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Figuring it out : Display and Process.  Outpost 010323 The Parallel Visions of Artists and Archaeologists. Figuring It Out. Colin Renfrew. Archaeologists/Artists, intuitively working with materials that are local and quotidian. New insights into the way humans use things/people/the earth. Encounters. Art as archaeology, archaeology as art. What is Art. The tyranny of the renaissance.…

Jozef van Wissem – sola gratia (Live @ Bimhuis – Amsterdam) : The Scriptorium. The Scriptorium, asperities with sound, built spaces, movement and materials.  #russell moreton, architecture, asperity, brevity, chamber, collage, crystalline, dryness, Jozef Van Wissem, lute, minimalist, patient phrases, photogram, repetition, samples, scriptorium   Social apparatuses and agents that explore the possibilities of space. Other Worlds : Insistent moments of mark making/subjectivity. Source: Jozef van Wissem – sola gratia…

Fields/Landscapes of Inquiry : A Spatial Practice  Outpost 010223 A Spatial Practice. Bring things to life, creative entanglements in a world of materials. Art/Ontology/Education/Philosophy. Creative practice is a meshwork of what shall I do next? Tim Ingold. Things in general, like the mind-leak. Iteration, following the forces/flows. Organism-Person-Environment Gins/Arakawa. Improvisation is to join with the…

Inquiry is essentially the way of learning : Fragile Architectures of Hapticity and Time In an era in which architecture is once more learning its potential as a form of inquiry, rather than as a service — as a producer of knowledge, and not merely of ‘projects’. Brett Steele, Atlas-Tectonics in Barkow Leibininger, Bricoleur Bricolage.…

Making/Photography/Process and Aesthetics Found Objects : Archaeological Photogram When you make photograms, without the use of a camera, you can indeed call that abstract photography, as the lens and the corresponding registration medium are lacking. No longer do you have pictures of reality or objects; you only have their shadows. It is a bit like…

Earthbound : Alternative Processes/Art/Archaeology/Philosophy  The Archaeological Site : Speculative Fields/Spatial Practices What are we? Art/Archaeology. Contact Photography. Historical Presence #4 Figuring it out. What are we? Where do we come from? The parellel visions of artists and archaeologists. Colin Renfrew. Do you live as Humans in the Holocene or as Earthbound in the Anthropocene? (50.37)…

Sensing Places : Dwelling/Making/Attention/Environments Russell Moreton Artist Statement 2023 Spatial practitioner employing a  speculative site based practice linking visual fine art, education, architecture and philosophy. Interested in duration and experience, repetition and improvisation, together with intuitive working methods that are local and quotidian. Architectural Body Organism/Person/Environment. Awareness that repetitions and rituals can give meaning to…

Pure Presence : Ethics/Aesthetics/Politics, Jane Bennett 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. Jane Bennett challenges that view. She seeks to…

Panspermia 2010/Banga, Patti Smith : Layered Drawings/Silent readings/diagrams/ceramics of imaginary space Patti Smith – After The Gold Rush – Banga, 2012 (A Neil Young Song). Reading : Slow Philosophy With Fire, Richard Hirsch A Life Between Chance and Design (invites the unknown) Scott Meyer 2012 Hirsch takes us to the heart of the interface between ageless…

A Vessel Defines Emptiness As Presence : Craft, Studio Practice /Theory and Analysis on Hans Coper, Edmund De Waal, Martin Heidegger STUDIO PRACTICE, THEORY AND ANALYSIS. MA SCHOOL OF CRAFTS AND DESIGN. Working Notes : Brockwood Granary 2014 Theory and Analysis Documents, UCA Farnham Working Contexts/Title : Spatial/Making analogies/relationscapes “Innerness” in Ceramics/Architecture and Philosophy/Painting BUILDing…