ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the complexities and nuances of the inclusive way of thinking artwork in process. It discusses recent interventions in art theory and cultural, geographical and performance debates. The chapter is organized three related themes. First, Peter Lanyon's work is taken to develop a discussion concerning the liveliness of the wider art process and includes theory on 'working hot' and the expressivity of gesture and emotion. The discussion engages critical commentary on the wider working practices of encounter and performativity of several artists. The second section works with the performative character of artwork-in-the-making, flows of belonging, disorientation and becoming. The third section pursues the non-representational-representation double bind that distances and detaches, rather than relates art and everyday life. The chapter considers the fleshy, imaginative and felt emotional character of the process of art, its multiple and tense contingent flows. It discusses flirting with space in art and in living generally to the contested notion of landscape.
