Responsibility towards the Void

Mike Croft

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Responsibility towards the Void (2022)

Mike Croft

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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.

type	research exposition
keywords	responsibility, drawing, language, theory, void, space, mirror, glass, action camera, Otherness, portal
date	05/07/2021
published	30/09/2022
last modified	30/09/2022
status	published
affiliation	Independent Researcher
copyright	Michael Croft
license	CC BY-NC-ND
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1306562/1306563
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/ruu.1306562
published in	RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
portal issue	18. Responsibility
connected to	i2ADS - Research Institute in Art, Design and Society
connected to	OPDrawing

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name	Note pic 1
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name	Sketch and montage pair lo res
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name	Fig 3 lo res
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name	Site hi res
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name	Drawing 1 2 2 lo res
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name	Trajectory 1 lo res
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name	Trajectory 3 lo res
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name	Trajectory 2 lo res
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name	conceptual sketch lo res
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name	Collage lo res
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name	conceptual sketch void lo res
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name	Void section lo res
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name	Responsibility
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name	Responsibility 2 screenshot 1
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name	Action cam combo lo res
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name	Disparity set 1
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name	Disparity 2
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name	Disparity 3
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name	Smear pair
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name	Blur
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name	Indexing void
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name	Responsibility 2
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name	painting composite
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name	painting straight
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name	Void spaces sketch
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name	Void spaces with green sketch
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name	Zones double page sketch
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name	hand reprint
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name	final 3 variant lo res
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name	Final image details
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name	builder's yard 2
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name	New skcthes lo res
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name	Respinsibility 2 1
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name	Responsibility new edit 4
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name	The Gaze of the Other
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name	Threads of In-between
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name	Sketch 1 lo res
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name	Sketch 1 lo res - copy
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name	X ray
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name	X ray - copy
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name	Responsibility 2
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name	Responsibility 2 - copy
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name	Psychic Portal
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name	Psychic Portal - copy
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name	Determining Void Space
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name	Determining Void Space - copy
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