The Emergent Subject
ADAM PHILLIPS [on Sebald] Tradition of Melancholy. People who try to locate this fundamental feeling of loss in history [anchor]…at a loss. The history gives you some sort of story about this. The feeling is that there has been some sort of catastrophe that cannot be located and that one is living in the aftermath of that catastrophe. To capture perception [Patience After Sebald] “I want to tell you a story about a walk but in fact I have told you a story about the catastrophes of Western culture since the Second World War. The fear is; if you stop and allow yourself to be a writer [an artist] the catastrophe will be like an avalanche. Whereas, if you keep walking, you might be ok”. HG ADLER [The Journey] serves as an image of fate [or] a timeless metaphor for the plight of the people who have been forbidden. The metaphor also represents memory itself, which sets out onto a journey and is also dragged along through constant wandering. Rings of Saturn. An account of a walking tour in Suffolk. But is really a metaphor for [Adler / Journey metaphor] for the catastrophe in Europe [Holocaust]. The people he meets, the places he visits, the historical and literary references prompted by what he sees and what he senses. To take my mind on a journey. Red Bank [North Manchester] Becomes a palimpsest for meditations about Holocaust events and catastrophe. Memories and continuities [and that nothing ever
entirely disappears. To Make film, to draw, etch and print and to write. Mieke Bal: Stories – Acts of Memory. Matta, Gottlieb. Avoidance of contrivance. Emergent narratives. The Emergent Subject. Artist Jon Barraclough. Film and sound. The choices we make affect the narratives. How do we investigate, what emerges? To make the invisible, visible. To re-invoke something that we cannot see anymore. How time affects the way we see things. Transcendental, irreverent, artist as sorcerer. Karen Wilkins American commentator on the Abstract Expressionists. How do we draw transcendental? [This connects with time] Da Vinci Deluge drawings. “Make the clouds driven by the impetuosity of the wind and flung against the lofty mountain tops, and wreathed and torn like waves beating upon rocks; the air itself terrible from the deep darkness caused by the dust and fog and heavy clouds” [The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1888, Volume 1, section 605] Drawing:Film:Narrative. Breaking the boundaries of the process of movement and time.