Exposition

Responsibility towards the Void (2022)

Mike Croft

About this exposition

The question of responsibility is explored through drawing, specifically relating to a so-termed void space that ranges over a builder's yard and its immediate environment. The research is formatted as dated journal entries to show its chronological development, with the proviso that later stages may eclipse earlier stages, depending on their relevance. This looping, as it were, mimics the fact that the void space is best defined by the occasional circling of swifts, an observation that becomes a metaphor for how to try to articulate the space pictorially. Responsibility is referenced through theories of each of Levinas, Lacan and Foucault in relation to the Other, the latter of which is taken as the theoretical equivalent of void, but no less concerning responsibility. The author has drawn the site in such terms as locate the void in both the space that the site defines and a gap in the drawing process. This artistic effort is analogous demonstration of responsibility to that which is suggested by the theory. Responsibility is considered from the perspective of the personal and individual, automatically present in artistic commitment, in this case finding some explanation in theoretical thinking of the abstract notion of Other. The formatting of the process of attending to this theme and motif as research leads to a situation where drawing, as such, is but the predominantly visual tool alongside art writing, academic research, and graphic layout that provides live links to video clips and two explanatory texts.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsresponsibility, drawing, language, theory, void, space, mirror, glass, action camera, Otherness, portal
date05/07/2021
published30/09/2022
last modified30/09/2022
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationIndependent Researcher
copyrightMichael Croft
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1306562/1306563
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/ruu.1306562
published inRUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
portal issue18. Responsibility
connected toi2ADS - Research Institute in Art, Design and Society
connected toOPDrawing


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