Dialogues on Performance III:
Draw to Perform
2-4pm, 3rd July 2014,
Room C202, Central Saint Martins, Granary Square, Kings Cross, London N1C 4AA
This event is free. To book a
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There will be presentations by Kimbal
Quist Bumstead, Foá + Hosea, Carali McCall, Ram Samocha
Background
In December 2013 arebyte Gallery and performance s p a c e held 'Draw to
Perform', the first international symposium on the connection between
performance art and drawing and the relevance of drawing as a modern medium,
curated by artist Ram Samocha.
Central Saint Martins will host presentations of documentation from this
event as well as discussion. Like the original symposium, this event aims to
promote the growing stream of live drawing performance, to distinguish it as a
unique entity and allow it to rise from the eclectic, wider definition of
performance art.
Artists’ work will be presented that is fundamentally concerned with
drawing, in that drawing connects elements of line, movement, space and time
and physicality, as mark-making is the result of gesture and body movement. For
some, drawing is rather conceived as installation, video, performance,
painting, writing and animation. Many of the participating artists are
interested in exploring the idea of trace as memory and in connection to
temporality. Others focus on the physical and sensorial experience of drawing,
either in relation to human body proportions or to physical exercise.