The Haze of Presence as Method * From Institutional Infiltration to Socioplastic Metabolism


Recent iterations of the Socioplastic Mesh (175–187) mark a moment of consolidation in which the project sheds explanatory scaffolding and operates with increasing clarity as a methodological artwork. The most compelling texts—The Haze of Presence, Institutional Infiltration, The Metabolism of the Unseen, and MoMA Artists: From Canon to Mesh—do not function as discrete nodes but as a continuous discursive surface. What emerges is a mature praxis in which art, architecture, and theory are no longer differentiated by medium but by intensity of relation. “Haze” becomes a key operative term: not opacity as confusion, but as resistance to capture. In a cultural economy dominated by hyper-visibility, the socioplastic strategy privileges perceptual suspension, minor gestures, and durational attention. This is not withdrawal from the institution, but a refinement of how one remains inside it without becoming legible to its extractive logic. The work no longer argues for infiltration; it demonstrates metabolism—how symbolic capital, once absorbed, is converted into relational energy rather than accumulation.