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Jorge Pardo: Project – Design Process as outcome
March 31, 2010 by admin, under artworks, books, formal / structural / grids.
Jorge Pardo. Project, 2000. Volkswagen Full Scale Model, 1995.
Photo: Cathy Carver.
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Re-distribution of the Sensible
March 30, 2010 by admin, under books, thoughts.
The following bit of text is from Re-distribution of the Sensible catalogue, text by Warren Neidich:
“The logics of perception and experience are no longer materialistically defined only by contours of geometric and linear time and space arranged hierarchically in a rigid lattice but rather follow curved, non-linear Rheimannian paradigms that are expressed in complicated, non-hierarchical, rhizomatic shifting patterns. Consider for a moment the way commodities are now linked together as branded networks that intensify their desire quotient or how people communicate on chat rooms or move in and out of blog sites. Sovereignty, utilizing these methods and those of the global market place with the help of the continuing scientific research on perception and cognition, has conspired in creating powerful complex networks of attention which allow for the manufacture of explicit “connectiveness” that today defines the distribution of the sensible. Phatic Stimuli, as Paul Virilio refers to them, have evolved into highly attention grabbing conglomerates of stimuli that act as multiplicities and operate beyond the sensorium reaching into the folded gyri and sulci of the brain itself. These networks form a hegemonic cultural syntax which is inscribed en mass on the society as a whole producing new forms of subjectivity and in the case of a world tuned into global media, a bounded multitude. When these networks are internalized and become part of the automatic operation of the body’s or mind’s habitual relationships they form a Society of Control rather then the Disciplinary Society. Self-Censorship is a perfect example of the Society of Control and how insidiously this process becomes self-evident. These images together produce the “Institutional Understanding”. This “institutional understanding” is the framework through which most of us operate in the real world of material things.
But artists also create their own distribution of the sensible. They use their own historical referents, materials, processes, apparati, spaces, performances, to create complex assemblages that together compete with institutional arrangements for the attention of the brain and mind. [...]
They inhabit the same spaces and temporalities as the institutional arrangements that characterize the institutional understanding. Their presence however acts to bend and contort it, in the end, altering its static and rigid arrangements in significant ways. Works like installation art, performative sculpture and urban geographies act to redistribute the facts of this distribution of the sensible while conceptually-based works, relational aesthetics and the institutional critique operate on more metaphysical levels superimposing meaning, contexts and critiques upon it in order to change the way those distributions are read and understood and processed for instance as memories.” The Re-destribution of the Sensible – Warren Neidich.
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Research Diagram
March 23, 2010 by admin, under Uncategorized, books, thoughts.
Stated using gliffy to create diagrams for organizing thoughts and the content for my current writtings. Here is a link to research diagram
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Children's Books
January 3, 2009 by ric, under artworks, books, inter-bodies / half-objects, thoughts.
There seems to be children’s books covering all sorts of subjects quite well, except for children living with divorced parents and in two separate houses. Very interesting yet hard subject to communicate to a child but nevertheless fundamental.
This social condition relates to the Lacuna’s stage of ‘Inverted Family Trees’.