The Octopus as an example of the process of 'palpar', its tentacles feeling the way, the body adapting to the environment, slipping through cracks, moving between obstacles. An adaptable body able to correspond to its environment, slipping through boundaries to explore new territories.  An animal which in Catalan, Spanish and English slips through different sounds,... Continue Reading →

Jo Milne - Studio Wall & Protocosmic models - 3D prints 2016-17 Do translational errors form an intrinsic feature of creative research? Terry Winters (painter) “It’s important to reach a place where you don’t know what you’re doing. Painting is a combination of carpentry and catastrophe. There are parts of the painting process that are... Continue Reading →

Research palpar - as a procedural process https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/spanish-english/palpar Verb Tabletransitive verb 1.  (= tocar) to touch ⧫ feel (= tantear) to feel one’s way along (amorosamente) to caress ⧫ fondle (especially Latin America) [sospechoso] to frisk 2.  (= notar) to appreciate ⧫ understand My process as a process of 'thinking through doing', one I would describe as guided... Continue Reading →

  My third and final post in preparation for Wednesday's meeting. Permaculture makes use of a set of 12 principles, "(t)hinking tools, that when used together, allow us to creatively re-design our environment and our behaviour in a world of less energy and resources." Each principle is seen as door "that opens into whole systems... Continue Reading →

Kurt Schwitters, Last Birds and Flowers, 1946, Collage on paper laid down on card, 17.1 x 14.2 cms (6 3/4 x 5 5/8 ins), KS13779 While immersing myself in reading about permaculture and the posthuman, I come across a website article on the artist Xin Cheng - Art as permaculture and localist utopia which opens... Continue Reading →

Dear all, I realise that I have skipped a couple of weeks in my hosting of the blog, caught up in work, the first micro-residency I organised in Saint-Nazaire, thinking about how my activities connect and how to simultaneously give shape to next week's ARE meeting, the abstract presentation for the Transtechnology Research seminar on... Continue Reading →