Today a group of us met up to work through some practical matters. We finalised the design and contents of the brochure, and over the next few days they are being printed by risograph.
We also visited the gallery that will be our home for the 2 days, and discussed our plans.
There is plenty that still needs to be done, but we will get there!
Some thoughts on drafting...
A draft is generally understood as the preliminary outline of an idea - a text or image that by its nature is malleable and subject to change through a series of adjustments.
Where drawing is concerned the term implies developmental phases, including aspects of abstraction in the making of plans, diagrams, signs and notations.
Perhaps, the term can even, by extension, be used to articulate ideas of encoded behaviours; it signals how a sense of emergence hovers around the act and concept of drawing, the potential for gaining access to imagined ideas or extracting directly from actual situations; it suggests multiple ways that through drawing it is possible to create physical evidence of both external and embodied circumstances.
- how the body can be both receptive to and implicated in the sensorial handling of materials, marking time through ritualistic engagement.
- how actions developed as drawings can often be understood as acts of territorialisation, involving issues of duration and the perceptible expenditure of energy
- How the ritualised quality of an artist’s actions might be considered irrelevant as a performative strategy and replaced by methodologies that use wider cultural contexts as material for both drawing and performance.
- How it might be possible to achieve 'not performing' - with all the slippage and inconsistency which that entails.
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