{"title":"Drawing movement before architecture: Theatricality of the objectively vague","authors":"I. Wingham","doi":"10.1386/drtp_00106_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00106_1","url":null,"abstract":"As both an architect and a drawing practitioner, I work at the intersection of the real and the construction of reality, where the theatricality of the acts between the unthought, the unsaid, and the unseen or unfathomed move towards learning the how to of embodiment. We can never be certain, but only objectively vague, as to how the drawing process happens in space and time, and, in my case, how it will enact and embody movement before architecture. Drawing from examples of modernist, experimental art practices, which embodied movement into drawing by employing indeterminate strategies – for example, László Moholy-Nagy and Marcel Duchamp – I introduce movement as an instrument of preparation, arrangement, transformation and simulation. Starting from what is made, drawn or borrowed transforms carefully prepared scenes into an unexpected reality in which the author makes all possible preparations but cannot fully control the outcome.","PeriodicalId":36057,"journal":{"name":"Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90625618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"walking the line / out of the line / lining up / outline","authors":"A. Ionascu","doi":"10.1386/drtp_00101_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00101_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36057,"journal":{"name":"Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74081463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When drawing speaks: The dialogic traces of a continuous line","authors":"Steve Fossey","doi":"10.1386/drtp_00094_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00094_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on my video Drawing Breath and Remaining Visible, an artwork featured in the exhibition ‘Drawn to time’. Drawing Breath and Remaining Visible was made as attempt to create a continuous line drawing using video. The aim of my analysis is to explore how Drawing Breath and Remaining Visible can be read as dialogic, and how the ‘complex interplay of cognitive, somatic, and material conventions’ (Lovatt 2021: 10) that converge in this drawing can provide insights into the dialogic dynamics of this artwork and drawing more broadly. Drawing, claims art Historian Anna Lovatt, ‘is fundamentally relational and deceptively complex’ (2021: 10); it is the complexity and fundamental relationality that I seek to explore through my analysis of this drawing in relation to those of other artists, including Cy Twombly, Richard Long and Lygia Clark. Theorist Roland Barthes’ writing on Twombly supports an exploration on how bodies, surfaces and marks interact to create drawings; and art historian Cornelia Butler’s discussion of how ‘idea-space’, as realized by Clark, is used alongside Barthes’ formulations. In essence, this paper seeks to convey a sense of moving inside and outside drawing in a dialogic process that entangles intentions, marks, mediums and reflective analysis.","PeriodicalId":36057,"journal":{"name":"Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75942087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital drawing as a mediating device between artistic and intellectual practice","authors":"K. Andjelkovic","doi":"10.1386/drtp_00093_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00093_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36057,"journal":{"name":"Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74932551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Three Turns: A dialogue across disciplines","authors":"Lisa Munnelly","doi":"10.1386/drtp_00097_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00097_1","url":null,"abstract":"On 21 February 2021 at 9.00 p.m., the performance Three Turns was featured as part of a curated series of works in The Performance Arcade (PA2021), a festival that brought together live art, music and performance on Wellington’s Waterfront. In a shipping container transformed into a temporary stage, three artists: a drawer, a dancer and a musician, celebrated the immediacy of their mediums. In an hour-long performance, a dialogue across disciplines was formed, a dialogue that evolved intuitively. Over three turns, each artist took the lead, with a note, a mark and a gesture offered up as provocation – forms, actions, colours and chords followed. The sonic surface, the stage and the page merged into a single space in which the artists explored velocity, rhythm and repetition. This encounter created a place where gravity and levity pushed and pulled, space was devoured and patterns emerged, accumulated and dissipated. The collaborative performance of Three Turns allowed three artists to form a dialogue across disciplines and ask: what new knowledge can emerge from a conversation between drawing, dance and music? This report, written in the first person from the drawer’s perspective, with contributions from The Dancer/Sacha Copland and The Musician/Simon Eastwood, reflects upon the event and posits that whilst on an individual level the performance produced new drawings, new sounds and new movements that individually had value, it was the relation between the three artists and their mediums, that emerged to be the most significant aspect of the work.","PeriodicalId":36057,"journal":{"name":"Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79158641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The partly present mother","authors":"Lucy O’Donnell","doi":"10.1386/drtp_00089_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00089_1","url":null,"abstract":"This paper makes critical reflections on a performance titled The Partly Present Mother, which traced acts of nurturing and loss at the Kosar Contemporary Gallery, Bristol, in 2019. The research reflects upon the silence of pregnancy without birth or ‘miscarriage’ as a Matrixial space, where the union of both mother and other are in flux. This changeableness or uncertainty embedded within the maternal is critiqued by making parallels between the becomings of drawing and mothering by positioning them both as verbs or acts. Derrida’s Memoirs of the Blind and the Greek myth of Pliny’s shadow are used to consider loss as interwoven within drawing practice, where the corporeality of drawings practices wavers amidst discovery and loss. The project takes these experiences of loss answering Cixous et al.’s call to ‘write the body’, performing them through touch and repositioning textuality as live and physical. The parallels of becoming imbedded in the acts of drawing and mothering look to Elena notional of the maternal as a verb and the process of becoming subjectivity as embedded within drawing (; ; ; )to reclaim the flux of the maternal notwithstanding pregnancy without birth.","PeriodicalId":36057,"journal":{"name":"Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75239651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Observational Drawing for Students with Dyslexia, Qona Rankin and Howard Riley (2021)","authors":"P. Thomas","doi":"10.1386/drtp_00099_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00099_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Observational Drawing for Students with Dyslexia, Qona Rankin and Howard Riley (2021)\u0000 London and Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 93 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-1-78775-142-2, p/bk, £16.99","PeriodicalId":36057,"journal":{"name":"Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74538407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The emergent loop of interdisciplinary exchange","authors":"Kellie O’Dempsey","doi":"10.1386/drtp_00096_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00096_1","url":null,"abstract":"This exegetical analysis of performance drawing highlights its character as an interdisciplinary process. Specifically, I demonstrate that the interrelation of drawing and performance, that occurs in the active, live-audience drawing processes, is a unique interdisciplinary exchange. This analysis utilizes the concept of ‘intra-action’, as defined by Karen Barad, to reveal the multidirectional and emergent processes of the interdisciplinary exchange exhibited through drawing as performance. Furthermore, this interdisciplinary exchange is likened to a Möbius loop. Exploring ‘intra-action’ and the Möbius loop analogy, I examine the interdisciplinary drawing process through the cooperative performance drawing work initiated by myself, Kellie O’Dempsey (Australia) and Jennifer Wroblewski (United States): Resistance Movement (2017–18). This work exemplifies the interdisciplinary process of performance drawing as the initiator for creative exchange. To examine this proposition, I isolate the components of drawing, performance and the spatio-temporal, and analyse how these components operate through Resistance Movement. While Barad’s theory of intra-action relates to the entanglement of matter in the universe, I use the theory to explore the entangled aspects of performance drawing that create a single, unified experience for both artists and viewers. The three elements – drawing, performance and the spatio-temporal – combine, resulting in intra-action. Thus, creating a unique, interdisciplinary event.","PeriodicalId":36057,"journal":{"name":"Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76130887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Blubilds – drawing diagrammatic stains","authors":"Joanna Leah","doi":"10.1386/drtp_00095_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00095_1","url":null,"abstract":"This project adopts the concept of a dance diagram such as Andy Warhol’s Fox Trot (1962) introduced by Rosalind Krauss in her writing on the relationship of material forces in a diagrammatic structure to create a model of notation with actions and objects derived from Edgelands. Coined by Marion Shoard, Edgelands are post-industrial cityscapes, a typology of abandon, dereliction and decay. Shoard notes these sites are characterized by creative cultural practices of photography and graffiti; urban explorers, parkour. My Blubilds project aimed to challenge these cultural practices of parkour and graffiti to provoke new engagement in those sites. To this end, I apply the concept of Rosalind Krauss’s resistant diagram and gravity I adapted from Formless: A User’s Guide (). Gravity is a force of undoing to remake spaces – and I draw with my body and equipment to facilitate gravity within a dance diagram to create a new space. This contrasts the cultural practices such as Graffiti and parkour and breaks with those existing activities to tag, mark and leave a new trace in Edgelands. Blubilds draw a live embodied diagram, based on the movement patterns found in Edgeland sites, since ‘action’ is to draw a line with the body. Tim Ingold’s approach to drawing informs my perspective that lines of movement that draw (in) place engage with the lived narratives of those places. Ingold suggests that the narratives that make place are created by entangled lines created by movement; furthermore, to ‘draw out’ – as in Douglas phrase – suggests that drawing in place ‘draws-out’ new spaces. Blue is emblematic as a nod to Krauss’s ‘rude noise, the blueprint and the acts of Graffiti’, it becomes Blubilds – a dynamic diagrammatic stain.","PeriodicalId":36057,"journal":{"name":"Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74241460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Value of Drawing Instructions in the Visual Arts and Across Curricula: Historical and philosophical arguments for drawing in the digital age, Seymour Simmons (2021)","authors":"R. Chabrier","doi":"10.1386/drtp_00098_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00098_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: The Value of Drawing Instructions in the Visual Arts and Across Curricula: Historical and philosophical arguments for drawing in the digital age, Seymour Simmons (2021)\u0000 New York and London: Routledge, 396 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-1-13847-997-5, h/bk, £96\u0000 ISBN 978-1-35106-418-7, e-book, £30","PeriodicalId":36057,"journal":{"name":"Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79994201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}