Friday 15 June 2012

Bibliography Overview: 'Brunelleschi, Lacan, Le Corbusier. Architecture, space and the construction of subjectivity'

I am in Moscow at the moment and had a chance to rethink my results being in different surroundings. At some point I realised that books I read have a great impact on my practice. Consciously or unaware of that, I examine thoughts that I get while reading or reflect on that what I read by means of drawing or sculptural experimentation. At this point I think that it would be important to create a reading list for future theoretical investigation, which I intend to write about later.

One the books I am still trying to gain a better understanding of is 'Brunelleschi, Lacan, Le Corbusier. Architecture, space and the construction of subjectivity' by Lorens Holm. I am reading part 5 at the moment, which is named 'The origins of Perspective' and very much interested in his debate about Brunelleschi's demonstration. The author points out the fundamentals of the experiment from the architectural position; he questions the essence of viewing and therefore the approaches to the occupation of space (or its image in the dialectics of possible 'reality' of the latter) as well as the 'outside' of it and the subjectivity of this perception. 

Front Cover
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While reading, I am concerned with the challenge of creating a device for the perception of the image of the space and therefore the boarders of mediation between 'viewing' and occupation and the presence of the latter at all as a result of this engagement. I wish to experiment with the argument whether 'seeing' an image could actually represent space occupation and whether what I am creating is the space, which takes a manifestation of a view.

Experiment
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