Embodied Drawing: TRACEY Drawing Research Network Conf (Jul 2019, Loughborough, UK)

Dates: 18-19th July 2019
Location: Loughborough University, UK
Contact: Tina Harvey
Deadline for submission of proposals: 1 February 2019

The conference aims to explore the notion of embodied drawing. By embodied drawing we suggest that �embodied� could be synonymous with the act of drawing, that drawing is an act of embodiment. As such, the making of a mark expands to become an act of mediation. Yet if all bodies are mediat(ing)ed, they too mark the skins and surfaces of other bodies in the briefest immediacies � in traces of gesture, events, at and through the borderline. A curious folding of/with materiality � a drawing. And as drawing expands there come lines of flight and queer becomings: of further technological mediations, prostheses, computer augmented realities, boundary-making practices that offer up new forms of embodiment, of bodies yet to be named, without outline. And so we ask; what does it mean to have a body? What can they do? What can be drawn?

The conference aims to provide a space for discussion, dissemination and the exchange of knowledge and suggests the following as starting points in the discussion, as possible themes, as prompts and as provocations:

�       How can a body situate sensation through/in drawing?
�       How can drawing be expanded to explore sound, movement, duration, and wider fields?
�       How can subjectivity and personal social/ethical commitment be produced through body-mediated drawing acts?
�       How can gender be enacted through the material-semiotic practices of drawing?
�       Can a computer be embodied/does an algorithm possess a body/ is it a prosthesis?

The conveners would like to invite proposals for either a 20-minute presentation or a two-hour workshop from practitioners, theorists and practitioner-researchers, which aim to generate debate around the concept of embodied drawing. Please email your proposals to Tina Harvey T.Harvey@lboro.ac.uk including DRN 2019 Conference Abstract in the subject line.

Deadline: Friday 1st February 2019

Please include the following information:

Author(s)
Institutional Affiliation (if appropriate)
50-word biography
250-word proposal

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