 180423 Drawings/Concepts/Constructions are forms/movements of thought. Being mindful that materials can lead the way. Tony Cragg. Diffractive Documents Matters of Interest/Concern Pots are fashioned from clay, but its the hollow that makes the pot work. Tao Lao-Tzu The Brain Needs…

Re-registering Overlapping Spaces : Presentation/Ritual/Repetition.  Outpost 200423 A4 Ruled Notebook. Blue/April 2012. Amongst Lightness and The Reverberation of Material. Ceramic installation in white cube space. Open Pit Firing, Shards, Ash, Ceramic Pieces, Low Table, White Cloth, Human Outline We maybe more sophisticated in material ways, but we have not advanced spiritually beyond the axial age,…

Drawing Into The Human Form/The Architectural Body  Drawing Into The Human Form. Its conceptual frameworks, aesthetics and contexts. Inclusions/Enclosures/Involuntary Mappings and Erasures. Figuring it out, sensuality through making the drawing heard. Drawing from a blindness, a memory of seeing. Derrida. Drawing into the perspectives and  sociological relationships of the Architectural Body, organism/person/environment. Gins and Arakawa.…

Another/Alternative Photography : Apparatuses/Pattern Making/Redundancy/Collage  Outpost 060423 https://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/ Searching For Redundancy/Making Patterns Making. Time/Duration/Perception. What Is An Apparatus? Giorgio Agamben Bringing things back to life, to switch our perspective from the endless shuttling back and forth from image to object and from object to image, that is such a pronounced feature of academic writing in…

A Sensation of Looking/Manifesting Seeing  Outpost 310323 A Sensation of Looking/Manifesting Seeing Matters of Concern/Fact. Drawing/Contingency/Sensing/Seeing Drawing away from descriptive depictions that illustrate preconceptions/aesthetics. Julian Stair. Quietus. 2012. The Vessel. Death and The Human Body. There is an alchemy to making ceramics. We take an inert material, fashion it, dry it and expose it to…