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School of Art Tests - July 2018
SheeWater - Royal Birmingham Conservator November 2018and other tests
1.d Smooth and striated
- The quote – about smooth spaces being those of haecceities and quiddities
- And something about the symbiotic nature of the relationship – between that and striated spaces
- A bit of film from first PGR studio as background?
So I have been stumbling through, looking for ways to make and write – and something that began to make a sort of sense to me was that I needed a way of holding open these spaces of gatherd stuff; so I could work with them / the material and into it – with out it being, squashed, flattened – made static.
Deleuze and Guattari speak in 1000 plateaus (1440) the idea of smooth and striated spaces
Smooth spaces which are spaces of haecceities and quiddities the this ness of stuff and a space of encounter – spaces of affect; and striated spaces, of structure and organisation; they talk about these 2 spaces being mutually interdependent, that one cannot exist without the other - but that they are not static in there mode, a smooth space may become a striated and vice versa – that they are not stable, not permanent.
When I set ‘work’ up in a space, it needs a or a number of structures to hold it, these may be as basic as; a usb stick, a support that holds a projector, a speaker stand but also the structure of the spaces between and around them and how that’s set out and how the ‘stuff’ is materialised, so that the video and the projection or the audio recordings and edited tracks, the images and the sounds sit between, in , through those spaces and move between them
But also at moments of choosing, I might take a form from the place where things were collected, or as in the case of this presentation, take the rough plan I wrote on a plane, and use that ‘plan’, running with it as far as it seems useful and then letting it change and shift
I am interested in structures that are flexible, supportive and permeable – I am interested in the commonplace and every day – I am interested in how things happen when things / people come together – I am interested in difference (and similarity ) over time
- Things made of stuff
I quite like, stuff – from the French stuffos – material stuff ( stuffing derives from the same place) stuff that is all around us all the time
And from the Old English, of Germanic origin; related to German Ding . ‘Thing’- Early senses included ‘meeting’ and ‘matter, concern’. And something with a separate and distinct individual quality,
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thing
Another thing that Massumi talks about is that affect is part of every event and what I began to realise was that maybe what I was looking for were points where I made events/when events occurred – an event maybe being an engagement, an encounter, an involvement with an art work; but also that I was giving the elements involvement / encounter with each other these nonbody objects in the space they were put into; I am very interested in this rather slippy slidy notion of how event might work – and when it might occur / happen – again that maybe when its happened, when we ‘recognise’ it – then maybe it has passed when we can see it in that way – then maybe it is post – that when we are in it we are maybe not aware of it….