citational fragments

The Contingent Object

startind

Richard Serra. Joe: Torqued Spiral, 2000. Weatherproof steel. 13 ½ x 45 x 36 ½ feet. Plate thickness: 2 inches. Collection of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis. Photo by Dirk Reinartz. © 2008 Richard Serra/Artists Rights Society, New York.

Abstract forms and spatial experience

The function of copying or transcription

The play between abstraction and representation,

Equivalents – Fall

Artifacts and relics.

The cast and the copy; a function of authorship and reproduction.

Participation as a function of the original

Participation as an act of design or arrangement

Participation as a challenge to authority,

Participation as a vehicle for heterogeneity

Avalanche

Or performance

Of the fragmented mark

Of the symbolic equivalent

Of play between absence and presence

Performing the failure of the mark or trace of bodily action

The Shadow [Detective]

Fingerprint

The Shadow [Detective] collecting commodities and subjects as a basis for subsequent practices.

Slumber

Reproduction as a basis for quotation and reference

Reproduction as mediation and transformation of

Perpetual Photos and Plaster Surrogates

Originals decay or deteriorate.

Mortar and Pestle

Diagrams construct an ephemeral site in place of the object

Diagrams as a form of delay

Diagrams as a form of intent:  

Viewing Matters, Face to Face in the Public Toilets

‘May I Help You?’

‘Yes, I would like a bag of donuts and 3 urinals please.’

 ‘Not Here’

Avalanche

Lick, Lather and Gnaw at impermanence as the index

Lick, Lather and Gnaw at the contingent object

Lick, Lather and Gnaw at the experience

Lick Lather and Gnaw at the material evidence of authenticity

Gnaw at organic materials

Gnaw at chocolate, lard and soap

And yet still there looms a galvanized iron wall and a straight single tube where there dances the

Preserved Head of a Bearded Woman decorated with a String of Puppies

Puppies which need a lot of care and attention

What is this Strange Fruit [for David]?

Painted Bronze, Fountain Meltdown

The scrap metal process separates idea from material truth: an Island within an Island

No amount of Litanies can stop this Statement of Esthetic Withdrawal

The artist’s hand now becomes an object of desire along with Neon Templates of the Left Half of My Body Taken at Ten-Inch Intervals.

Drowned Monuments and Shared Fate; a function of external evidence like Every Building on the Sunset Strip

Short Circuit – Casting, Splashing, Torqued Ellipses

a simple ‘verb list’

Remade readymades,

Readymade readymades

Eureka!

Image reproduced from https://imagejournal.org/article/gravity-and-grace/ (accessed 25/11/22)

Placeways Glossary

startind

Cacotope: A bad place.

Chorophilia: Love of place.

Energy: The capacity to cause changes in interest, feeling or action

Expressive Intelligibility: Making sense through a whole experience of perceptions, ideas, images, dramatic encounters and stories; knowledge with its centre in the life of feeling.

Expressive space: A specific milieu laden with emotional and symbolic features of experience: a place that contains feelings and meanings, which may be expressed through objects, structures, forms, surfaces, images, stories, myths, memories and dreams.

Pathetecture: The process of building feelings and meanings by the arrangement of material objects, especially through construction, dilapidation, and excavation.

Periegete: A guide to a place.

Place: A location of experience; the container of shapes, power, feelings, and meanings.

Ruins: Physical remains shaping a location of experience that is past but not completed.

Structure of mutual immanence: The system of effective presences dwelling together in a place.

Theoria: An ancient way of grasping experience that involves all the senses and feelings.

Therapeia: Close attendance.

Theraputae: People who give close attendance.

Topistics: A holistic mode of enquiry designed to make the identity, character, and experience of a place intelligible.

Topoclasm: Destruction of a place.

Topomorphic revolution: A fundamental change in a mode of dwelling together in a place.

Topotherapy: The responsive dwelling, close attendance, cultivation and care of a place.

Wilderness: A location of unsettled experience.

Walter, E,V. (1998) Placeways: A Theory of the Human Environment, USA: UNC Press Books. p.215               

Holism, content and self

startind

chiasmus

“[T]here must be, then, corresponding to the open unity of the world, an open and indefinite unity of subjectivity. Like the world’s unity, that of the I is invoked rather than experienced each time I perform an act of perception, each time I reach a self-evident truth, and the universal I is the background against which these effulgent forms stand out: it is through one present thought that I achieve the unity of all my thoughts…The primary truth is indeed ‘I think’, but only provided that we understand thereby ‘I belong to myself’ while belonging to the world.”

Text reproduced from Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception, quoted in Place and Experience, A Philosophical Topography, J Malpas, Cambridge University Press, 1999:pp.72. Image reproduced from http://merleau.jp/whatsE.html

Place Making > Placing Self

startind

Heidegger’s Hutte, Todtnauberg, Black Forest, Germany

“…place is that open, cleared yet unbounded region in which we find ourselves gathered together with other persons and things, and which we are opened to the world and the world to us. It is out of this place that space and time both emerge, and yet the place at issue here also has a dynamic character of its own – it is not merely the static appearance of a viewed locale or landscape, but it is rather a unifying, gathering, regioning – place is, in this sense, always a “taking place, a “happening” of place.”

Malpas, Jeff, Heidegger’s Topology, Being, Place, World, Massachussets Institute of Technology, 2008, Chapter 5 Place and Event pp.221. Image reproduced from http://faslanyc.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/landscape-delicatessen.html

“In which the patagrapher regains his rights”

startind

DS_Untitled_2011

© Denise Startin

” In the heart of the night shines the anti-glimmer – the powerful sea of all waves – of all life the sea is strong – the shadow gleams the night eats fear – the well of truth has no way out – the sea gleams with no glimmer – under the night upon the night oh clang – oh clang declang degong and boom – and clamour oh word

here we are total

inscribed in the fearless heart of the night of the flesh – and in the veins and in the nerves – of all the beasts our mothers our sisters – in the forests of our thoughts – inscribed but in living fire – eternal instantaneous – fire you tell yourself – fire you tell me – all is said but eternally

speak!”

René Daumal, Pataphysical Essays, Trans. Thomas Vosteen (Cambridge, Massachusetts, Wakefield Press, 2012), p.58-59