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  • Spatial/Diffractive Bodies Situated in Place : Matters of Fidelity and Precariousness.
  • Working Notes : Edmund de Waal : How the history of pottery and the philosophy of pottery has informed contemporary practice
  • Research~Creation
  • Dwelling Places : Raveningham Sculpture Trail.
  • Alchemy at Raveningham Sculpture Trail.

about

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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  • Bioscleave/Blue Particle Cloud/Diagram.

    March 4, 2021

    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 routinely covered up, with culture invariably functioning to obscure how dire the condition is and to float it as bearable
    If organisms form themselves as persons by uptaking the environment, then they involve not only bodies but domains, spheres of activity and influence
    Start by thinking of architecture as a tentative constructing toward a holding in place. Architecture’s holding in place occurs within and as part of a prevailing atmospheric condition that others routinely call biosphere but which we, feeling the need to stress its dynamic nature, have renamed bioscleave
    Procedural Architure/Architectural Body
    Gins and Arakawa
    The role of architecture as a tool for researching the body-environment towards the implementation of these considerations is paramount
    The goal of an experimental teaching and learning space based on architectural procedures would be that the process of design and construction would allow students/staff to rethink, re-imagine and enact the curriculum
    An Arakawa and Gins Experimental Teaching Space/A Feasibility Study 2013
    Jondi Keane
    An Architecture of Viability
    To help to sustain one throughout life/ to stay tentative
    Bioscleave House as an inter-active laboratory of everyday life
    Wayfinding (unpacking discourse/meaning) through Landing Sites and Architectural Bodies
    What is the metachallenge that bioscleave demands of us? Is it, I propose, wayfinding, a wayfinding defined at many scales from finding one’s way as a person to finding one’s way in a strange physical or social environment
    Exploring the Roles of Trajectoriness, Affectivatoriness, and Imaging Along 2013
    Reuben M. Baron
    Figure/Ground : Double Occupations of Discourses and Events (relationships/co-existances)
    So as a diagram (performative agent), the figure/ground does not function to represent even something real. But rather constructs a real that is yet to come (theoretical object/apparatus) as a new type of reality
    Situated Field/Constructed Site of People, Institutions, Apparatuses, Events, Discourses
    We see intraventions as heuristic devices, as apparatuses that are imbued with a will to transform.
    The intravention is not autonomous but contingent and relational and dependent on many other things
    The intravention is made as it happens, and it makes us at the same time
    Immediate Architectural Interventions, Durations and Effects
    Oren Lieberman, Alberto Altes
    AEffect initiating Heuristic Life
    Procedural architecture, developed in both their written and buillt discourse, providing a process by which to connect theory to practice, disciplinary inquiry to knowledge and art to life
    Research should be conducted , not in a library or laboratory but where living happens, enabling the complexity of relationships to be studied within and across the organism-person-environment
    Jondi Keane
    Carnal Knowledge
    Towards a New Materialism through the Arts
    Estelle Barrett, Barbara Bolt
    To provide observational heuristic devices so that persons may devise transformational and reconfigurative opportunities
    Heuristic tools whether built hypothesis or discursive sequences, are of no use if they do not provide a way forward, a way of learning
    This house is a tool, a procedural one
    A functional tool, whether it be a hammer, a telephone, or a telescope, extends the senses, but a procedural tool examines and reorders the sensorium
    Interlude : Cornering a Beginning
    An object becomes the threshold for thinking feeling
    Relationscapes : Movement, Art, Philosopy
    Erin Manning
    Born into a new territory, and that territory is myself as organism. There is no place to go but here. Each organism that persons finds the new territory that is itself, and having found it, adjusts it
    Ellipsis,(gaps in everyday narratives)
    The Construction of Representation of Identity
    Using their bodies and immediate surroundings and environment as both subject and context
    An Organism-Person-Environment
    You cannot see me from where I look at myself
    Francesca Woodman
    An organism-person-environment has given birth to an organism-person-environment
    Bioscleave
    Chaos, Territory, Art
    Deleuze and the framing of the earth
    Elizabeth Grosz
    Body, Personal Relations, Spatial Values
    Upright Human Body : Space and Time
    Yi Fu Tuan
    Figuring It Out
    The Parallel Visions of Artists and Archaeologists
    Colin Renfrew
    The act of relating is analysed as a constitutive feature of human agency. Relating is viewed as the continuous work of connecting and disconnecting in a fluctuating network of existential events
    Categories and things may make it easier for us to grasp reality but they also hide its underlying complexities
    Relationality 2005
    Robert Cooper

     

    Source: Bioscleave/Blue Particle Cloud/Diagram.

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  • Occurrent Cyanotype : Knowledge Objects | Drawing is a philo… | Flickr

    February 22, 2021

    Occurrent Cyanotype : Knowledge Objects

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  • Raveningham : Exploring the aesthetic ecology of things

    July 19, 2020

    Raveningham : Exploring the aesthetic ecology of things

    Collected Notes : Raveningham Sculpture Trail 2020
    Studio Blackboard
    ODYSSEY Aesthetic Intervals/Timbre/Traces
    Immateriality/Temporal/Transitions material and movement/Human agency
    A Species of Spaces
    Construction/Making/Collage
    Forming, slowness and repetition, elements of painting
    Assemblage, sensation, surface, objects and spaces between them gathered/thresholds
    Sheltering/Weathered/ Exploring a fragility of a painting in the landscape
    Robert Mangold, Paintings and Architectural Forms
    Fragments from sketchbooks
    Ephemeral Architecture
    Canvas as spatial verb
    Yellow Ochre, Molochite, Gesso, Canvas, Paper, Textiles,Wood, Lead, Nails
    Canvas as folded construction/shelter/place
    Operative Design, A Catologue of Spatial Verbs
    Georg Simmel, text Frames, Handles, Landscapes and the aesthetic ecology of things

     

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  • Discursive Documents : Enchantment/Somantic Affects/Assemblage

    June 12, 2020

    Discursive Documents : Enchantment/Somantic Affects/Assemblage

    DSC_8759 Discursive Documents : Enchantment/Somantic Affects, Jane Bennett Assemblage : Aesthetic Convergence Cultivation Field/Vibrant Matter Becoming complicit with materials Realist Magic, Objects, Ontology, Causality. Timothy Morton. 2013 Matter and Desire, an erotic ecology. Andreas Weber. 2017 Vibrant Matter, a political ecology of things. Jane Bennett. 2010 Therese Oulton Paintings and new digital prints Lines of Flight. 2006 Being Alive Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description Tim Ingold. 2011 MAKING vibrant gaps/assemblages between the texts/images/objects and everyday things LANDSCAPES OF AFFECTIVE AESTHETIC ATTRACTION MATERIALS THEMSELVES become the TOOLS of PERCEPTION Enchantment from the potential of things. The Fabric of thoughts The invisible within the visible (energy,magic,causality) RELATEDNESS, connected to the Place and Function of Things within a Field. Texts, form their own contexts/reflexivity, breaking down phenomena into meaning, conclusions and critique, they render phenomena and its psychic information redundant. We think we know how we should feel sociologically, yet in doing so we deny ourselves the direct affectiveness of people and objects that can provide different perceptual relationships. EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE=ECOLOGY Lygia Clark : A Space open to time. Cornelia H. Butler The World is a Collage Collage and montage are quintessential techniques in modern and contemporary art and filmmaking. Collage combines pictorial motifs and fragments from disconnected origins into a new synthetic entity which casts new roles and meanings to the parts. It suggests new narratives, dialogues, juxtapositions and temporal durations. Its elements lead double-lives; the collaged ingredients are suspended between their originary essences and the new roles assigned to them by the poetic ensemble. Juhani Pallasmaa Hapticity and Time Notes on a fragile Architecture The Perception of the Environment Essay in Livelihood, dwelling and skill Tim Ingold See Yourself Sensing Redefining Human Perception Madeline Schwartzman STILLNESS IN A MOBILE WORLD Bissell, Fuller

     

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  • Ecological approaches/affordances to aesthetic perception

    June 12, 2020

    Ecological approaches/affordances to aesthetic perception

    When I gather together the animals, arguments, molecules, suggestions, forces, interpretations, sounds, people, and images of this study, one theme emerges. The modern story of disenchantment leaves out important things, and it neglects crucial sources of ethical generosity in doing so. Without modes of enchantment, we might not have the energy and inspiration to enact ecological projects, or to contest ugly and unjust modes of commercialization, or to respond generously to humans and nonhumans that challenge our settled identities. These enchantments are already in and around us.
    Jane Bennett
    Be not inhospitable to strangers
    lest they be angels in disguise
    Jackie Leven, The Dent In The Fender And The Wheel Of Fate
    David Childers, Heart In My Soul

     

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  • Espace-Milieu : Painting as Environment

    April 12, 2020

    Espace-Milieu : Painting as Environment

     Aerial
     Social Mappings. Winchester Cathedral :
     Space for Peace 2011.
    Crafting the mind : Human Inhumation/Containment
    Julian Stair
    Quietus/The Body Politic
    Morality
    Jonathan Sacks
    Co-Existing with the Virus
    Jozef Van Wissem
    Grand Central Confessional
    Nature Boy
    He said that in the end it is beauty
    That is going to save the world, now
    Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

     

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  • Graham Harman on Objects

    April 12, 2020

     

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  • Melancholy Landscapes : The Plague/Vermilion Sands

    April 12, 2020

    Melancholy Landscapes : The Plague/Vermilion Sands

    Film Collages, hybrid processes and temporal states
    Liminality : Literature/Philosophy/Visual Art

    Landscapes : entering/intruding/emerging (holga819)
    Existential Gestures : Looking away from the sea
    Ballard : Vermilion Sands  :  Speculative Fields/Spatial Practices

    Albert Camus : The Plague, 1947. (Penguin Fiction)

    The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a virulent plague.

    Cut off from the rest of the world, living in fear, they each respond in their own way to the grim challenge of the deadly bacillus. Among them is Dr Rieux, a humanitarian and healer, and it is through his eyes that that we witness the devastating course of the epidemic.

    Written in 1947, just after the Nazi occupation of France, Camus’s magnificent novel is also a story of courage and determination against the arbitrariness and seeming absurdity of human existence.

    ‘Camus represents a particularly modern type of temperament, a mystic soul in a Godless universe, thirsty for the absolute, forever rebellious against the essential injustice of the human condition’
    Shusha Guppy, Sunday Times

     

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  • Anthropological Entanglements : Strange Tools/The Rings of Saturn

    April 12, 2020

    Anthropological Entanglements : Strange Tools/The Rings of Saturn

    Walking into Emergent Landscapes : Covehithe Beach
    The OLD WAYS, a JOURNEY ON FOOT, Robert Macfarlane
    “ Walking was a means of personal myth-making, but it also shaped his everyday longings:
    Edward Thomas not only thought on paths and of them, but also with them.”

    “To Thomas, paths connected real places but they also led out-wards to metaphysics, backwards to history and inward to the self. These traverses- between the conceptual, the spectral and the personal-occur often without signage in his writing, and are among its most characteristic events. He imagined himself in topographical terms.”

    DSC_0585 Covehithe : Walking/Thinking/Physical Entanglements in the Landscape

    Natural History : Dried Carnations

    Blueprints : Anthropological Forms
    Botanical traces with leper graves

     

    Source: Anthropological Entanglements : Strange Tools/The Rings of Saturn

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  • Studio Works : Praxis between theory and practice. Outpost 2020.

    April 12, 2020

    Studio Works : Praxis between theory and practice. Outpost 2020.

     

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