Dear all,
With apologies for cross-posting, Please find below a call for papers for the RAI/British Museum/SOAS conference on Art, Materiality & Representation. The deadline for proposals is January 8th 2018, and the conference takes place in June 2018.
Drawings Of, Drawings By, and Drawings With...
Inscribing marks into surfaces remains a relevant form of creative practice in this digital age. Drawings and other inscriptive practices are, however, often dismissed in a variety of ways: relegated to the status of images or objects of study rather than representing an understanding of the world in their own right. The status of drawing and other inscriptive practices in producing alternative forms of understanding remains contested, even in supposedly friendly disciplines such as architecture.
This renewed focus on creative practices within anthropology offers an alternative to art-historical modes of inquiry which, whilst important and useful, do not tell us everything about a drawing, notation, diagram or map, often neglecting the very making of the thing.
This panel is proposed in order to investigate a range of aspects of drawing. More broadly considered as inscriptive practices including diagrams, notations, and other forms of mark-making, drawing remains a crucial component of a number of creative practices from architecture through to fine art. The panels invite accounts from both practitioners and anthropologists, particularly when the practitioners are anthropologists.
It is envisaged that the panel will consist of three sessions:
(1) Drawings Of;
(2) Drawings By; and
(3) Drawings With.
Part 1 will focus on drawings made by the contributors, discussing what they are drawings of: be that their own bodily capacity, studies of material culture, movements or costumes; Part 2 discusses methods and approaches towards the drawings made by others, and how to better understand them. Finally, Part 3 involves the practice of making drawings: live demonstrations and practical workshops.
https://nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6059 <https://nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6059>
Kindest regards,
Ray Lucas
Dr Raymond Lucas
Head of Architecture
University of Manchester
Manchester School of Architecture (MSA)
Manchester Urban Institute (MUI)
Manchester Architecture Research Group (MARg)
Room 1.22, Humanities Bridgeford Street
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“Threshold and temporality in architecture: practices of movement in Japanese architecture” in Bunn, S. (Ed.). Anthropology and Beauty: From Aesthetics to Creativity. Routledge, 2017.
“The Discipline of Tracing in Architectural Drawing” in Johannessen, C. M. (Ed.). The Materiality of Writing: a Trace-Making Perspective. Routledge, 2017.
Research Methods for Architecture, Laurence King, 2016.
http://www.laurenceking.com/en/category/architecture/research-methods-for-architecture-1
"Drawing as Gesture” in Allan, L., Caspar Pearson, L., Sheil, B. & Migayrou, F. (Eds.). Drawing Futures, UCL Press, 2016. [open access PDF] https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/drawing-futures
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