{"id":2100,"date":"2014-07-13T02:50:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T09:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/?page_id=2100"},"modified":"2014-07-13T02:50:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T09:50:21","slug":"chris-cottrell-2014","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/chris-cottrell-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Cottrell 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/files\/2014\/07\/Cottrell_Chris-300x180.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2102\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/files\/2014\/07\/Cottrell_Chris-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Cottrell\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Atmospheric\u2014Making<\/h1>\n<p>Taking turbulence as both conceptual driver  and organisational strategy, this paper gathers together recent drawing,  installation and performative works, and examines the dynamics of this  collection, articulating the forces at play. Turbulence is understood as  forceful and transformative, occurring in the space between, and as a  result of, dramatic changes in pressure. Projects are developed through  an experimental practice of \u201catmospheric\u2013making,\u201d accreting particles  across a range of scales to the point that these individual constituents  become subsumed within a larger atmospheric condition. This two-way  dynamic between the particular and the atmospheric seeks points of  tension, where new qualities emerge from the interplay between particles  and systems.<\/p>\n<p>Three modes of crossing\u2013between the  particular and the atmospheric will be discussed. The first is  developing relations between material and immaterial media to inhabit a  threshold position between these two. Secondly, these (im)materials are  used to activate spaces of betweenness, drawing attention to these  liminal zones. The final crossing\u2013between aims to disrupt a clear and  defined epistemology, instead privileging an approach that embraces  uncertainty, vagueness and changefulness.<\/p>\n<p>These approaches question the idea of a  defined and knowable world that is able to be captured through  representational techniques. In place of this is a bodily process of  figuring out, requiring immersion and active participation in making  sense of atmospheric conditions. This bodily engagement results in  blurring a distinct sense of self, and challenges participants to take  part in a process of co-formation between environmental surrounds and  distributed presence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Cottrell<\/strong> is an artist with an architectural  background, who works primarily in installation and performative art  contexts. He is currently investigating ideas of atmosphere, turbulence  and thresholding as research towards a practice-based PhD at RMIT  University, where he also lectures in the Interior Design programme. He  has shown work extensively in New Zealand, Australia and the United  Kingdom and held artist residencies in Piran, Slovenia; the Orkney  Islands, Scotland; and Fox Glacier, New Zealand. Creative projects are  archived at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.make-do.net\">www.make-do.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Atmospheric\u2014Making Taking turbulence as both conceptual driver and organisational strategy, this paper gathers together recent drawing, installation and performative works, and examines the dynamics of this collection, articulating the forces at play. Turbulence is understood as forceful&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43221,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":32,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2100","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2100\/revisions\/2106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/tiic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}