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Art → The Social Getting closer by: dumping the studio; dumping standard techniques and materials; shifting from observation to participation, from representation to event, from the rarefied space of autonomous art to the realm of lived experience. Yet this is … Continue reading →

ART PRODUCTIVE RELATIONS VERSION 1.0 PRODUCTION The artist ventures out into the world They observe or imagine They come up with an idea (or are invited to come up with or implement an existing idea) (They may apply for an … Continue reading →

Come rain or shine, come fair weather or foul, whether the wind gusts or nary a leaf stirs in the trees, still you keep walking; whether dawn switches out the streetlamps or dusk turns them on again, whether you are … Continue reading →

And Florent gazed at the vast markets now gradually emerging from the gloom, from the dreamland in which he had beheld them, stretching out their ranges of open palaces. Greenish-grey in hue, they looked more solid now, and even more … Continue reading →

No need to restrict our focus to contemporary art when thinking through art’s relation to the broader world. It is not only through rejecting mimesis, embracing the ephemeral event and modeling exemplary forms of social interaction that art comes to … Continue reading →

In my recent post “Run_1” (8th March 2012), I went on a nine lap run around a local field, taking a photo at the end of each lap. An obvious difficulty with this approach was that it interrupted the running … Continue reading →

Another moon interval sequence. Friday morning. Mown lawn. Much easier.

Close to a year ago, the Belgian-Mexican artist, Francis Alys, created a short video entitled Vocho.1 The video documents the process of Alys driving an old VW beetle into a tree at the botanical gardens in Culiacan, Mexico, and then … Continue reading →

I remain very cautious about positioning my weekend recreation as aesthetic practice. But of course it all depends upon what you do with it. And there is probably nothing wrong with employing artistic strategies to reflect upon my various stupid … Continue reading →

No more moon – just a movement of clouds, a change in light, and a slight, accidental change in focal length. I wonder how long I can keep this practice up. Is there any need for me to do it … Continue reading →

My interest is not in recasting the activity of walking so that so that it can be summoned to the altar of art – as dream; as drift; as estrangement; as metaphor; as participatory critique – but rather in pushing … Continue reading →

I’m putting together the “writing” page and came across this bit of writing from a few years ago: Technology appears to be about functionality – getting jobs done more quickly and efficiently, enabling greater precision and control. The computer does … Continue reading →

Big westerly wind last night – pool full of leaves. (Searching for another image of light.)

So I normally run in the morning, but this time I ran in the early evening. After a few laps a little kid appeared and scuttled a lap around the field. Then a guy with a labrador walked up from … Continue reading →

Started earlier this morning. Ran 16 laps.

Interference represents a characteristic aesthetic strategy – supporting the self-image of art as a force running counter to the dominant signal flow, opposing, disrupting and defamiliarising ordinary signals. But, of course, art also contributes to the overall flow. It is … Continue reading →

Switched at the weekend from daylight savings to ordinary time, so now have to get up an hour earlier to catch the sunrise. Not sure I’ll manage this, so this may be my last run sequence for a while – … Continue reading →

I flagged in the previous post (“Run_8”) that there may be no more of these run posts for the time being. But when I went for my usual run this morning, I couldn’t resist taking before and after photographs, suggesting … Continue reading →

For my purposes, media is not the plural of medium. Media is integrally plural. It represents a multiplicity and an heterogeneity that cannot be resolved to a determinate set. As the etymology suggests, media is concerned with the in-between. It … Continue reading →

In a place not thinking. Grey above the sky, but bright, drifting in the midday mist. For what is this? Possibly a change in weather, but I have no recollection of seriously taking notice of the sky. I did indeed, … Continue reading →

Longer run today, although this is not apparent. Ran up Mt Nebo and along to Mt Kembla village and back. Harry Graham Drive was closed to vehicles, with the road significantly undermined in places by recent rain. Approaching Mt Kembla, … Continue reading →

No running with calf injury. Walked up Mt Nebo instead. Aware that another image concept was needed. Decided to take two images at the top of the walk separated by the slightest of intervals. But this concept quickly fell by … Continue reading →

Another walk up the hill, but without the camera. Discovered that a portion of the dirt road running along the top ridge had been gravel asphalted since I was last up there a week ago. There had been piles of … Continue reading →

For me, art is multiplexed. It is incorporated in my non-art activities – in walking, running, climbing, etc. While it may be possible to position these activities wholly within art – pointing, for instance, to the tradition of the 19th … Continue reading →

Injuries are tedious. Only five laps this morning. Soon there will be only the shortest gap between my before and after image, and then no gap and no images at all.