Interesting. I remember the Gysin show here some years ago, & how some
of his paintings did indeed feel like a kind of writing without words.
And there he is.
Doug
On 26-Jan-09, at 3:19 PM, Sheila Murphy wrote:
> If I may offer a point of consideration:
>
> Haptics appear to be in confluence with asemic writing.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asemic_writing
>
> There are a number of wonderful practitioners of this art.
>
> I make this suggestion NOT to clobber Stephen's miracles with a label.
> Rather, to provide additional context. Haptics do not need further
> context, but such context might be rewarding.
>
> Sheila
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Stephen Vincent
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Kasper - Yes, here is my 'Artist Note' for my new drawing show,
>> Haptics, here in San Francisco:
>>
>> A Note on Making Haptics:
>>
>> The notion of 'haptic space' is not based purely on touch alone,
>> nor on the duality between toucher and touched. It is "an
>> orientation to sensuality as such that includes all senses" (Iris
>> Marion Young).
>> - Mark Paterson
>>
>> Until recently most of my creative life has been devoted to poetry.
>> Some ask what is the connection between making haptics and making
>> poems. I was not sure how to answer that question until a longtime
>> friend and poet, Beverly Dahlen, pointed out that she could
>> identify a connection between my handwriting and the haptic work.
>> I was not sure at first, but now I think the haptics are one way of
>> writing poetry without words. Ultimately, a way of creating a
>> visual score for this world.
>>
>> Stephen Vincent
>> January 2009
>>
>> Hope that is helpful.
>>
>> Stephen V
>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>> Currently Home of "Haptics: Obama's First 100 Days"
>> (Actually 'Haptics' & Commentary)
>>
>>
>>
>> --- On Mon, 1/26/09, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> From: kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject:
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Date: Monday, January 26, 2009, 1:13 PM
>>
>> what is this "haptics" I keep hearing about?
>>
>> KS
>>
>> 2009/1/26 Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>>> "The First 100 Days of President Obama" is a new, current
>> project on my
>>> blog, including haptics & commentary, etc. The texts vary, but
>>> here is
>> the
>>> start of yesterday's text - from "Obama: Day Five" to give a
>> brief clue of
>>> some the range of interests:
>>>
>>> This afternoon I went to a poets' panel at the San Francisco
>>> Museum of
>> Art
>>> (Joinery: Poems on the occasion of Martin Puryear)
>>> . Subject: Martin Puryear, an African-American sculptor who works
>>> primarily in wood. (Go to the SFMOMA website, among others to see
>>> photographic samples of the work). The poets included:David
>>> Levi-Strauss (moderator & poet & critic), and poets, Norma
>>> Cole, Aaron Shurin, Susan Thackery, and Michael Palmer. All of whom
>>> spoke well about interpreting the work, some from the point of
>>> view of the
>>> ways in
>>> Puryear's practice of 'joinery' mirrored various aspects of
>> the ways in
>>> which their own poetry - in terms of collage, and/or the translation
>>> process of working or joining English to another language. Others
>>> spoke
>>> directly to the psychological experience of responding and
>>> incorporating the work in the process of both looking...
>>>
>>> To continue go to: http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>>>
>>>
>>> Stephen Vincent
>>>
>>> By the way, if you are visiting or living in San Francisco, my show,
>>> "Haptics" just opened at the Braunstein-Quay Gallery, 430
>> Clemintina Street,
>>> SF - 3 blocks South of Market, between 5th and 6th. Samples of
>>> the work
>>> are through out the blog, as well as on the Braunstein-Quay
>>> webstite.
>>> http://www.braunsteinquay.com/archive/access_vincent2008.html
>>>
>>
>
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