Jac Saorsa - Beyond Logic: Deleuze, the Artist and Creative Practice
Actual Virtual Journal
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A/V#15.04 2012 Autumn
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My relation with Deleuze is one of ‘conceptual orienteering’ in that beyond discovery, familiarity and accord it defines my practice as a visual artist. My recent book, Narrating the Catastrophe focuses on the crisis of identity at the very core of this practice, and at the edges of the crisis, in amongst the pages that draw on Deleuzes’s ‘logic of sensation’, I have raised my artist’s voice in order to raise in turn my objections to a philosopher’s presumed dominion over the understanding of the nuances of practice. Deleuze acknowledges that the logic of sensation is in fact irrational and this paper will discuss my current project; Osmosis: We are a long way from Eden, which, being beyond logic, is an exploration therefore beyond the irrational. An exploration so far beyond perhaps that the irrational begins to become rational once again. This new research trajectory is a fundamentally interdisciplinary and experimental work where philosophy, history, science and art shake off academic solidity and become mutually influential within the self-generating and regenerating process perpetuated by creative drawing practice. The term ‘osmosis’ defines the movement of solvent molecules through a selectively permeable membrane and drawing is here understood as a fluid process that flows through the membrane that represents our accepted understanding of human-plant biomedical relation in terms of disease pathology. ‘Osmotic pressure’ here provides the structural support for the project, and drawings become vehicles for the dissemination of the research through the definition of new ‘equilibriums’, which define, in turn, alternative understandings. In essence this project is an attempt to address a tenacious epidemic that knows no physical or conceptual boundaries: ‘plant blindness’: ‘Plants are the most important, least understood, and most taken-for-granted of all living things’ (Wilkins 1988)
Dr Jac Saorsa is a visual artist, writer and researcher in creative art practice. She holds a PhD in philosophy and contemporary drawing practice which she completed at Loughborough University in 2004. Since then she has taught in universities in Costa Rica, Cyprus and Portugal and she is currently Lecturer in Drawing at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Narrating the Catastrophe: An Artist’s Dialogue with Deleuze and Ricoeur, Intellect Books is her latest book, published by Intellect in November 2011.
Jac’s current research involves a collaboration with the Cardiff Medical School. The ‘Drawing Cancer’ project forms part of a wider research trajectory that involves the interpretation and expression through visual art practice of the biomedical relation between human and plant morphology and physiology in terms of clinical intervention, and patient experience of disease. The primary aim is to engender, through a creative and philosophical interpretation of scientific intervention and human experience, a deeper consciousness of the human-plant relation as it pertains to physiological and emotional health.
Jac Saorsa - Beyond Logic: Deleuze, the Artist and Creative Practice
Actual Virtual Journal
2,861 views
A/V#15.04 2012 Autumn
http://www.actualvirtualjournal.com/2...
My relation with Deleuze is one of ‘conceptual orienteering’ in that beyond discovery, familiarity and accord it defines my practice as a visual artist. My recent book, Narrating the Catastrophe focuses on the crisis of identity at the very core of this practice, and at the edges of the crisis, in amongst the pages that draw on Deleuzes’s ‘logic of sensation’, I have raised my artist’s voice in order to raise in turn my objections to a philosopher’s presumed dominion over the understanding of the nuances of practice. Deleuze acknowledges that the logic of sensation is in fact irrational and this paper will discuss my current project; Osmosis: We are a long way from Eden, which, being beyond logic, is an exploration therefore beyond the irrational. An exploration so far beyond perhaps that the irrational begins to become rational once again. This new research trajectory is a fundamentally interdisciplinary and experimental work where philosophy, history, science and art shake off academic solidity and become mutually influential within the self-generating and regenerating process perpetuated by creative drawing practice. The term ‘osmosis’ defines the movement of solvent molecules through a selectively permeable membrane and drawing is here understood as a fluid process that flows through the membrane that represents our accepted understanding of human-plant biomedical relation in terms of disease pathology. ‘Osmotic pressure’ here provides the structural support for the project, and drawings become vehicles for the dissemination of the research through the definition of new ‘equilibriums’, which define, in turn, alternative understandings. In essence this project is an attempt to address a tenacious epidemic that knows no physical or conceptual boundaries: ‘plant blindness’: ‘Plants are the most important, least understood, and most taken-for-granted of all living things’ (Wilkins 1988)
Dr Jac Saorsa is a visual artist, writer and researcher in creative art practice. She holds a PhD in philosophy and contemporary drawing practice which she completed at Loughborough University in 2004. Since then she has taught in universities in Costa Rica, Cyprus and Portugal and she is currently Lecturer in Drawing at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Narrating the Catastrophe: An Artist’s Dialogue with Deleuze and Ricoeur, Intellect Books is her latest book, published by Intellect in November 2011.
Jac’s current research involves a collaboration with the Cardiff Medical School. The ‘Drawing Cancer’ project forms part of a wider research trajectory that involves the interpretation and expression through visual art practice of the biomedical relation between human and plant morphology and physiology in terms of clinical intervention, and patient experience of disease. The primary aim is to engender, through a creative and philosophical interpretation of scientific intervention and human experience, a deeper consciousness of the human-plant relation as it pertains to physiological and emotional health.