by Amanda Bates (for CAS Research Group; Drawing Languages for Dissent, August 2020) This is a song by the British rock band Skunk Ansansie. It was the first song on their debut album, released in 1996. As such, it was evidently intended as a statement: Yes it’s fucking politicalEverything’s politicalYes it’s fucking satiricalEverything’s satirical Do […]
Dissent Origins?
From Puritanism to Dissent 1660 – 1700 by Anne Hitchcock for CAS Research Group 2020; Drawing Languages for Dissent I have struggled with the term ‘dissent’. It has felt to me that it connotes so much more than just disagreement. In researching the word I found the following passage by John Spurr: What happened to English […]
Amanda Bates on different forms of carbon in art and science
CAS Research and Drawing Group 2020; Drawing languages for Dissent Session 5; reading Miriam Cahn I was thinking about Cahn’s softer lines and the indeterminate gender of some of her figures. I tried to draw a figure that was neither male nor female and I used (blue) soluble graphite* and splashed it with water and […]
Peripheral thinking workshop in pictures; don’t defend the centre
CAS Research Group; Drawing Languages for DissentMonday 1 June 2020 Live Session Notes: Mathematics and circles – WJ “There is value in the ramble” ML “Are we aware of the moments of resisting coherency?” YNG “A clear idea of what I’m doing makes me get stuck” YNG ML intention – notice how the two aspects […]
References to dissent and language in a redraw of folklore
To: CAS Research Group chat, Drawing languages for Dissent [09:48, 6/13/2020] Amanda Bates writes: Interesting (?) snippet from a novel: “Baba Yaga is a ‘dissident‘, beyond the pale, isolated, a spinster, an old fright, a loser. She has never married, and, apparently has no friends. If she ever had any lovers, their names are not […]
Session five; preparation for discussion
Drawing Languages for Dissent. CAS Research Group, July 2020 Artist Miriam Cahn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-GkCS3Z8mMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU6XPqUKCvAhttps://frieze.com/article/miriam-cahn Badischer Kunstverein writes about Miriam Cahn. The artist creates ‘transitions rather than borders; diffusion rather than difference.’ More information about Cahn.Link to Cahn’s exhibition I As Human at Museum of the Vistula, Warsaw 29.11.2019 – 01.03.2020 Artist Miriam Cahn said: “When I […]
Lines, Strings and Knots
CAS Research Group; Drawing Languages for Dissent 5/6/2020, Will Jackson Whilst I’m “here” I’ll post a few notes I made after the first session at The Lights, but was distracted by a spell of good gardening weather: Ingold writes: “A thread is a filament of some kind, that may be entangled with other threads, or […]
Session 4; Places, Reflection and diffraction, Dissenting
Yonat Nitzan-Green5.6.2020 Here are brief thoughts about places; reflection and diffraction; and dissenting, following CAS research group session four (Drawing languages for Dissent, June 2020) Places The group’s first session took place at The Lights (Andover) at the beginning of March, but due to COVID 19 the other three sessions took place via zoom. This […]
“Don’t Defend the Centre”; preparation for discussion
Drawing Languages for Dissent, session four, 4th June 2020 William Kentridge on ‘Peripheral Thinking’ A Richie Lecture for Yale University Art Gallery, 13 November 2015Available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79FuROwzRvs What happens at the edges? Kentridge opens his lecture with the question “what happens at the edges?” and then starts talking about mangos. “I am aware this is of […]
“I don’t really do dissent” (unless it’s personal)
A conversation between members of the CAS Research GroupDrawing Languages for Dissent. Dissent. I’ve been thinking about this a lot, and one of the many inconclusive conclusions I’ve come to is that, in art as in life: No, I don’t really do dissent… [10:16, 5/22/2020] Maija: Love this. Elaborate. Please? Amanda Bates : I’m not […]
CAS Research Group; Methodologies, Methods, Research Question and a bibliography
CAS Research Group 2020; Drawing Languages for Dissentwith Yonat Nitzan-Green Methods Regular monthly reading contributes to building knowledge about contemporary drawing. Conversations add to review and the understanding of current thought about drawing and dissent. In addition, they contribute to finding connections between contemporary drawing theories; dissent; and participants’ practices. Writing (summaries, notes, reflection) helps […]
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 […]
A 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 […]
Session 3; Reading ‘Cinematic Drawing in a Digital Age’ (DISCUSSION REPLAY)
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 […]
Rainbows
Janice says, Hi everyone. Yesterday I put up a rainbow in support of the NHS and all carers. We stood by it to clap for our key workers. This morning my friend was told this ‘graffiti’ has to be washed off!! Update, 23 April: Have been told the Rainbow CAN STAY!! So am going to […]
