Thursday 24 September 2015

Thoughts from the studio floor-Body archaeology

We decided to use that term to define today's work.  Following Foucault's idea of the 'archaeology' of knowledge'- the strata of knowledge in the vertical axis of the historical process- we allow the three layers we have worked so far - the 'original', the trace, the reflection of seeing another move through a task base on 'our' material, to be the terrain of today's investigation...




A poetic archaeology as the past may resurface, whilst the recent may dive to the depths, as if momentarily forgotten, perhaps to resurface again...later...Archaeology ...in Greek ' arxi' - origin ... the root of archive...