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Ceramic Asperities, Iterative Dialogues of Material Resistance/Excess Energy.

By Russell Moreton 2026

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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Research-Creation.
Russell Moreton.


How the history of pottery and the philosophy of pottery has informed contemporary practice.


Working Notes: Edmund de Waal.

Independent research for Studio Practice Theory and Analysis.
UCA Farnham, MA Interiors. 2014.

Why does Edmund de Waal make architectural interventions through the arrangement of porcelain pots?
To what extent, if any is this Ceramist interested in the ability of the single pot to…

Edmund de Waal, How the history of pottery and the philosophy of pottery has informed contemporary practice.

Collages of Agencement : A propositional intensity of inquiry.

Scriptorium : Theatre for research

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