The one who was standing apart from me
Burgoyne, Greig (2018) The one who was standing apart from me. [Drawing, Exhibition/show, Installation, Performance, Site-specific work]
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Jean Luc-Nancy notes in his text titled The pleasure in drawing, that drawing has an 'ability to effect and be effected (by the) force from the outside or more precisely the force of sharing and opening, between an inside and outside which refer to one another”. Wrestling with this context, contemporary artists Greig Burgoyne and Kiera O'Toole propose dynamic drawing performances that engage the notion of the phenomenological of site, as a reorienting dialogue with bodily space and drawings sense of endless becoming. The result is to present a drawing performance by O’Toole and Burgoyne that begins as performing space while resulting in a residual sense of place. Albeit, akin to a game where territory is stated, evaded, expanded and contracted, with little sense of victory possible.
Through two striking and contrasting practices, Burgoyne and O'Toole share a rich immersion and teasing of how we constitute place, bringing the absurd alongside the experience of time, as they evolve a further third space akin to host and ghost; Both Burgoyne and O'Toole’s practice and research contribute a series of dialogic responses that embrace drawing in its widest sense, from the performative to the trace element. From the traditional to the ubiquitous, the role of materials play a key factor in that dialogue. For Burgoyne, this is to source it from the locality in an act of contingency, where an absurd logic will flourish as materials, repetition, and endurance meet with site and bring about a newly configured sense of space. For O’Toole, the changing and temporal of site is a starting point to embrace the aesthetic potential and the experience that results.
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