Russell Moreton : Matter(s) in Correspondence

Spatial practices of clay, ceramic, drawing, bodies, places and making.

Spatial Practice

Architecture, sites, spatial situations, bodies, inhabitation, installations, spatial propositions.

Ceramic Bodies

Clay, ceramic sculpture, vessels, apertures, surfaces, firing, ceramic interiors, ceramic atmospheres.

Drawing / Image

Drawing, cyanotype, photography, diagram, mapping, collage, visual experiments.

Interiority / Atmosphere

Bachelard, refuge, reverie, innerness, thresholds, chambers, light, shadow, atmosphere, sensing.

Making / Materiality

Studio practice, making, material resistance, gesture, process, firing, construction, surface, force.

Research / Working Texts

Reading, theoretical writing, notes, research propositions, older texts being re-entered, speculative learning.

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Making is the production of relations through material events. What I think is emerging is an ontology of making. The clay isn’t the subject. The object isn’t the outcome. Even process isn’t the central concern. The central concern is relation. Relation between body and matter. Relation between force and resistance. Relation between object and space. Relation between time and form. Relation between making and knowing. Visual artist working in the UK. UCA Farnham, Interior Design MA. Canterbury School of Architecture, Spatial Practices MA. University of Southampton, Visual Fine Art BA hons. Epsom School of Art and Design, Ceramics HSND.

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  • Localities of experience and research : Making Entangled

    Localities of experience and research : Making Entangled Making Entangled : An eclectic synthesis of knowledge fields Confronting Spatial Intelligence-tracing the use of spatial intelligence. What are we learning about in the concrete particularity of this space? Leon van Schaik : Spatial Intelligence ‘Architecture is the product of our spatial intelligence, of its workings in…

  • Learning-In-The-Making/Processual Learning : Reading/Intraventions at Hungate.

    Learning-In-The-Making/Processual Learning : Reading/Intraventions at Hungate. HUNGATE Staging of a caring curiosity that wants to know and understand and explore relations. Site Visit/Working Notes. 070223 Hungate, Norwich. Building/Surface Movements : Breathing Forms Water/Light/Vessel/Body : Sacred/Secular/Holy/Profane Scriptorium, Waverley Abbey Project Collage/Matters of Concern : Discursive/Graphic/Diagrammatic/Mappings https://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/ Architectural Body A Holding In Place Dwelling/Situatedness/Inhabitation A Domain Of…

  • Speculative Projective Reading/Making : Life outside the circle of architecture

    Speculative Projective Reading/Making : Life outside the circle of architecture In troubled times they all sought to experience life away from social definitions of success or failure. From there, these primitive huts marked personal, original inquires into the ever-mysterious nature of human existence. Anne Cline. A Hut of One’s Own Life Outside The Circle Of…

  • Ceramics and Architecture : Making Things, Perception/Thought/Action

    Ceramics and Architecture : Making Things, Perception/Thought/Action  Outpost 100223 Architecting and its ecologies/matters of concern. The body’s participation in explorations, engagements and its care in attending to the values of immediacy, vulnerability, fragility, improvisation, performance, movement, multiplicity and becoming. Apparatuses and their ecologies for learning. The choreographic object/agent. The role of the body is scored…

  • Aesthetics and Subjectivity : Experiential Spaces/The feeling of what happens

    Aesthetics and Subjectivity : Experiential Spaces/The feeling of what happens Tides of Being/Becoming Antonio Damasio The Feeling of What Happens Body, Emotion and the Making of Consciousness Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Reverie. Nick Cave, The Lyre of Orpheus. Hildur Gudnadottir, Saman. Albert Camus, analogue, Antonio Damasio, emotion, Gaston Bachelard, Hildur Gudnadottir, light, liminal, movement, Nick Cave, phenomenal lens, soundscapes, The Poetics of Reverie, tide, water   Social apparatuses…

  • Maternal Body/Dwelling Place : Clay Impression and Fragmented Form/Raku Beaker Form

    Maternal Body/Dwelling Place : Clay Impression and Fragmented Form/Raku Beaker Form Auguries into the maternal body. Un-fired clay and silica sand. Constructed in-situ at the Yard, Winchester. A life-size record and memory of a human presence as a site for mutual introspection. Inspired in part from the novel  ” The  Children of Men ”  by…

  • Mesh/Material/Light : Cyanotype Process/Drawing Place

    Mesh/Material/Light : Cyanotype Process/Drawing Place Movements and Archaeology  : Traces and Piercings. Cyanotype photogram from Winchester Cathedral with pinholes. The Cathedral : Place Studies Pastoral Space: Material, Inquiry and Craft. Material Agency : Carl Knappett, Lambros Malafouris Visualising Environmental Agency “Agents are defined as persons or things, which have the ability and intention to “cause”…

  • Processual Drawing : Bioscleave/Blue Particle Cloud/Diagram.

    Processual Drawing : Bioscleave/Blue Particle Cloud/Diagram.     ARCHITECTURAL Body An ORGANISM that PERSONS Gins and Arakawa 2002 Although the human condition is a crisis condition if ever there was one, few individuals and societies act with the dispatch a state of emergency requires. The fact that the human condition is a crises condition gets…

  • Fields/Landscapes of Inquiry : A Spatial Practice

    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…

  • Working Out of the Archive : Praesentia

    Working Out of the Archive : Praesentia Heidegger’s Topology Things exist rooted in the flesh (R. S. Thomas) Being, Place, World Jeff Malpas. 2008 David Smith : Sprays, The Absent Object. Peter Stevens Eidetic Image, Nearness/Proximity/Atmosphere Temporal Structures, Unthinking Eurocentrism The Political Writing of Adam Kuper and Tim Ingold Justin Kenrick. 2011 Pottery, The mindfulness…