What happens when you make a collaborative drawing?
A conversation between artists Jenny Purrett and Laura Fox, discussing: How does the question of ownership - before, during and after, a drawing is made - impact its outcome? And what is the real value of collaboration on an individual’s art practice? |
Breathe In, Breathe Out Dr. Anthi Kosma, GREECE In her first breath drawing, Jill O'Bryan counted 40,000 breaths (from June 20, 2000, to March 15, 2005). She traced each inhale and exhale with individual graphite marks, each connected to bodily movement and the natural environment, as a way to explore the experience of being, time, and place. What if we close our eyes and use breath practices to measure our [drawing] time? Let’s push the boundaries of drawing in an “out-of-place” and “out-of-time,” non-ocularcentric, embodied, and deeply connected experience. https://imprografika.com/ https://www.anthikosma.com/ https://www.instagram.com/anthoskosmos/ In-person LIVE Streamed Workshop Workshop with local community (University of Thessaly). SHORT VIDEO INTRODUCTION - to follow soon |
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Daily Online Live Workshops
Materials Required: Quiet space, wireless headphones, several sheets of paper, any drawing materials you like working with / holding / touching. For further details: [email protected] |
Unlearning
Ferwa Ibrahim, UAE 7 Drawing Sessions Monday 21st October - Sunday 27th October Session Duration: 40 minutes Drawing helps me nurture my imagination and free association in movement. I have been exploring drawing as a tool for unlearning / freeing the body and mind of ritualistic ties. A body and a drawing by it -entails a body’s movement, rituals and social conditioning. Participants will draw for 30 minutes every day . These structured, drawing meditations are influenced by Authentic Movement, Automatic Drawing and yoga. They also draw upon Carl Gustav Jung’s method of active imagination to invite free association in movement. Through this workshop, we hope to research whether drawing every day can lead to the development of active imagination, impulses, and movements of the body. Additionally, we aim to explore if the development of kinesthetic awareness through drawing can lead to rethinking the movements and rituals previously known to the body. |
Pattern as embodied perception of time
Mehr Javed Using exploratory drawing to engage a slow, contemplative viewing, and to investigate the generative capacity of geometric motifs as metaphors for the Infinitesimal and the Infinite as explored through techniques of repetition, tessellation and seriality. link to portfolio. |
Artist's talk
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Un-Frozen Performative Drawing
Beatriz Albuquerque In this workshop, we will explore performance as drawing and drawing as performance. Instead of a static or frozen drawing, we will engage and develop new ways to feel and experience time, space, movement and the body as essential elements of drawing practice and expression in performative drawing. |
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Drawing Music, Marking time: the structure and impact of music notations
David Griffin A music notation is an almost impossibly complicated bit of drawing. Calling it a map or a diagram does not quite do the trick. It is a mechanism for planning, analysis, annotation, and performance of music. But how do we read that simple two-dimensional geometry and create such complex, four-dimensional performances? |
Entangled Time
by the Phenomenology and Imagination Research Group (PIRG) Jane A Bennett, Belinda Mitchel, Yonat Nitzan-Green The Phenomenology and Imagination Research Group (PIRG) is an independent group of artist-researchers that acts in gaps inside, outside and between institutions, from participating in conferences to performative walks. As part of its methodology of ‘expanded conversation’ PIRG has developed a research method entitled the Table Method (tm) that embodies material thinking within a slowed-time framework. The workshop will follow the process of introduction, slow reading of a short text, text-based conversation, transition time, drawing (in its widest sense) in response to the text, and conversation prompted by the drawings. Sites of Conversation | TRACEY - Drawing and Visualisation Research (lboro.ac.uk) https://blog.soton.ac.uk/wsapgr/phenomenology-and-imagination-research-group/ |
LIVE Workshop
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Fragments of a Method Elke Finkenauer A presentation about ‘Fragments of a Method’ (2020-2023), a durational drawing project that documents the material contents of my studio through fast-drawings and descriptions of 5,279 things. The project follows three guiding rules: 1) let mistakes be visible, 2) make no new purchases, 3) avoid value judgements and quantifiable information. These principles shifted the focus from outcome to process, creating space for improvisation, resourcefulness and unexpected results. The project materialises as 697 pages of drawing in 19 books hand-stitched from recycled paper, 32 pages of miniature colour-fields, and a 50-page list. |
Light Shines Through Sarita Chouhan In darkness, in moments of suffering, we pray and we seek light to shine and remove all the shadows and heal. We walk and walk, feeling the earth beneath our feet, our connection with the earth, the light falling on the soil and the light entering our being. The earth is going through constant change, so are we. The fallen dry leaves were once green leaves on trees. The roads being built will have shiny surfaces, the layers beneath will have stories, and we will move on. |
Artist Talk and Interview
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Drawing & Dreaming
Beatriz Acevedo Online Workshops - Friday, Saturday & Sunday 9am UK When we spend almost half of our lives sleeping, dreams have a life on their own and they can be a potential source of wisdom. Alas, we rarely are able to unlock their power. This series of short workshops aims at connecting us with the power of dreams through drawings. Everyday from Monday to Thursday we will meet in the morning (switching between UK / NY morning time) to unlock our dreaming intelligence. Beatriz will guide us on how to make the best of dreams, with simple techniques for a better night sleeping and tips to remember those elusive streams of unconsciousness. Beatriz draws upon her own practice of dreaming, with some ideas from Jung’s approach to dreaming, and this is part of her ongoing purpose of encouraging people to live a beautiful life. |
Instructions: Drawing+Dreaming Beatriz will be guiding us in these three-day intensive dreaming and drawing workshops aiming at connecting with our dreams and exploring this oracle of the night. During these sessions, participants are invited to share their dreams and improve their sleeping practices. If you want to participate, these are the instructions: 1. Write down the intention you want to get in connection with your dreams. 2. Try to go to bed at a good time, do not bring your mobile to the room, and avoid caffeine three hours before your sleeping time. 3. In the morning. Free-flow writing of your dream. Do not worry about a narrative, whatever you can get from the dream is fine: an image, a feeling, a little scene. Then draw the dream. Again, there is no need to be precious about this, the rougher the drawing the better, pay attention to the visual clues and archetypes. If you want, think about the following elements. Settings: what is the atmosphere, morning, evening, geography, place? Feelings: What were your feelings in the dream (e.g. elation, frustration, fear, pride). Visual clues: What are the visuals, colors, animals, icons? Archetypes: What are the common themes of your dreams (e.g. a house, a car, movement, being prosecuted, horses, water). Beatriz Acevedo Artist and Educator http://beatrizacevedoart.wordpress.com/ |
Gone with the Wind
Angela Hodgson Teall A presentation and mini-workshop about (mainly) mammals from across the world, especially those with attitude! I’m interested in creatures and places that are important to us because of threats such as climate change, conflicts and so on. Beauty and communications between animals will also be explored. |
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The Joy of Autobiographical Comics
Michelle Darlington Online workshop In this workshop I will talk about my own comic 'Desmond', the process behind it, and how it helps me digest and make sense of the world and things that happen in it. I will also show examples of comics which have been made by workshop participants, for the purpose of exploring social problems and enabling multi-stakeholder groups to find common ground in order to tackle them collaboratively. I will then walk you through a simple and easy group process I have devised, which allows people of any ability level to create a simple comic that can spark human connections. This will be a process you can use with groups of adults or children. This workshop builds on and updates the online workshops I delivered at TTD 2021 & 2023 |
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