The Monist Kingdom series adopts the
materialist philosophy of Benedict Spinoza (1632-77): everything that exists is
composed of a single substance, matter, and all matter is ‘alive.’ Bodies
across all kingdoms of classification, as a plurality of diversely formed
matters—plants, animals, minerals, machines, buildings, landscapes, and so
forth—act and are acted upon, their mutual modulations constituting what is.
From this perspective questions of landscape and aesthetics are transformed
into physical questions: i.e., knowing what a particular body is capable of and
how particular bodies combine in beneficial or destructive mixtures through
their positive and negative encounters. In landscape architecture what matters,
the only thing that matters, is how bodies interact with and transform one
another. As in the original meaning of aesthetics, concerned not with beauty or
taste but with how the world strikes the body, a body of organisms or molecules
is understood not as good or bad, but in terms of its agential powers: with how
it increases or diminishes the powers of the other bodies (human and nonhuman,
natural and artifactual) with which it interacts. The submitted collages, which
mass together a multitude of bodies and exist as bodies, perform within these
parameters. Their logic is a full-body logic of sense in which color
temperature, collision of form, pattern of juxtaposition, the site in which
they are experienced, the perceivers, participate in constituting a dynamic,
morphogenic assemblage of bodies—that is, a Monist Kingdom.
images and text via: maxhooperschneider.com
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