Title:
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'Choreography of drawing- the consciousness of the body in the space of a drawing'
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The research considered the participatory dimension of collaborative drawing
as an act taking place in three and four-dimensional space and relating to the
two-dimensional resolution of a drawing. The drawing activity, therefore,
consciously explores the dynamic interrelationship between participants the
choreographic dessinateur (the researcher) and others in site specific
situations which result in surface action on both the vertical and horizontal
plane of a drawing.
There are two major considerations; the concrete and direct observable
behaviours of the participants and the resulting graphic marks of the drawing
left as a trace of that activity. These are seen as the facts of the body and the
drawing. That is, that tangible dimension which looks at the movement of the
body in relation to all that it may physically come into contact with and its
'arrival' as 'vectorial force' on a material surface as a 'scored' and 'recorded'
reflection of that activity, What the researcher is looking at therefore, takes
account of this as the initial infrastructure from where other possibilities
collide.
The researcher is also attempting to locate an underlying significance to the
first physical observations which may have a correlation to other phenomena
within the same time/space situation, namely, the invisible and interpretative
dimension. The attempt therefore, is to explore the relationship of subject
and the 'world' (in this case the space of a performative and collaborative
drawing), as an ontologically reciprocal act, embracing the self as we know
we are with its orientation to the other. Merleau-Ponty (1964: p. 55) has
referred to this as the primary source of expression in his essay 'Indirect
Language'; that area where the embodied self is slightly out of focus, but
situated where it may collide with new possibilities. The embodied self
therefore, is seen as focusing on things as the relation between the subject
and object of experience, from the personal to the collective, from the
particular to the general. Hence, the collaborative nature of this project
searches for new images and methods through and as a move away from
the common habitual behaviours of drawing and into the realm of the
unknown. It is a conscious engagement with pre-reflective sensory, motor
and affective capabilities, 'primary expression' on the one hand and
'secondary expression', the more routine behaviours both operating within a
specified and unified whole. This is a 'dialogical method' which accepts what
is there, while also endeavouring to change or extend through added and
invented dimensions.
The whole process of drawing and reflection for the project embraces
ambition and intentions for developmental outcomes which might enhance
comprehension, performance and communication skills in and about
drawing. A dimension which relies upon observation, insight, reflection and
interpretation from a multitude of viewpoints
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