Drawing as elsewhere
Burgoyne, Greig (2017) Drawing as elsewhere. In: Drawing matters, 8 July 2017, York St John University, UK. (Submitted)
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To draw maybe to be human but what is to be human in the post Internet era? and what does it tell us about the role of space and drawing’s credentials now?
This is to present a performative paper that challenges the boundary of conference. As such this will put into action a displacement of site and audience in its delivery to expand a simultaneous discursive element.
This will be to discuss De Certeau’s call for the elsewhere, while walking out a roll of carpet tape as a means to both emphasise & contest the space.
The elsewhere is site or situation of potential and difference lost through the rapid imposition of homogeneity. In doing so, is to propose that drawing now is that vital means to celebrate and extend that unpredictability, vitality and becoming if we are to reclaim an elsewhere.
This will be to reflect on key strands of spatial practice referencing my drawing practice; the importance of play alongside the value of risk as an extension of site specificity while in the midst of emphasising that site. This is to discuss drawings means to comprehend and shift beyond a condition of stasis as place to an immersive site of the relational, embracing transition and flux.
This presentation aims to demonstrate that only through drawings’ accelerated engagement within the imposed ‘stations within a vast network’ (Bourriaud 20:2016) that we have become, can we potentially surface and as such evolve rather than displace that otherness.
This is to examine the tension and limits of site & bodily gestures of a rule based, process led practice; highlighting how this may unite the severed links of late between our thinking and actions. By emphasising and contesting those limits of site in the act of drawing, play and risk we might remove those veils reality imposes.
In doing so suggest a drawing practice as one of bodily gestures that reconfigures produced space meets processed gestures that imposes space; drawing as gestures of inclusion and periphery as opposed to one indicative of spatial centring and a politics of exclusion. This is drawing shifting from reality of surface to be replaced by its previously submerged undercurrent- an emerging flow of vitality, liberation and inchoate energy as we encounter the elsewhere. As a rule based process led presentation its duration and direction will be determined as such by the length and sporadic re-orientating of space in conjunction with the tape walked ‘out’
1 Bourriaud. Nicholas. The Exform Verso Futures 2016
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