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]>
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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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