The goal is to immerse in the somatically poetic conversation between bodies and materials. We observed, sensed, and listened to bodies, materials, and traces (visible and not visible that each improviser left in the space).

Properties of the shared practice space

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• immersion 

• Intimacy

• Immediacy

 

This practice of interdisciplinary and embodied drawing is a unique, sensuous way of multimedia body presence in the process. It involves interaction with material, surfaces, and participants. Here, somatic drawing is a way of listening and becoming ‘other’ through engagement with the materials of the world. 

 

Living Diary, a sharing practice by Erika Tsimbrovsky at A Gathering of Language-based Artistic Research Zentrum Fokus Forschung University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria, influenced this session.

 

Note about inspiration:

During the Convocation 2 sharing practice “Living Open Diary” (a writing experiment), all participants constructed elongating writing tools by connecting twigs with markers and attaching them to their bodies. They created the space of creatures with long writing/drawing limbs who moved and left marks of a/semic writing/drawing in all directions and surfaces, saturating the felt sense of being in totality of extended and embodied writing. The curiosity about this provocation provokes questioning of the distance between streaming thoughts and matters that will be present in the writing/drawing process.