Radicant Aesthetics

Wandering & Precarious Forms
( all quotes are from Nicholas Bourriaud)
" precariousness is the sworn enemy of culture"

HOMELESS

"For them there is no such thing as a blank page, a pristine canvas, or material to be worked. Chaos is preexisting, and they operate from the midst of it."

"... clutter is such that the slightest gap in its uninterrupted chain- whether it be a disused urban area, barren expanse, or an impoverished are- immediately becomes photogenic, even fascinating"


Throughout these pages Nicholas continues to meander in and out of doorway, down hallways and into vacant space in the mind of art. This precarious behavior and willingness to drift further "down the rabbit hole" not only allowed me to better understand my art, but how it became my style of art. It allowed me to make connection that I had not seem before and reinforces, if only momentarily, thoughts I have had for quite a while.

The three journey types interested me as well

EXPEDITIONS AND PARADES : " How can one become the explorer of a world now covered by satellites, a world whose every millimeter is now registries and surveyed?"

This brought to mind Maya Lin's Waves. Isn't she in turn creating "un"surveyed land but using land to create her works of art? Or even Andy Goldsworthy, doesn't he do the same thing?

Maya Lin


Andy Goldsworthy


TOPOLOGY:
" A branch of geometry in which nothing is measured and no quantities compared."

This topic insighted my mind to wander along its own path of ideas while reading about it.
"Vast displays of heterogeneous elements- sometimes grouped by series, sometimes by affinities, and sometimes as in Hirschhorn's case , around the proper name of an author- with no perceptible structural organization."

Hirschhorn


I love this idea of finding the beauty in the subtle differences with in the conglomeration. It brings back to mind the Creolization idea.

TEMPORAL BIFURCATIONS:
"...shows how the memory of the people and events of the past haunt our lives an shape the space around us"

This I loved, and all I could think of is the immense amount of pictures that this idea of the "temporal bifurcation" brought to mind.

Tree Roots & Branches



Neuro-Transmitters



Bifurcating Rivers



Lighting



I LOVE IT !!!Radical or Radicant just keep growing!!!