Volumetric Striation and the

Tactile Burden of Severality

Sean Smith

European Graduate School

egs.edu

Brock University

brocku.ca

State and Nomadic Space(Deleuze and Guattari, 1987)

Striated Space

• gridlike; lines serve to

code and channel flows

• points of intersection

allow opportunities for

measurement

• State space: produces

disciplined, docile and

efficient bodies

• optic space

Smooth Space

• non-linear space

• open-ended; intense

• nomadic space

• haptic space

constitution of a particular

space may mutate over time

Striated Space

Smooth Space

Smooth and Striated

Sculpture knows what it lacks.

It wants mobility and consciousness.

Antony Gormley

Man Rock II

1982

Land Sea and Air II

1982

Three Places

1983

Diving Figure

1983

Vent

1984

Home

1984

Chromosome

1984

Field

1985

Standing Ground

1987

Sick

1989

A Case for an Angel II

1990

Flesh

1990

Sovereign State

1990

Field for the British Isles

1993

Angel of the North

1995

Allotment

1995

Allotment II

1996

Rhizome II

1998

Insider IV

1998

Quantum Cloud VIII

1999

Quantum Cloud XV

2000

Bodies at Rest

2000

Foreign Body I

2000

Foreign Body III

2000

Field II

2000

Capacitor

2001

Bodies in Space V

2001

Under My Skin

2002

Domain Field

2003

Feeling Material VI

2003

Distillate II

2003

Domain XLII

2005

Space Station

2007

Becoming-Several

Sculpture Form

orbital-electricalpower grid, CNS

cuboidbuildings, voxels

spheroidcellular, viral

Becoming-Several

Sculpture Form Bomb (Virilio, 2000)

orbital-electricalpower grid, CNS

nuclear

cuboidbuildings, voxels

information

spheroidcellular, viral

genetic

The nuclear bomb is to deterrence

as the information bomb is to control.

Hatch

2007

Clearing IV

2005

Shift V

2006

Bubble Matrix

2007

Blind Light

2007

State action:

The control society.

Nomadic reaction:

The tactile burden of severality.