Ceramic Asperities, Iterative Dialogues of Material Resistance/Excess Energy.
Transductions~Rememberances~Multiples with Serial Variations on Clay.
Existent Matter(s) : Testimony~Material~Making
Forces in Suspension : Between Human Intension and Material Behaviour.
Clay has the capacity to make-felt, the felt-force of something otherwise imperceptible.
Ceramic Remembrances : Exploring the sociology of making and the touching tactility of minor gestures in artworks.
Speculative Learning Through The Processual : Gathering Thoughts in the Making.
An Artful Anarchive : Making as a gathering of force into forms holding multiple minor gestures.
Anarchive Spatial Structures.
An anarchive is a creative process and philosophy that resists traditional, static archiving. Instead of just storing past traces, it acts as a "feed-forward mechanism" that uses archival material to continuously spark new art, sensations, and becoming.
Key Concepts
Process over Product: Traditional archives preserve inert documents. The anarchive treats these traces as carriers of potential, constantly mutating into new creative iterations.
Reactivation: Traces from the past are used as springboards to inspire new thought and ongoing variation, rather than settling on historical truth.
Excess Energy: The anarchive is considered the "surplus value" of the archive—it lives in the movements going into and coming out of storage.
Clay~Ceramic : On the transduction of material force into forms of time.
Ceramic Remembrances : Exploring the sociology of making and the touching tactility of minor gestures in artworks.
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