From Landscape to Relationscape

Abstract

The refrain (Deleuze and Guattari 2008) is seen here as the return of a behavioral phrase to personal experience. We assume two possibilities for return: from strong memories (Traverso 2012) to self-image and landscape conceptualization (Simmel 2011); and proprioception and weak memories of presence in space — within the framework of a production of presence (Gumbrecht 2012). We associate the former with an abstract relationship of the subject with his self-image in conformity with a social norm, and the latter with the relationship of the subject with his experience of space, built by the integration of experience and memory, reporting this second to relationscapes (Manning 2009). We will compare experience of place with experience in space — and its duration (Bergson 1988) — and advance the idea of space as a laboratory of experience (McCormack 2010) and look at the action of traversing, in Untitled (Orchestral) by João Onofre, The Legible City by Jeffrey Shaw, and Tomba Brion by Guido Guidi, and the way the classical perspective — as the foundation of the technical image of Dubois (2004) and Flusser (1998) — opposes aforementioned relationality and rationality.