Eye of Horus: Lost and Found - open day Saturday 10 March 11am - 5pm

You are invited to the last day of Eye of Horus: Lost and Found, a project by Toni Warburton, in dialogue with John von Sturmer:


Saturday 10 March, 11 am - 5 pm
 at Articulate project space
497 Parramatta Road, Leichhardt 2040.

Eye of Horus: Lost and Found - documentation

Toni Warburton Template Panorama 2012 (day 8 of project) photo: William Seeto

Facebook comment:  William Seeto posted an image of my work  in process on Facebook  and this lead me to think  in the following way. I have edited this further from my face book post in response to some “likes”

Eye  of Horus: Lost and Found 

This is a changing wall situation so is not actually an installed exhibition.  Wiliam Seeto has made a remarkable photographic image of a very provisional moment within a process of happening ( Sunday 4^th March light shadow material space). So an open-ended installing is happening but with no specific intention to arrive at a consolidated moment of installation. Articulate has invited me to work experimentally in the space for two weeks and to think about the implications and modes of documentation.

My focus orientates within the more than four cardinal points of 2D, 3D, thought, materiality, action, collaboration and participation, geometric shapes, embodied line and the contours of vases and remembered terrains. On the basis of my interest in his scans of found  objects and our  ideas for a collaborative artist book in progress, I have invited John von Sturmer to participate in this research. He has created a self-documenting work of text and scans titled Reality Check.  And  on Sunday  he installed a found tubular assemblage as a splayed tripod: a spirited threshold piece.

For the duration  of this situation at Articulate I have named my exploratory  process which retrieves and discards, convenes and disperses transmutes and distils : Eye of Horus: Lost and Found. Perhaps this documentation image of a template panorama, created by William Seeto has revealed a  work? What is a work? Is it a form of stasis of an artist’s intervention that ís called completion? A stoppage that nonetheless enters a new dynamic of being seen? The space may well be emptied by the last day.

Toni Warburton 6^th March 2012

Eye of Horus: Lost and Found - John von Sturmer's Reality Check

Day 1

OK, so you can wake with a question: What is ‘real’? When have you or do

you feel most real? When do you feel reality is on your side – or against you

for that matter? Somehow we think that reality should be our ally – but is it?

What we might say is that any experience or encounter with the real –

whatever that is – defines our view of what the future will or should be.

Utopianism is never, as it were, off the planet, for it is based in experience.

Experience guides us, whether we like it or not or know it or not. Standing

against experience is the injunction. That too is an experience. To be told

what to do or how to think. We can conform or we can refuse or we can

hover in a sort of questioning state. In each case our relationship to our own

experiencing is modulated or shaped – to such a degree that if we think about

it we may think that refusal – of the command, as we shall call it – is the only

real emancipatory strategy. But freedom from what? Only the command

itself, of the freedom to experience experience as experience itself?

Today I’ve been asked to participate in an art show/event. Short notice. That

is probably good. It may even suit given my commitment to the immediacy of

the now.

Now, what is that? Something that in the next hair’s breadth/breath will be

then, involving a shift from experiencing – ‘We are experiencing this now’ – to

‘I experienced this’. Except we may already be in anticipatory mode so that

the experience is casually shelved or put back in the drawer like the knives

and forks we have just neatly dried. You hang up the tea towel. On it there’s a

view of a woman’s back. On one side there is a knife – the right side of

course. On the other side, the left side there is a fork. Please note carefully,

the symbolic order is nicely maintained. Scrupulously, we might even say,

except that what is characteristic of the symbolic order is that it is merely

enacted. So that what we experience as real may simply be the enactment of

the symbolic order. That is our ordering reality. To experience the symbolic

order as the symbolic order you have to recognise its symbolic function or

aspect.

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Eye of Horus / Lost and found - Day 6

above 2: Pavagadh (Gujarat)

 Above: Toni Warburton; Below: John Von Sturmer (objects for scanning)

 

 below: Toni Warburton

TONI WARBURTON 'Eye of Horus / lost and found' 27 February - 11 March

This project will retrieve  some things  that are not completely lost, not completely forgotten: a collaborative artists’ book / ideas for exhibitions / project proposals that  have  ideas that stick / drawings  about walks / drawings about mountains / 8mm films / photographs / dialogues.

Installed at articulate today

Token gestures

(Placed In a line on the floor beside the brick wall)

Watercolour tracings of objects in hand  onto print out of 4 pages of  reality  check  by invited artist John von Sturmer

“The plan was for me to simply continue to write (not so simple) and to produce a new text every day - as well as a scan. Therefore my work would be self-documenting. Of course this immediately draws attention to the restricted and selective nature of all/any documentation/documenting process”jvs

1 Pocket Diary/ 2.zip pencil case/ 3 change purse and penknife/4 open ray ban sunglasses case/ 4. wooden comb

Retrievals Placed on gallery floor

Waterfall words to a song by Jimy Hendrix  (tw)

Image scan and scan manifesto text  (jvs emails) January2012

Mountain drawings on canvas and muslin

Redemptive gestures

Yesterday I put the animation rostrum designed and made for me by my father ,and consigned to the weather without my knowledge, into my car. 

Today I placed it  on the floor of  the gallery,  under  the stair case,  and  began to write a text   about the 8 mm animated films I made with the help of this contraption.

Toni Warburton

Eye of Horus / lost and found is the eighth of Articulate's project space projects