About perception of art. Selected issues in the field of architecture and music coherence

W artykule skierowano uwagę na porównanie dwóch – zdaje się całkowicie różnych – sztuk: muzyki i architektury. Ze względu na złożoność problematyki zakres badań ograniczono do wybranych zagadnień, w szczególności: zmienności wrażeń i odbioru w czasie, a także zestawienia cech wspólnych i różnych w odniesieniu do formy i struktury dzieł. Wskazując cechy, które wydają się wspólne, przedstawiono zależności związane z istnieniem muzyki i architektury w przestrzeni. Porównanie tych cech stanowi intrygującą inspirację dla dokonania analizy porównawczej, zapoczątkowanej wspomnieniem muzycznych zainteresowań profesora Wojciecha Kosińskiego.The article focuses on the comparison of two – seemingly completely different – arts: music and architecture. Due to the complexity of the subject matter, the scope of research was limited to selected issues – in particular: variability of impressions and perception over time, also comparisons of common and different features in relation to the form and structure of works. By indicating the features that seem to be common, relationships related to the existence of music and architecture in space are presented. The comparison of these features is an intriguing inspiration for a comparative analysis, initiated by the memory of the musical interests of professor Wojciech Kosiński

Slow Seeing

Slow Seeing is an exhibition of paintings, prints, collages and a video work that together reflect the procedural occurrences of a form of slow seeing. A proposition in discovering the iterative potentials of a process made knowable through the direct engagement and manipulation of materials and different modes of making. As an exhibition, Slow Seeing is a translation of an idea and a work from one medium to another, as an exploration and consideration of process, material and perception. Slow Seeing is an experience offered to the viewer in deciphering the imprinted, residual relationships between the works in the exhibition. Requests to move, pause, relook and ruminate are hoped to be imbued upon the viewer as an embodiment of slow seeing. Slow Seeing is a description of a methodological mode of working, through thinking and discovering the latent potentials in thoughts already thought, materials and experiences alike

Journeys through Architecture: the Body, Spaces, and Arts in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage

The inter-arts potential of Dorothy Miller Richardson’s life’s work, Pilgrimage, has been gaining critical attention since the end of the twentieth century, with continuous scholarly efforts dedicated in revealing the cinematic, painterly, and musical depths of the novel sequence. Building on such established foundation, this study responds to this inter-arts call of Richardson scholarship by taking an architectural turn, and contends Pilgrimage as a piece of architectural construct—a literary work that demonstrates the coming together of the body, spaces, and arts. Interdisplinary in nature, this study draws on diverse fields of inquiry in its configuration of the architectural as manifested in Pilgrimage, with two interconnecting sections. Merleau-Ponty’s perceptual phenomenology and recent theorisations of body-space interaction in various disciplines, such as cultural geography and anthropology, underpin the first section of the discussion, which attempts to explicate the spatial significance implied in Miriam’s (the protagonist) sensuous interactions with the different kinds of space around or within her. While the first section underscores how the art of literature embodies Miriam’s sensuous-spatial dynamics, the second section illuminates how the spatial arts of painting and architecture come into contact with Pilgrimage. Collaborating biographical, painterly, literary, and phenomenological approaches, the thesis considers the sequence’s manoeuver over the issues of simultaneity, instaneity, moment, and subject matter as the manifestation of literary impressionism. After contemplating Pilgrimage as a piece of literary impressionism, the discussion concludes by considering the sequence as a piece of haptic architecture, with the notion of ‘fragile architecture’ formulated by Juhani Pallasmaa. By re-examining how Miriam’s body, spaces, and arts interact and integrate throughout Pilgrimage, the thesis aspires to bring to light its architectural disposition

Washington University Record, May 18, 1995

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Philosophy & Architecture

Philosophy & Architecture special number of philosophy@LISBON (International eJournal) 5 | 2016 edited by Tomás N. Castro with Maribel Mendes Sobreira Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa ISSN 2182-437

Auslegung: A journal of philosophy, volume 19, number 2 (summer, 1993) book reviews

Reviews of Roger D. Masters' "The Nature of Politics"; Fred Feldman's "Confrontations with the Reaper"; Rudiger Safranski's "Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy"; Nicholas Rescher and Peter Lang's "Moral Absolutes: An Essay on The Natural and Rationale of Morality"; "Aesthetics: A Critical Anthology"; Steven C. Rockefeller's "John Dewey: Religious Faith and Democratic Humanism"; Rudolf A. Makkreel's "Imagination and Interpretation in Kant: The Hermeneutical Import of the Critique of Judgment.

A Course of Becoming: Autobiography, Knowledge, Memory and (Re) Constructing Identity

This major research paper will examine the concept of Toward a Course of Becoming: Autobiography, Knowledge, Memory and (Re) Constructing Identity. Throughout the discussion, significant considerations into possible contributions of William Pinar’s (1975) Currere Method (regressive, progressive, analytical, and synthetical) juxtaposed against Stuart Hall’s theory on Identity will further substantiate my discourse. In addition to Pinar and Hall, autobiographical writing will reflect on American Civil Rights Activist Frederick Douglass’ autobiography Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave written by Himself (1845). Canada’s first Black Member of Parliament, Cabinet Minister and Lieutenant- Governor of Ontario; Lincoln M. Alexander’s Go to School, You’re a little black boy (2010) will also focus my discussion on conceptualizing autobiography, knowledge, memory and their interrelationships within the framework of (re) constructing identity. The main aim of this analysis is to derive a sense of the autobiographical course run by the Caribbean (migrant) subject constructing and re-constructing senses of identity, belonging, being, and becoming. The intention of the research is to indicate the potential contribution of specifically Caribbean and African descent, (im) migrant North American autographical experience to the currere approach to curriculum understanding