Research into using materials to assist in the investigation of research practice, cultivating different perspectives and allowing the research to guide the researcher.
Making: Anthropology, Archeology, Art and Architecture - Tim Ingold (2013)
reference: Chapter 2 ‘The Materials of Life’ in Tim Ingold, Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture (London: Routledge, 2013), pp. 17-31.
- Argument of the chapter – ‘To switch our perspective from the endless shuttling back and forth from image to object and from object to image.’ Arguing to reframe research to inform multi-practice investigation.
- Material Culture – Julian Thomas, 2007 – ‘(Material culture) represents at once ideas that have been made material, and natural substance that has been rendered cultural.’ – A dual meaning of cultural ideas given form and natural substances being given cultural importance.
- Hylomorphism and inclusive definitions – Making as a hylomorphism ( from Greek hyle ‘matter’ and morphe ‘form’) of Research. Art as a hylomorphism exists as a definition that does not exclude sonic works.
- Metallurgy – Deleuze and Guattari – Metallurgy as ‘…highlighting a particular insufficiency in the hylomorphic model’- This being that ‘it can only conceive of technical operations as sequences of discrete steps.’ Metallurgy as being a morphogenic approach where the thresholds between ‘steps’ inform and develop the commencement of the next: ie. Material variation created in forging iron by returning it to the fire between the rigid steps. ‘Even iron flows, and the smith has to follow it.’
- The Two sides of materiality – On one side is the raw physicality of its material character and on the other side is ‘…the socially and historically situated agency of human beings who, in appropriating this physicality for their purposes, are alleged to project upon it.... the physical forms of artefacts.’ – Situationism of specific materials, can be applied to sound medium materiality in relation to both its raw physicality of its material character and also its relevance as an artefact of cultural and social importance.
- Return to alchemy – Insinuating that a scientific understanding of material and a ‘alchemical’ understanding is opposed in the sense that scientific knowledge about something excludes the knowledge of how that artefact interacts with the real world. As if the scientist that knows the chemical molecular structure of salt, somehow forgets its application in cooking.
Making and Knowing workshop with Elaine Igoe
- Workshop about using physical research to develop literacy with materials and encouraging alternative perspectives.
- Working Collaboratively with course mate Katie, developing an elaborate puppet with a meandering, morphogenic approach & unfamiliar materials.
Puppets are often associated with fear. It would be interesting to understand why that is and how puppets could provide insight into the nature of haunting.
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