Monday 27 February 2017

Speculative Tectonics : A Poetic of Construction

Tectonics in architecture is defined as "the science or art of construction, both in relation to use and artistic design." It refers not just to the "activity of making the materially requisite construction that answers certain needs, but rather to the activity that raises this construction to an art form." It is concerned with the modeling of material to bring the material into presence: from the physical into the meta-physical world.

http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/78804




Situate them in such a way that useful space for life may form itself amidst them.
Kazimar Malevich 1924

Zaha Hadid on Malevich • BBC CH/4







Thursday 23 February 2017

Joseph Cornell : a fusion of the timeless and the everyday

Collage: Diversions, Contradictions and Anomalies.

Collage's integral methods of discordance and displacement have so insistently reflected turbulent developments in twentieth century art, science and geopolitics that our response might be to categorise the whole genre as iconoclasm or subversive fantasy.

Sally O'Reilly










Sunday 19 February 2017

Pastoral Space: Material, Inquiry, Art 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" something "in the vicinity" or "in the mileau" to happen ( Gell 1998)"

"These latter artefacts are described with the term "index", to remove the appellation "art" and to imply that they are indexes of agency."

Some Stimulating Solutions, Andrew Cochrane.
















Transformative Drawing Processes
Sun Printed Cyanotype
The sun has gone mad and stripped the earth of its ionosphere. For decades blasting radiation has poured upon earth, melting the polar caps and turning permafrost into streams, rivers, oceans. Huge deltas have been built, lakes formed, seas have risen.

The Drowned World, JG Ballard.


Friday 17 February 2017

Monday 13 February 2017

Working Spaces : Force Fields, sign and trace




Contents List from a folder in the Theatre of Research

 Unlike a Library the Theatre of Research is a working space that creates and crafts both theoretical and practical objects, things and documentation. Its reason for being is to explore the praxis for creative narratives between the Arts and The Humanities.


Chora Body and Building
Space as Membrane

Chora (Exhibition) 1999

Lessons of a dream. Karsten Harries

Concrete Blonde: Joanna Merwood
A probe into the negative spaces where mysteries are created.

Surrealist Paris : Dagmar Motycka Watson
The non-perspectival space of the lived city

Body and Building : George Dodds
Essays on the changing relation of body and architecture.

Sphere and Cross : Karsten Harries
Vitruvian refections on the Pantheon Type

Body and Building : Marcia f. Feuerstein
Inside the Bauhaus’s Darker Side

Desiring Landscapes/Landscapes of Desire. George Dodds

A Tradition of Architectural Figures: Marco Frascari

Interwining Metamorphoses : Germano Celant
On the work of Guiseppe Penone

Space as a Membrane : Siegried Ebeling















Sensorium : Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art.

https://citythroughthebody.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/sensorium.pdf





Saturday 11 February 2017

"into a universe of creative enchantments" Guattari



 The french thinker Felix Guattari, in a powerful historical essay, has asked some fundamental questions about the direction in which the century and its achievements in technology are taking us; he calls for a new vitality in the relations between individuals and the language of the culture they inhabit:'Unconscious figures of power and knowledge are not universals. They are tied to reference myths profoundly anchored in the psyche, but they can still swing around toward liberatory paths/voices.' He too sketches the possibility of a utopia, dreaming of 'transforming this planet - a living hell for over three quarters of its population - into a universe of creative enchantments'.

Marina Warner, From the Beast to the Blonde (p418)