Performative Drawing Series
In the Performative Drawing series, each drawing is an improvised performance whose duration is complete when my gestures meet physical exhaustion (around 2-3 minutes). The full body is engaged, but my eyes are blindfold, so that I am disassociated from any visual control over the drawing process. The final drawing brings together: the mark making implement and the way it is held; the paper surface and location in the performance space; my psychological response to the moment. This approach to drawing is part of an ongoing exploration into the relationship between the visual and the auditory, with particular reference to music performance: its visual form or written music notation, the performance of music as improvisation and the physical and psychological moment of performance experience by the soloist on the concert platform.
graphite, paper
60x42cm
Drawing as musical graphic scoreA graphic musical score is made from a mono print, randomly cut up and assembled into the form of a concertina book, to lead a performance from left to right, start to finish. The act of giving the graphic score to the performer brought about the possibility of sound, and at this point the score was complete.concertina book,
monoprint
on paper
8x8cm