...BATHOS...

Design a model for measurements from castings of limbs, faces and corporeal or bodily fluids or spittle.

To some degree present the thing - of life as an interesting flaw with its abject beauty as that which functions as an economic imperative- in itself. Neither remnants of obsolete pasts - like Stelarc - nor dead-end narratives but monumental beauty. Not intelligent design but a retarded sublime beauty. A retarded beautiful and sublime demiurge clearing spaces for the revelations of hidden, mysterious and enigmatic truths. Time is immutable. And yet we still become beings subjected to death and decay.

So, desire is all with sublimations of eros. Sublimated erotic myth.

Fetishised life, aestheticised. Pathos proposing a fall from the sublime to the ridiculous.

...BATHOS...

...CES...CDP...

Structure itself is encountered in becoming...it forms and dissolves continually; it is life arrived at a certain measure of consolidation" (Durkheim)
I'm interested in space: structures, strictures, potentialities, propositions

To build something is to unbuild everything else in that space/time. It proposes an alternative which resonates in that space (through memory) after the object has gone, and may inform future potentialities of that space.

"To some degree, every design is a blueprint for human behaviour and social structure, as well as a schematic of the thing itself"

If architects keep designing dumb ugly buildings will it make the population dumber?



Heidegger: "the past persists through its continued effects on the present, through the foreclosure of unrealised possibilities and through the opening of new grounds of possibility".

The city is also littered with the remnants of obsolete pasts, narratives of existence incapable of continuity. Monuments to the past. Dead-end narratives. Yet built to survive, they continue to stand whilst buildings from this decade visibly crumble.
We exist within an ever dwindling present. Our buildings contain no concept of the future, inbuilt self destruct mechanisms.

Freidmann "In the peculiar form of dystopias utopian thinking may alert us to certain tendencies in the present, which, if allowed to continue unchecked and carried to a logical extreme, would result in a world we would find abhorrent"




caleb thought we should call it "Bathos", I like the word "propositional" What about "Bathos - Are you propositionaling me?"
What's with the blogging cone of silence?

7TH GALLERY EXHIBITION

Finally Caleb wrangles us all together at Carrie's house.

Caleb is obsessed with everything theatrical. Not that he condones it. Craig concurs. Does the aestheticisation of life render art impotent?

'HYPER-THINGS'.

Caleb is resolved to resolution. He desires that art sign off on everything.

RUSSIAN CONSTRUCTIVISM.



http://www.ubu.com/aspen/aspen5and6/audio5A.html

KANT.

Sounds. Noise. Wind blows. Muffled explosions. Bombardments. A POWER...FULL...SYMPHONY...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smreRx51cus&feature=related

An alchemical workshop.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCX6KvfIovU&feature=related

Deconstruct. Appropriate. Divest.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyJAytr1ebc



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GPuOrroqEs

SURREAL PLINTHS.

NO ANIMALS.

NOR FAUX-ART.

TO SCALE MODELS.

MEASUREMENTS MARKED.

CONTEMPLATIVE SELFS REFLECTION.