Unlearning to Draw Through Performance; A Willed Nakedness, and Henceforth, the Unknown...
Unlearning to Draw Through Performance; A Willed Nakedness, and Henceforth, the Unknown...

Summary/Abstract: The following writing intends to reflect the approach of Drawing to Performance, in order to rescue, from its contingencies, some form of freedom. This possibility is analysed here, both for artistic practice, and within the sphere of artistic education. The study does not aim to find didactics, methodologies, or solutions, but rather to decode the possibility of finding spaces to unlearn, or to voluntarily undress ourselves from the experience of our knowledge, where we take nothing for granted. With a look at different technologies, and different ways of connecting to the performance floor, the investigation proposes, as a starting point, some performances and installations made by several artists in the recent past, where the body was protagonist or agent of movement, and where drawing is inscribed as a graphical possibility. Considering that the Drawing contains within itself a gesture or gestures and that can establish a form of potency, often evasive, it’s in my interest to clarify this potency, inside and outside the limits that constrain it. The following study leaves open the possibilities of drawing in a performance environment, in a device made for movement mapping, to which I am intimate, starting from the reading of its technical possibilities.

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