‘Thus wrote the first philosopher of place, Archytas of Tarentum: To be at all is to be in (some) place.
Another Land, Nicky Coutts 2006, pp.22
Citational Fragments
The concept of space
Like the spider with its web, so every subject weaves relationships between itself and particular properties of objects; the many strands are then woven together and finally form the basis of the subjects very existence.
Jakob von Uexkull, Existence, Space, Architecture by Christian Norberg-Shulz:pp9
Identity Practices > Discursive spaces
DS Untitled 2011
‘Writing is silent. Barren white spaces hold the cryptic black marks of text. Margins impose an imaginary wholeness, even as they establish a border of difference. They contain the marks and signal their separateness from other texts. I know something about margins and the centres they create. I know that the borders of any frame are permeable; other ideas, other texts come in to flood any ideas of originality or sense of ownership. Centres are relative, malleable and polydimensional. Margins are continually transforming, reforming and deforming their parameters. The ideas I present are never completely mine. They are compiled of a chorus of voices, a story told through other texts shaped into a speech/text through a tongue that has been twisted to an easy conformity. In citation there always exists the error of deficit. Continue reading
Architect: Adolf Loos
Adolf Loos, House for Josephine Baker 1928
‘The best form always already exists and no one should be afraid of making use of it, even if its elements derive from someone else’s work. We have enough original genius. Let’s repeat ourselves ad infinitum.’ Adolf Loos
Text reproduced from http://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-landscape-possible-horizon-place-of.html, Image reproduced from http://myranchburger.blogspot.com/2009/07/adolf-loos-and-his-house-for-josephine.html
Poeticizing and Thinking
…into the space of renunciation…
‘for language as the origin of the work of art proved to be an impossible origin, since its repetition undermined any possibility of origination outside its iteration […] a substantive shift away from the discussions of origins into one of essence pp171 […] nothing, but relation: that which gives being, but that iself is not. pp.179
‘The word gives being.’, ‘to the word gives:Being’. Nothing has been added but the simple mark of a pause or break, a ceasura, but in doing so the relation of the word to being has been suspended and thus its wording has appeared. It inscribes the space of being but withdraws from it, because it is nothing more than its spacing, its mark of lack and rupture by which it becomes a space, a neighbourhood in which relations can take place, thus Poeticizing and thinking are pp184 Continue reading
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