#relationscapes

Research Outpost Norwich #2 by Russell Moreton Via Flickr: RELATIONSCAPES Movement, Art, Philosophy Erin Manning Prelude : What moves as a body returns as a movement of thought Something in the world forces us to think. This something is not an object of recognition, but a fundamental encounter. Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF LANDSCAPE Christoper Tilley, Kate Cameron-Daum Materiality From our perspective in this book representations of landscape, textual or pictorial, are of secondary significance and we should treat them as such; they are selective and partial, and often highly ideological, ways of seeing and knowing. It forms a material medium in which we dwell and move and think. Redirecting the study of landscape from representation to the materially grounded messiness of everyday life and the minutiae of material practices that constitute it. Landscapes are contested, untidy and messy, tensioned, always in the making. Our landscapes of modernity are frequently on the move and peopled by diasporas and migrants of identity, people making homes in new places. Field Observations Spatial relations within the landscape are complex. The manner in which persons and their bodies cannot be understood apart from the landscapes of which they are a part, reciprocally involved in forms of movement, action, awareness and social memory. Embodied Identities Art in and from the landscape Fragile Environments : Nature and Culture On Ways of Walking and Making Art A personal reflection M Collier Making art is a practical application of phenomenology Engaging with an embodied experience of space and depth (what Merleau-Ponty called the 'flesh of the world'). WATERLOG Journeys Around An Exhibition Landscape and Memory AFTER SEBALD Essays and Illuminations Edited by Jon Cook