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Speculative aesthetics
Full text linkEdited by James Trafford, Robin Mackay, and Luke Pendrell. Documenting a roundtable on the ramifications of Speculative Realism for aesthetics, this discussion ranges from contemporary art's relation to the aesthetic, to accelerationism and abstraction, logic and design
Speculative Tate
No full textSpeculative Realism is a term that is used to describe an approach that attempts to consider art, politics, nature and thought beyond the confines of human finitude. The term is often ascribed both to a conference of the same name held at Goldsmiths in 2007, and a disparate set of thinkers. This centered on the work of philosophers Quentin Meillassoux, Ray Brassier, Iain Hamilton Grant and GrahamHarman. Often referred to as a movement, Speculative Realism is perhaps best used to describe an ongoing, disparate, attempt to construct radical and emancipatory trajectories of thought, art, and political praxis. These include accelerationist politics; reconsidering the role of art and design; the disruption of human experience and access to the “real”; innovative engagement with mathematics, logic, neuroscience andtechnology. These emerging positions, still in a statefluxcan be seen rapidly evolving on-line in heavily viewed and active discussion forums. The resultant work has been rapidly taken up in cultural theory and contemporary art andcuration. The Speculative Tate research series is a collaboration between Tate Britain and Speculative Aesthetics Research Project to explore the question “What bearing does Speculative Realism have upon aesthetics in theory andpractice?” It is an attempt to further investigate and develop the emergent field of Speculative Aesthetics, with particular attention to: the socio-historical relationship between art and design; the relationship between speculative aesthetics and design; the conceptual and pragmatic role of artistic experience; the navigational potential of aesthetics. To explore the possibility of a theory and practice no longer invested in the otherworldly promise of the aesthetic, but acknowledging the real force and traction of images in the worldtoday
Spectral transmissions research unit - A common treasury
No full textIn the beginning of Time, the great Creator Reason, made the Earth to be a Common Treasury, Amid all our familiar scenes stand memorials of the people who were here before us. In the wild magic of midsummer night's eve, we embark on an hallucinatory journey through weed choked lay-bys where normative logic bends and succumbs to the tangential, the wayward and the transcendental. Here the ether is populated with unruly beasts and revolting peasants, an insolent jumble of noises, fragments and connections, unobserved rites, wild anarchy and the violence that haunts the spectral pastoral
Mr. Dynamite
No full textAudio Visual collaboration with Stephen Mallinder for Creep Show. The visuals expand on this universe, referencing everything from early surrealist cinema to classic counter cultural texts. Stephen Mallinder calls it “a high-speed chase through a busted cathode ray tube, a bullet train ride along the rails of pop art’s underbelly…” and we’re inclined to agree. Director Luke Pendrell is more forthright, calling the video: “A hyper collage of machinic desires. A collision of technology and the supernatural. An AI attempting to assimilate and reconcile Crowley, Anger and Kubelka. A dromological stichomancy, seeking and making configurations and invocations from the haunted detritus of an accelerated culture.
Their Majesties Lüdd Puka - Samhain 02_Darkside (Whole Of The Law) Their Majesties Lüdd Puka - The Concrete Acid Echo Tapes
No full textMusical compositions and spoken word
Amass, You Radiant Heretics Beneath The Flailing Sprawl: SODIUM SPECTRES SLIP ROAD SIGILS (AWAKE ALL YOU DEAD SPIRITS)
No full textA series of live performances, moving image and audio works based on the text above. The evening was a curated event live streamed across the internet featuring various artists. The event orientated around the winter solstice, ran form sundown on the night of the 20th to sunrise on the 21st of December 2020
The shape of the void
Full text linkGeographies and the territories that opportunistically spring up to inhabit them, populate their landscapes and exploit their riches are merely superficial manifestations of more substratal tendencies of movement. What appears stable and static is, in fact, volatile, mutable, unstable. Coastal erosion, whether attributed to climate change or less anthropocene causes, can be read as a hyper-accelerated manifestation of geological time on a human scale. The processes of geological change, measured out in millennia and thus ordinarily imperceptible to the evanescent oscillations of human mortality, and the imaginations seated therein are dromologically condensed to a scale measurable in months or years. This sudden access or awareness, or maybe confluence between human and geological time, gives us a glimpse into the scales of the universe normally incomprehensible, and in doing so a glimpse too of our fragility and ephemerality. This article in itself ‘a quantity of faded images accompanied by only partial notations’ explores the way in which the tools and apparatuses we use to interrogate the detritus of both past and the present are unstable, mutable and often inadequate
Broken Symmetries
No full textA new collaborative sound and text intervention by Lendl Barcelos, Luke Pendrell, Henrik Hjorth Austad, James Trafford and Katrina Burch set against the undulating forms of Henry Moore
Spectral transmissions research unit - Above us the waves
No full text"You wont never fynd no beginning its long gone and far pas." 'If we look through the aperture which we have Jess opened up onto the absolute, what we see there is a rather menacing power, something insensible, and capable of destroying both things and worlds, of bringing forth monstrous absurdities, of realizing every dream, but also every nightmare, of engendering random and frenetic transformations, or conversely, of producing a universe that remains motionless down to its ultimate recesses, like a cloud bearing the fiercest storms, then the eeriest bright spells, if only for an interval of disquieting calm." "To push anything back into the past is equivalent to reducing it to its simplest elements. Traced as far as possible in the direction of their origins, the last fibres of the human aggregate are lost to view and are merged in our eyes with the very stuff of the universe
THE CONCRETE ACID ECHO TAPES
No full textTHE CONCRETE ACID ECHO TAPES (DR RAYPOWER vs. His Majesties LüDD PUCA) by DR. RAYPOWER from LIVE AT THE BROADMARSH SHOPPING CENTRE CHRISTMAS '92, produced by LUDD PÚCA. The Concrete acid echo tapes resurface buried signals, emitted by spectres now cast out. The brutal dance echoes like sonic plattenbau. Undergirds the Real with a fluid solvent
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