The Post-Modern Society : Millennium Bridge(Tate Modern to St Paul’s Cathedral), a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Photography : The Reflexive Panopticon

Pinhole Process/Architectural Visualization : Paper for Drawing #1 Photograph (14), a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Preliminary light soundings amongst the books.

NOVELS
McCARTHY-NAPIER
RICE-OATES

Winchester Discovery Centre and Library.

Photograph (8) Possible Worlds 2, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

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 rehabilitate enchantment, showing not only how it is still possible to experience genuine wonder, but how such experience is crucial to motivating ethical behavior. A creative blend of political theory, philosophy, and literary studies, this book is a powerful and innovative contribution to an emerging interdisciplinary conversation about the deep connections between ethics, aesthetics, and politics.

As Bennett describes it, enchantment is a sense of openness to the unusual, the captivating, and the disturbing in everyday life. She guides us through a wide and often surprising range of sources of enchantment, showing that we can still find enchantment in nature, for example, but also in such unexpected places as modern technology, advertising, and even bureaucracy. She then explains how everyday moments of enchantment can be cultivated to build an ethics of generosity, stimulating the emotional energy and honing the perceptual refinement necessary to follow moral codes. Throughout, Bennett draws on thinkers and writers as diverse as Kant, Schiller, Thoreau, Kafka, Marx, Weber, Adorno, and Deleuze. With its range and daring, The Enchantment of Modern Life is a provocative challenge to the centuries-old ”narrative of disenchantment,” one that presents a new ”alter-tale” that discloses our profound attachment to the human and nonhuman world.

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Due to phenomenal demand for tickets during its world premiere season at Sadler’s Wells earlier in 2009, Eonnagata returns for a limited run.

This brand new Sadler’s Wells production brings together three of the world’s foremost creative minds: internationally acclaimed dancer Sylvie Guillem, world-renowned theatre-maker Robert Lepage and award-winning choreographer Russell Maliphant.

Eonnagata tells the story of the Chevalier d’Éon, Charles de Beaumont – diplomat, writer, swordsman and a member of the King’s Secret, a network of spies under the control of Louis XV. De Beaumont was perhaps the first spy to use transvestitism in the furtherance of his duties and until the day he died his true gender was a source of constant speculation, even provoking public bets in the late 18th century.
“The alchemist of modern imagistic theatre, Robert Lepage is one of the most challenging and chimeric directors of our time”
THE GUARDIAN

For this remarkable collaboration, Guillem, Lepage and Maliphant draw not only from their respective backgrounds, but also from the ancient Kabuki technique of Onnegata – in which male actors portray female roles in an extremely stylised fashion.

The elaborate costumes of Louis XV’s court will be evoked by legendary fashion designer Alexander McQueen, complemented by stunning lighting from Michael Hulls.

A Sadler’s Wells Production presented in association with
Ex Machina & Sylvie Guillem

sylvieguillem.com
robertlepage.com
rmcompany.co.uk
alexandermcqueen.com

Russell Moreton.

Artists Book, "Leylines" an art based inquiry., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Artist’s Book: white and coloured pages, card covers with cyanotype of Winchester Cathedral.

A hand bound book comprising of five signatures each with four folios. This book contains a collection of postcards made from contact prints and photograms from Tidbury Ring using the cyanotype process. Other pages contain some cyanotype paintings/abstracts around the theme of dwelling and hut. Silver gelatine images of St Catherine’s Hill are present as are some experimental pinhole photography.