A fragment of time in the pure state; painting in search of haptic time

Harland, E. J. (2009) A fragment of time in the pure state; painting in search of haptic time. Journal of Visual Arts Practice, 8 (1&2), 37-58.

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Abstract

This paper presents aspects of a sustained piece of practice-based research arguing for an alignment of painting’s temporality with Proustian ‘time regained’ and Deleuze’s ‘time image’. The research argues that a close dialogue with digital imaging offers contemporary painting practice an expanded topography and contributes to its ability to ‘think’ time in these terms. Painting’s time is viewed in relation to haptic visuality and filmic time and the paper proposes the notion of ‘haptic time’ as a way of conceptualising the outcome of such a dialogue. These reflections are linked to various articulations of the actual/virtual to suggest that it is through a folding of time that painting, via the digital, might make an approach to pure duration; Proust’s ‘fragment of time in the pure state’.
The edition of JVAP specifically addresses the ‘artist’s voice within academic research’ through an engagement with fine artists’ academic writing. This paper proposes a method of theorising process through a mapping of the practice via 'process notes', with reference to the series of works entitled 'Zone', which includes paintings and interactive digital pieces.

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