Connecting with the ineffable in times of flattening
- Dr. Alessia Lupo Cecchet, La Montagna Addolorata [The Sorrowful Mountain]
- Alex Beth Schapiro, The Third That Remains: Rituals for Patients I Never Met
- Alexandre Sorokin, Noë / Red Cloud: An Apophatic Artistic Research Project
- Dr. Ally Zlatar, Worshipping The Porcelain Throne; Apophatic Autoethnography and Eating Disorders
- Asana Hues, The Significance of Insignificance
- Béatrice Machet, Paul Auster-apophatically-
- Bob Kalivac Carroll, Disruption and Apophasis: Ineffability and the Object Conundrum in Nonobjective Abstract Visual Art
- Caitlin Gilson and Carol Scott, A Conversation on Color: Poetry and Painting as Image, Glimpse, Moment
- Caitlin Mary Margarett Sørensdatter, The Fruits (Solastalgia in Skønvirke)
- Chandni Dhanesh Jeswani, What the City Refuses: Apophatic Cosmology and Structural Illegibility in Varanasi
- The Coven Collective: Chaelim Lim, Dima Mabsout, M. Maybee Salters, Nicole Sarmiento, and Tyler Rai, [Picking up shells amid a tsunami] 쓰나미가 밀려오는데, 조개나 줍고 있네.
- Daniel Martin and Dr. Marty Tomszak, Souls Moved by Intelligent Energies: Practice-Led Iconic Research and the Apophatic Theology of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
- Denise Gawley DMH MSN RN, Standing in the After
- Denise Gieseke, In the Movement of Dissolution
- Diana Rojas, Query v2; Subject to the Immaterial; Surveying the Messenger 1 & 2
- ELAWIATR, What Is Art – Apophatic Language in Fracture
- Eliza Swann, The eyeless mind
- Pr. émérite Emmanuel Gabellieri, L’expression et l’inexprimé
- Dr. Evgenii Matveev, Apophatic representation of Russia in Russian poetry
- Faizaan Ahab, Move
- Frank Smith, Les Films non exécutables
- Gabriel Figueroa, Chiesa
- Giulia Taurino, Ceci N’est Pas Une Archive: Negative Metadata and the Apophasis of Digital Records
- Dr. Gitanjaly Chhabra and Dr. Kathleen (Kaye) Hare, What Remains Unsaid: Apophatic Erasure in Academic Life and Luminous Edge of Absence
- Hamid Roslan, The Encounter
- iris yuting zeng, The Knot Before Language
- Ishita Dharap, Lossyness: Negotiations with what Routinely Escapes
- Jennifer Toriello, D. Litt., Held by What We Hold: Apophatic Weight and Embodied Practice in The Magic Hour
- Kaleb Ostraff, Touchpoints for the Ineffable
- Karin de Weille, Undone (spoken words)
- Keiran Dugan, Against Immediacy: Fictional Mediation and Apophatic Representation
- KPrevallet, Nothing Erased But Much Submerged
- Dr. Kythe Letitia Heller, S
- Dr. Laura McCullough, Compassionate Curiosity, Apophatic Storytelling, & the Healing Imagination: The Coordinates of Being
- Leslie N. Polk, peace, Colleague #2
- Dr. Lily Filson, The God in the Grotto: Renaissance Automata, Theurgy, and Apophatic Practice
- Marco Nieli, EKPHRASIS I, 121 ecphrastic carmina); EKPHRASIS II, 128 ecphrastic carmina in the 4 styles, with some haiku
- Martin Lenclos, Perception Is the First Creative Act: Toward an Apophatic Reading of Design for Nothing
- Martin Robb, Embracing the unknown: researching the hidden life and enigmatic art of Theodor Kern
- Mayson Taylor, 16 SHOWINGS Toward a Feminist Apophatic Art Practice
- Merel Thijs, On the colours of being: onto-teleological considerations on the artistic-creative process; With closed eyes open: portraits of the mind unwinding
- Mike Petrakis, Arteryficial Intelligence
- Nadine M. Kalin, What Is Withheld Does Not Lack: Waystop Pedagogy as Earth Scores in the Critical Zone
- Natalia Espinel and samantha shoppell, Un/wrapping Vulnerability
- Noelle Derksen, Apophasis and Trans Abstraction
- Radmila Djurica, Body in the Glitch
- Sarah Tarkany, Reticulated Silences
- Smita Sen, High Voltage: On The Heart, Defibrillation, and Competing Philosophies of Medicine
- Sophie Auger, third-image-archive.net
- Stephanie Smit (Giek), Soul Constellation Map — An Interactive Archive of Recurring Identities Across Time
- V.E. Haddad, the feeling when; Dream Commons
- Wayne Adams, Cloud of Unknowing
- William Franke, Desert and Sea: Apophatic Land/Sea Scapes
- Merel Visse
- William Franke
- Ryan Woodring
- Béatrice Machet
- Sarah Travis
- Enaiê Azambuja
- Sarah Tarkany
- Peter Kline
- Kythe Heller
- Cailtin Gilson
- Chelle Stearns
Schedule and Location
It is not about seeing but living. Landscape addresses not the seeing or the knowing of what is seen but the experiencing and living of sceneries.
– François Jullien, cited in Visse 2024
The shape of it
Two days, moving through the six movements of aesthetic–apophatic inquiry. Day One goes from being perplexed to choosing a noncept to the first sustained making. Day Two goes into the ecology of practices, then into indirect dwelling, then into qualities, and ends where the work is handed outward — to the Dream Incubator Group, to the Research Catalogue, to whatever continues.
Woven through both days is the arc the Mutable Data workshop established: melting, opening, departing, detouring, provoking, thresholding, reflecting, continuing.
What the two days are made of
- Roughly six hours of actual making, in blocks of forty-five to seventy-five minutes
- Three hours of presentation and response — all participants, ten minutes each, ten minutes of response each, five on Day One and four on Day Two
- One hour with the Dream Incubator Group, placed Saturday evening so there is something collective to respond to
- Forty-five minutes of sustained talking, once, on the first morning
- Two blocks inside Research Catalogue, at the end of each day
Location
Drew University, Dorothy Young Center for the Arts, Room 003
or online via Google Meet
Directions: Dorothy Young Center Building, Print Workshop 003.
Parking lot off Lancaster Road—just a short stroll to the building.
Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/gzp-xjuy-ygn
Or dial: (US) +1 617-675-4444 PIN: 848 964 010 4682#
More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/gzp-xjuy-ygn?pin=8489640104682
Day One
Walk in from 9:30 AM.
Being perplexed · choosing a concept · the first making| 10:00 | Attunement | Practice of Attunement |
|---|---|---|
| 10:15–10:30 | Apophatic Provocation | Creative Block |
| 10:30–10:45 | Introductions | Living the Question |
| 10:45–11:00 | Orientation | — |
| 11:00–11:15 | Break | — |
| 11:15–12:00 | Departing · apophatic thought, artistic research, aesthetic inquiry | — |
| 12:00–1:00 | Movement One · Being Perplexed | The Without |
| 1:00–2:00 | Lunch | — |
| 2:00–3:00 | Movement Two · Choosing a Noncept | Attractive Reading |
| 3:00–3:15 | Break | — |
| 3:15–4:30 | Presentations · 5 participants | — |
| 4:30–5:00 | Break | — |
| 5:00 | Guest Lecture · Ruby J. Thelot | Quantification is Death |
| 6:00–7:30 | Dinner Dates w/ the Dream Incubator and Kythe Heller | — |
| 7:30 | Day One Goodbyes | — |
Day Two
| 09:30–10:00 | Attunement & Distillation | Practice of Reading (Distillation) |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00–10:30 | Guest Lecturer · William Franke & Béatrice Machet | — |
| 10:30–11:15 | Movement Three · Reflection Through Making | An Ecology in Action |
| 11:15–11:30 | Break | — |
| 11:30–12:10 | Presentations · participants 6, 7 | — |
| 12:10–1:10 | Lunch | — |
| 1:10–2:10 | Movement Four · Indirect Dwelling | The Removal |
| 2:10–2:50 | Presentations · participants 8, 9 | — |
| 2:50–3:05 | Break | — |
| 3:05–4:00 | Draw Your Own Path Workshop with John F. Simon Jr. | — |
| 4:00–4:30 | Movement Five · Reflecting on Qualities | Perceptual Awareness Without Judgment |
| 4:30–5:00 | Notation & Upload | Describe the Weather |
| 5:00 | Brief Break | — |
| 5:15–6:00 | Closing · The Untied Cord | — |