extract, interact, hold, clasp. When we extract we remove, take out something. I wonder whether this idea of extraction is about clarity or about a rejection. We get rid of something or we take something so that we look at it more clearly. Hold it in mind - keep it as a central concern -attend- concentrate - think of an extract. extraction takes something from a context and recontextualises it, bu the new knowledge of ts new existence, as a new thought, new body, new idea. In a recent converstaion with Charles Garoian he shared a paper with me that he was about to have published that discusses a stone. After reading his paper I mentioned my cutrrent preocupatiosn and how the stone was located within my thinking. I said 'Stones and handfuls are interesting to me, the idea of the grasp, to grasp, get a grasp of. The handful being at times too much to hold or with the potential of taking hold.' I also sent him the clay grasp image which of course is not a stone He said in response that he saw stones as ' enigmatic handfuls, their grasp questionable, difficult to get hold of, seemingly immutable while indeterminate. I encounter similar characteristics in the piece you sent me. I don't know what it is, it doesn't matter, because it is in the process of grasping its ungraspable performativity that is life affirming.
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Kimberley FosterKimberley's practice as an artist is pedagogical, it doesn’t just reference learning, it plays with, embodies and encourages learning at its core. The objects consider ideas of collaboration and authorship, discussions about touch and encounter, and bring into active consideration issues of learning within social and participatory practices. Archives
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