nascent bodies

Sketch Studies for a Drawing....vestigial anatomies/vicarious prosthesis

sketch studies for a chronogram-esque drawing, attempting to coalesce futurist ideas of portraying the body in space/time, notions of visceral surfaces and the contrast  of anatomical and cartesian geometries. It is also hoped that the drawing will allude to ideas of 'vicarious prosthesis' that generate around limbs, appendages -potentially evoking Mike Webb's Suitaloon, or other 'mobile/personal architectures'.

vicarious skins and vestigial bodies........models

'inlucent transubstance of flesh' (cruz)

hyper-dermis........studies; experiments; sketches

Diaphanous Skins and blurs mk II sketches

Etymology of an Idea.....

An etymological breakdown of the primary terms/titles/canticles used thus far, to clarify one's own agenda, suggest apparent trajectories or offer tangential potentials.....

Vestigial Anatomies & Vicarious Prosthesis

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Diaphanous Skins and blurs

skin: The membranous tissue forming the external covering or integument of an animal and consisting in vertebrates of the epidermis and dermis.

epidermis: Anatomy. the outer, nonvascular, nonsensitive layer of the skin, covering the true skin or corium from Latin meaning surface skin and Greek epidermís 'upper skin', Greek dérma meaning skin.


'....one has to understand 'flesh' as an extended meaning of skin and, accordingly, skin not as surface or membrane , but rather like ' a place of minglings', as the English theorist Steve Connor has put it. This implies a sense of three-dimensionality that is manifested through the materiality of skin in which embedded matter, along with a variety of wrinkles, bulges and orifices mark their presence......' (Marcos Cruz, Synthetic Neoplasms, AD Nov/Dec 08)


hypodermis_hyperdermis_cyberdermis



hands. iterations.....moving through space/time

#1

#2

(some) maps for these territories........

somatological slipstreams....photographs mk II

'Movement vision is sight turned proprioceptive, the eyes reabsorbed into the flesh through a black hole in the geometry of empirical space and a gash in bodily form. Vision is a mixed mode of perception registering both form and movement. For it to gain entry into the quasi-corporeal, the realm of pure relationality, it must throw aside form in favour of unmediated participation in the flesh.'

Brian Massumi

Somatological: pertaining to somatology

_ the branch of anthropology that deals with human physical characteristics.

Slipstreams:

_the airstream generating reduced air pressure and forward suction directly behind a rapidly moving vehicle

Slippage:
_The act or an instance of slipping, especially movement away from an original or secure place.
_The amount or extent of slipping.
_A decline in level, performance, or achievement.
_Loss of motion or power because of slipping

somatological slipstreams....photographs

'the action of energy in the midst of matter......an extreme vision of reality, where everything is merely a transition of energy' Giovanni Lisla
strategy: transcribe the human form in space/time.
tactic: 40 red light emitting diodes affixed at equidistance along one side of the body.

photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31370427@N07/

somatological slipstreams....paintings

'the work of art is valuable in so far as it is vibrated by the reflexes of the future' Andre Breton

somatological slipstream I, gouache & ink

somatological slipstream II, gouache

refer to http://simonwinters02.blogspot.com/2009/11/technical-manifesto-of-futurist.html#more

"a fluvial futurism"

The fixed biological body is remapped as a dynamic force field of speeds and intensities, ‘traversed by a powerful, nonorganic vitality’ which includes the mind. (Deleuze & Guattari)

The body-without-organs imagined by Deleuze is ‘affective, intensive, anarchist’ in nature. Amoeba-like, it is open to surrounding matter, which it incorporates.

Vestigial Bodies......annotated pt 2

Vestigial Bodies......annotated

vestigial bodies I, photograph, gouache & ink

vestigial bodies II, photograph, gouache & ink

vestigial anatomies......sketch study

A project within a project

sideways in reverse....an adjunct

The 'artefact' I chose for this project was an assembled suit of samurai armour from the British Museum.
Late 16th Century (cuirass and sleeves), 17th Century (helmet), 18-19th Century (remainder)

from http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/asia/s/set_of_armour.aspx

A Fork in the River

Diversionary tactics.

An effort to expand our horizons and pallette, and remove ourselves from our supposed 'comfort zones'.

brief: IMAGE, AUTHENTICITY AND PERFORMANCE

AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (PROJECT WITHIN A PROJECT)

a saying attributed to polymath, 20th century socialite, latter day alchemist Aleister Crowley and a mantra favoured by the occultists whereby the micro and macro cosmos are seen as the same during the alchemical transformation: " that which is above is the same as that which is below"

Bearing this in mind, you are asked to go to the national gallery/ british museum et al, choose a painting, sculpture, objet d'arte etc and add it as if defining a performative artefact of your very own.
You are to take the paiting/artwork you find but you are not to reproduce it in presenting your artefact. You can add to, remove and replace- you are to create an intervention that describes interests carried through your work so so far as well as 'performance, identity and image'.

vestigial anatomies.....sketches

vestigial anatomies

ghosts mk III

nascent animations mk III

nascent animation mk II

nascent animation

air st : nocturnus 'of the night'

ghosts mk II........nascent anatomies

excavation

Chthonic (from Greek χθόνιος — chthonios, "in, under, or beneath the earth", from χθών — chthōn "earth"[1]; pertaining to the Earth; earthy; subterranean) designates, or pertains to, deities or spirits of the underworld, especially in relation to Greek religion.


Greek khthon is one of several words for "earth"; it typically refers to the interior of the soil, rather than the living surface of the land (as Gaia or Ge does) or the land as territory (as khora (χώρα) does). It evokes at once abundance and the grave.

ghosts of air street

corporeality dissolved......dissolution and distortions

'No Maps for These Territories' (Gibson)

can⋅ti⋅cle 
[kan-ti-kuhl]
–noun
1.
one of the nonmetrical hymns or chants, chiefly from the Bible, used in church services.
2.
a song, poem, or hymn esp. of praise.


nine canticles will set the tone for my upcoming investigations. Intentionally ambiguous and tenebrous, they serve merely as beacons in as yet uncharted territories.

_Vagrant Anatomies

_Vestigial Bodies

_Vicarious Prosthesis

_The Visceral and The Visible

_The Invisible and the Indeterminable

_Res Extensa

_Liminal Embodiment

_Techno-Excressence

_Networked Technologies of Nascent Theatres

Lavender Hill

Air Street mk 2

development of ecological model

Panoramics 01- Lavender Hill

A wet sunday morning in Air Street

Air Street

Air Street I, photograph & pencil

Air Street II, photograph & pencil

Air Street III, photograph & pencil

offshoot.....a blog of links

This blog will be a collection of links, images, anecdotes, musings etc, that may or may not be related to my current body of work but are interesting none the less.

http://simonwinters02.blogspot.com

Lavender hill

I want to walk eternity,In through the land of make believe. And watch the clouds roll over me, And let the sun shine down on me. The only place that I wanna be, Lavender Hill for me.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MnykaXMNlk&feature=PlayList&p=A7BFB9F69A1092C7&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=52

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