HOME > LATENCY STRUCTURES > ABOUT Latency +/- transport, a 'real presencing' , this is necessarily political, then, never not that, these  art-actions. Art is / not figuration beyond representation.  Making moves,  moving inside spaces that cannot be otherwise mapped in fact the map is generative like a living drawing-- these psychogeographic pathways, these take us beyond each of us, beyond the belief or the illusion of the difference/differance of terror.  To be passionate about this and to believe that this is possible always even in the most terrible times is a value to live for--  even a charism/ a gift/ a love/ . In this way also we can return to Lygia Clark and her amazing example of risk-taking to make art in the breach / in the leap from comfort into zones of transport and healing. How to redeem the time?  how to redeem our time? So little we have of it, so much power in the generative actions we can take? ‘Latency Structures’ touches on elements in my oeuvre that remap or repurpose design strategies from another field ( radical experimental architecture) and/or use representational modes through displacement (geophysical visualizations and mapping). Latency: many the slip between cup and lip. Latency--potentially existing, yet to come. “So as to imagine a future not defined by trauma, acquiring through its'repression and latency the power to become the dominating tendency' (Griselda Pollock) You can have just a line there, not doing anything, and then it can suddenly burst into life” -Laura Marks http://www.mindgap.org/index.php/laura-u-marks/latency/ "Concrete poetry is a para-linguistic reality that may be identified because the linguistic signs which participate in it (together with so many other signs) do not intervene in the making up of meaning as units of languages with a double articulation, but as signs which oppose themselves to the second articulation" (Ss 253),(22) that is, linguistic signs in concrete poetry are equivalent to the elements of "artistic expressions" [expressions artistiques]. Augusto de Campos's opinion on the "social mission" of poetry: "The true social mission of poetry would be to stir latent energies in language so as to overthrow its petrifying dogmas, and to revitalize it. This is a mission that takes place in the ethic and aesthetic exigences of true poetry, which prefers running the risk of being unknown rather than being labelled by the inquisitorial patterns of language" (Mc 114).(47) http://www.ubu.com/papers/pineda.html Christina McPhee 2008 Latency Structures: project statement Christina McPhee-5/08 View works from Latency Structures >>