Mence, T (2025) Memento-mori in painting: an image of multiplicities. A practice-led project expanding the notion of memento-mori in painting. Investigated via a stuttering-thinking and a visual-stuttering developed out of a critical and clinical stutter. PhD thesis, Bath Spa University. doi: 10.17870/bathspa.00017034
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Abstract
Through an active engagement with works by the French classicist painter Nicolas Poussin and making use of photographs recording domestic interiors belonging the recently deceased, this practice-led project explores painting’s relationship with Memento-Mori (meaning: Remember you Have to Die) via a theoretical and practical stuttering mode of painting. Informed by the act of making paintings and using an exhibition of paintings as a structure to map its questions, insights and theories, the project’s aim is to expand the notion of Memento-Mori in painting beyond being represented by objects signifying a sequential concept of time. The project moves the notion towards being alternatively represented as an image of temporally-indeterminate multiplicities, indicative of the temporal indetermination of a life-span. Out of this expansion, the transformation of a critical stutter – via tacit knowledge of a clinical stutter – into a painterly mode of stuttering-thinking and visual-stuttering is developed to form a crucial element lying at the heart of the project. Under the precepts of this stuttering-thinking and visual-stuttering, the painted grid is used as a device to counterintuitively connect and disrupt, reflective of a non-sequential concept of time. This use of the grid pivots on the fluid relationship within a painting between Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s concepts of ‘smooth’ and ‘striated’ space, and Alois Riegl’s concepts of the ‘haptic’ and the ‘optic’. The project proposes that Memento-Mori as a notion in painting could be thought of as a creational research tool to drive a painting practice, and that tacit knowledge (and, even, learned knowledge) of a clinical-stutter can form an integral and beneficial part of a painting practice.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
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| Keywords: | PhD by Practice, painting, paintings, multiplicities, memento-mori, Nicolas Poussin, stuttering, stutter, stammering, stammer, probate, time, non-sequential, glitch, memory, grid, interiors, haptic, optic, smooth, striated, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari |
| Divisions: | Bath School of Art, Film and Media |
| Date Deposited: | 02 May 2025 16:16 |
| Last Modified: | 02 May 2025 16:21 |
| URI / Page ID: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/17034 |
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