D[inner]rawing

DRN 2019 Conference: Embodied Drawing TRACEYDrawing Research Network Conference 11-12thJuly 2019 Conveners: Drawing Research Group, Loughborough University Workshop & Editor: Anthi Kosma Contributors Kiera o´Toole, https://www.kieraotooleartist.com/ Jane Cook, jane.j.e.cook@lboro.ac.uk Garry Barker, http://garrybarkeronline.com/ Justine Mos. Joanna Leah, J.Leah@leedsbeckett.ac.uk Charlotte Sabine, sabine@sabinekussmaul.com Anthi Kosma, https://www.anthikosma.com/ Daniel

D[inner]rawing Workshop 12th July 2019

Through action and reflection in a “drawing dinner table”, a d[inner]rawing, we experimented the limits of that “inner” body.

The body that it can never be touched in its whole, that expands the borders of its skin, it feels, remembers, dreams, desires and s earches for being together as we-Others.

“From the process”, “from the inside”, “from self toward self” and “from self toward the Others”.

As an “excription” -a movement of exteriorization-.

Where one can “write” and can be “written”, “feel” and be “felt”, “touch” and be “touched”.

In this workshop embodied drawing was approached from its own image.

Looking for the image of the embodied drawing.

Drawing Garry Barker

“I soon began to feel with intensity the joyful adventure of gesturing, of testing, of letting oneself be carried by the hands without trying to control their movements, just spying their vicissitudes.�

Javier SeguĂ­ de la Riva

Αgapē Agape (Ancient Greek ἀγάπη, agapē) is a Greco-Christian term referring to love.

The word agape is used in its plural form (agapai) in the New Testament to describe a meal or feast eaten by early Christians.

The dinner-drawing table

Participants notes of the day

“To begin with, I have to be in exteriority in order to touch myself. And what I touch remains on the outside. I am exposed to myself touching myself. And therefore –but this is the difficult point- the body is always outside, on the outside. It is from the outside. The body is always outside the intimacy of the body itself.”

Jean-Luc Nancy, Corpus (New York: Fordham Univ Press, 2008), 128-129.

“All these traces are closed to this graphic contra-mold which is the union of all of them […] an inner drawing […] the trace that is the trail of the body, its longing and hesitation that not only transmits ideas and projects, but at the more real of the desire of a subject.”

François Jullien, La Gran Imagen no Tiene Forma [The big image has no form]. (Madrid: Alpha Decay, 2008), 349.

Unexpected canvas

unexpected canv

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“Strictly speaking, there are no forms. There are only attitudes, unities formed by multiple encounters of bodies with light and other bodies. These attitudes could also be called surfaces. For surfaces are something entirely different than the combinations of lines; they are the very reality of everything that we perceive and express. […] Dramatic action and plastic surface can be reduced to the same reality: the modification of this large, vibrant surface, excited and modified by a unique force called Life. One should not misunderstand the apparent banality of the word ‘life’… [and see] the resolution of the perennial tension between three terms: ‘body’, ‘life’, and ‘action’. “ Jacques Rancière, Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art (London: Verso, 2013), 163.

“from inside, in the miniaturization, the abysm of the fathomless center opens”.

Javier Seguí de la Riva, “Ser Dibujo”.