Online studio visits to artists that relate to performative drawing.

DTP Online - Monika Weiss - Studio Visit
Sun, 30 May 2021, 20:00 – 21:30 BST, London Time

In this upcoming meeting, Polish-American artist Monika Weiss will be talking about her past work, her multidisciplinary practice (video, film, performance, sound, drawing and sculpture) and about her latest project the Nirbhaya memorial and related drawing and sound composition series, collectively titled Dafne and Metamorphosis.

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DTP Online is a program by Draw to Perform which includes 1.5 hours studio visit to artists that relate to drawing, performative drawing, and live art. These online events are giving the audience an opportunity to get a closer look at the work of key artists in the genre. They also give the audience a chance to observe the artist's creative process and their choice of materials and techniques as the work progresses.

At the beginning of each meeting, the visiting artist gives a live 10-minute performance or presentation in their own private workplace. The focus lies not only on performance art, but also on those who use drawing as their main medium of work.

The program was created with the setbacks of the continued pandemic and lockdown in mind, and it gives us a chance to connect more in a time of separation and collectively brainstorm ideas on drawing, art and performing, as the audience are invited to ask the artists direct questions.

A link and password for the Zoom meeting will be sent by email, close to the date of the scheduled meeting.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dtp-online-monika-weiss-studio-visit-tickets-153505102895
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In a multidisciplinary practice that encompasses video, film, performance, sound, drawing and sculpture, the Polish-American artist Monika Weiss moves between the political and the poetic to explore questions of the body, history, and gendered violence. Her work is intimately engaged with processes of witnessing and remembering as it attends to traumatic histories, their transmission, and commemoration. Weiss frequently employs her own body to navigate the aftermath of different traumas, raising questions of how one can articulate these without enacting further violence. The female body does not only become a vehicle of expression, but also forms a key site from which an affective politics may emerge, through touch, vulnerability, and the visceral. Her mixed-media, embodied practice foregrounds sensing as a modality through which we can develop an ethics and politics of remembrance and of being together in the world, simultaneously challenging modernist assumptions concerning a duality of mind and body. By frequently attending to events and histories that she has not personally witnessed, Weiss fleshes out the multidirectional character of memory and seeks to forge new solidarities that exceed national boundaries.

Born in Warsaw, Poland, Monika Weiss arrived to NYC in 2001 as a long-term artist in residence at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. Since 2011, she divides her time between her studio in New York and her appointment as associate professor at Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis. She has been awarded numerous grants and residency fellowships, including BRIC, Harvestworks, US Embassy in Poland, New York Foundation for the Arts and YADDO. Recent publications about the artist’s work include a chapter in Guy Brett’s The Crossing of Innumerable Paths: Essays on Art (London: Ridinghouse, 2019) and a forthcoming bi-lingual monograph Monika Weiss – Nirbhaya published by the Centre for Polish Sculpture in Orońsko / National Institution of Culture, with texts by Griselda Pollock (Leeds University) and Mark McDonald (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), among others.

https://www.monikaweiss.net
https://vimeo.com/monikaweiss

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More about Nirbhaya memorial:
https://vimeo.com/514825755

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Artists on Artworks: Monika Weiss:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNEU6jhk0zU

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