Selected paragraphs for Drawing Languages for Dissent 3rd sessionMonday, 4.5.2020, 10:30 – 12:30 THIS MONTH’S TEXT: Ed Krčma, ‘Cinematic Drawing in a Digital Age’, in Tate Papers, no.14, Autumn 2010, accessed 13 April 2020. (All paragraphs below were selected from Yonat Nitzan-Green’s summary of Krčma, 2010). Krčma seeks to conceptualize drawing in its relationship to […]
What a Drawing Language might be
By Amanda Bates Drawing Research Group 2020 I had a think about exactly what a drawing language might be. Some of the following may seem really obvious, but it strikes me that sometimes we make assumptions about what other people might see as obvious. I’ve edited this a little since posting it on WhatsApp. An […]
Drawing response to thoughts of “cinematic”
By Amanda Bates – Drawing Research Group 2020 I was thinking about the term “cinematic”, and it occurred to me (probably as a result of my teenage daughter’s current interest in the Marvel Cinematic Universe) that comic books and graphic novels have a particularly cinematic flavour to them. I tried to use some of the conventions […]
Thought, form, relationship
A week after our 2nd Yonat’s Monthly Mondays – 06.04.20 and many drawings later a drawing finally popped out which I related to Janice Kirkby-Browns summary of Formative Force – “drawing is the form of the thought” thanks Janice. Working through drawing my thoughts of a form: View this post on Instagram A post shared […]
Session 2; Formative Force, Drawing and Thought
Drawing languages for DissentCAS Research Group with Yonat Nitzan-Green Text introduced by Janice Kirkby-Brown:Jean-Luc Nancy, ‘The Pleasure in Drawing’ (2013, p. 14). Fordham University Press. Kindle Edition. Jean-Luc Nancy wrote this book for an exhibition he curated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon in 2007. ‘This book addresses the medium of drawing in […]
The Possibility of Hope – additional Text for research group, Session 2
On Monday 6 April the CAS Research Group ‘drawing languages for dissent’ met on a combination of Zoom & WhatsApp to discuss the texts listed below. Janice Kirkby-Brown provided these texts and led the Research Group session. When sending these texts to the group Janice explained why they were important texts at this stage of […]
a trace of a thread
3:39amconversationalpoetry by me #kbwoodnews a trace of thread a paper petal shrined in powder fired becoming another_ a porcelain other to remain forevermore a reminder for us walking while talking of fragility found in a mother found in nature _ found in the spacebetween as we move through the Sandham stillness after dark in the […]
cyclicality of a line
noticingthe cyclicalityof a line–vertical linesrounds in lineslines of colourtraces of me#reflectionswithinlooking without–#conversationalpoetry@kbwoodnews4 Mar 2020 CAS Research and Drawing GroupMaija on WhatsApp “I was talking to Karen today and Karen said: “We were talking yesterday about straight lines and I was looking at a photo of a big round pillar. There’s no direction in cyclical movement is […]
Drawn Together; Research & Drawing Group, session one
This will be the blog for the new CAS Research Group ‘Drawing Languages for Dissent’ www.chapelartsstudios.co.uk/DrawingGroup2020 CAS research Group ‘Drawing Languages for Dissent’First session (2 March 2020) Notes The following is a compilation of quotes from Tim Ingold (2016) Lines: A Brief History – Introduction; and comments made by the participants during the conversation. Ingold […]
Lines of thought #casresearch
Ready for our first meeting, the CAS Research and Drawing Group have been reading Tim Ingold’s Introduction to ‘Lines; A Brief History’. We have been drawn into a contemplation of lines, dots, traces and surfaces. Ingold says ‘non-linear’ in non-western or other-than-colonial thinking assumes that ‘life is lived authentically on the spot, in places rather […]
How can dissent be a strategy for artists?
The CAS Research Group re-launches for its third year in the form of a ‘drawing and reading’ group: ‘Drawing languages for dissent’ Mar – Aug 2020. CAS Research Group; ‘Drawing languages for dissent’ will be an intimate and informal group, facilitated by your art-research mentor Dr Yonat Nitzan Green. Five monthly sessions, beginning in March, […]
Text for research group, session 1
On Monday 2 March the CAS Research Group ‘drawing languages for dissent’ will meet to discuss the following texts. At our first session we will read the second text and use it as a source for conversation.
The Practice of Research Oct. 2016
This session focused on Fine-art Practice-led PhD research with reference to Donald Schon’s ‘Action research’ and examples from The Laboratory of Dissent, The Winchester Gallery, 2015. ‘Donald Alan Schon (1930-1997) trained as a philosopher, but it was his concern with the development of reflective practice and learning systems within organizations and communities for which he is […]
Notes for conversation: Visual Essay Nov. 2017
Notes written in preparation for ‘Creative meeting’ session (Nov. 2017). I chose John Bresland’s ‘On the Origin of the Video Essay’ (2010). https://blackbird.vcu.edu/v9n1/gallery/ve-bresland_j/ve-origin_print.shtml Blackbird an online journal of literature and the arts, Spring 2010 Vol. 9 No. 1, pp. 1-3. All other quotes in this text are from this article unless otherwise specified. ‘A visual essay […]
Essay definitions
As CAS Associate Artists look forward to a Workshop session on “the Visual Essay” in November I turn my attention to the origins of the visual essay. Our research group mentor Dr Yonat Nitzan Green has shared with us a text by John Bresland on the subject. Below I have extracted a few definitions from […]
