Connecting with the ineffable in times of flattening
Project / Editorial Team
- 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 | — |