Catching up and marking the time

A completly accidental picture of me skiing, I was trying to do a panorama of the view - I like the fact it's a strange format and the texture of the snow and that its a detail but I remember where it is.  I didn't take any PhD type books with me on holiday because I realised I was in need of a break.  I had not realised how much I had gotten sucked into the RD1 and the ethical applications. I had also done an arts council application to support my placement/residency at the adventure playground.  It was about two weeks of solid sitting down writing and with the reading I'd been squeezing in it felt like I was force fitting myself into the rather to small trousers.  I was like Cinderellas sister trying to push my foot into the glass slipper all the time knowing it wouldn't fit and even if it did I didn't really want to marry the prince.  The week off was great I went back to not been able to tell anyone what my PhD was about and switching my brain off a bit.

I have been busy since i got back partly with the Odd project then a bit of teaching and also I went to the national play conference with the adventure playground.  It feels like the great achievement of the PhD will be to accomodate and work with the actuality of the role of artist without having to find any edges.  Kate has said I can't mention Deleuze  but I think this may be a process of de-territorilastion which is about not really having any edges.  So the idea of not having edges but having ever shifting horizons that become from the ground or earth of the plane of immanence. 

here were my notes from spending a day thinking about it - they are a bit like hanging your washing out in public or being run over and having dirty underpants on.  Maybe I will get away with it if I put them in italics - I like the quote at the end from Del and Gats - What is Philosphy.

So this is a bit of analytical philosophy on Deleurze plane of immanace

 It says that the plane of immanence is the ground from where all thought and all things emerge – it is Deleuze drawing on Spinoza and is a way of saying that Deleuze needs to create a space that is totalizing to the extent that it doesn’t or can’t be transcended as everything starts and finishes within it .   It is unknowable a constantly moving horizon that is not related to the subjective – not seen from any point – so it removes or moves towards the Temporal rather than the Spatial as a way of thinking. After Bergson rather than the spatial way of thinking – so the plain of immanance is held within a single point of time rather than space which is easier to imagine- the analogy of a cell holding genetic material that dictates its future and holds its past within a single present – probably best not to say moment although I think the term molecule is used which feels unintentionally reductionist ( possible the idea of the singularity comes from this way of thinking. ) I think it is the basis of deteroterilising as it does not have any location to be territorialized.  So Deluezes even gets away with saying that Phenomenology and materialism and other sorts of pragmatic realism all are transcendent as there grounds – the soil they grow from are points to be transcended – understanding the plane of immanence then is the key to why all the ESRI post structural types don’t think they are being metaphysical or transcendental. It feels like an excuse to me though and I’m not sure many people or how many people have worked this out even if its quite simple but a bit daft.  

   'people are constantly putting up an umbrella that shelters them and on the underside of which they draw armament and write their convention and opinions. But poets, artists, make a slit in the umbrella, they tear open the armament itself, to let in a bit of free and windy chaos and to frame in a sudden light a vision that appears through the rent—Wordsworth’s spring or Cézanne’s apple, the silhouettes of Macbeth or Ahab. (WP, 203–204)'

I then went to the National play conference in Eastborne and presented with Patrick as we used this picture I thought I would put it here because it made me think about time and its funny - this is from when I first met Patrick so in a way it could be an edge.

 I also did a talk about artistic methods for Chritine on the MA and I really enjoyed it as it felt like for the first time in a while I was bang in the middle of my experience rather than on the edge of it .  I used this quote from Mishima :-

“He found himself in the strange predicament all sailors share: essentially he belonged neither to the land nor to the sea. Possibly a man who hates the land should dwell on shore forever. Alienation and the long voyages at sea will compel him once again to dream of it, torment him with the absurdity of longing for something that he loathes.”

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 Yukio Mishima       The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea

I have used it lots in the past as it is how I feel about art - I am the artist who fell from grace with art so I have to stay on the land so I don't feel sad but as I said it It didn't ring very true as that seems to be that I am falling in love with art again as I see how big it can become in a world of small things.

 We had a good time in Eastborne it was interesting to say how the playwork field encounters research and encounter the academic world I will think about it more and write about it later.