Burgoyne, Greig (2017) SPLACE: performative drawing - co-creating third sites. In: Drawing Conversations 2, 9 December 2017, University of Coventry, UK.
Creators: | Burgoyne, Greig |
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Description/Abstract: | This paper aims to explore the notion of performative drawing less as an arena of witnessing the drawer but more a space for co-creation. Third space is to see the removal of the distancing commonly produced between site, viewer and drawing performance. This presentation takes two contrasting site-specific drawing performances that explore how and what can be garnered when gestures of the body meet ‘gestures’ by/of public space in doing, so it is to propose that performative drawing is with space and audience. The first for a graveyard at Walcott Chapel, Bath, explores the performed gestures of linearity & duration in a drawing balancing-act between contingency and fate. A grave plot is measured and marked out in masking tape on the path to the chapel. When we measure in drawing we contain and perhaps grasp that space or site so to speak in representing it. The 2nd performance Island Workout was conceived for the roof of a public toilet on a seafront. In this work, the automatic gestures are those movements that I’m seeking to follow for as long as I can at their various speeds and durations everything that moves, be it sluggishly following a distant tanker on the horizon; sprinting after cars as they pass; haphazardly chasing gliding gulls or robotically following alongside walkers as they stroll along the seafront. In all cases the drawer never leaves the enclosed, elevated space. This site is an in-between space; buffeted by the sea to which it looks out toward and passed by a constant flux of people and traffic that goes to and fro behind it. Through these two connected, yet contrasting works, Burgoyne will seek to explore what this third space is; expand upon how it came about; propose what kind of unity between audience and drawer results; contest what it this third space may be indicative of, both in terms of temporal space and its implications for drawing. |
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item |
Date: | 9 December 2017 |
Funders: | UCA |
Event Location: | University of Coventry, UK |
Uncontrolled Keywords or tags : | body, contingency, third-space, movement, rhythm, performativity |
Schools: | School of Fine Art & Photography |
Depositing User: |
Mr Greig Burgoyne
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Date Deposited: | 29 Jan 2018 11:37 |
Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2022 08:48 |
URI: | https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/3177 |
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