Drawing Together, Slowly (Summer 2021)
Bruno Latour has coupled drawing and thinking as not only an embodied experience but gives credence to its ability to enhance comprehension and trigger imagination. Others have argued for drawing’s capacity to stimulate synthetic feedback between the haptic and the cognitive perception; as well as our ability to understand the world. Including research and experiments in the fields of the fine arts (Alpers 1983), architecture (Frascari 2011) and psychology (Arnheim 1974).
This understanding of the potent nature of drawing and its positive effects underpins the starting point of this elective. There is, however, one question that remains unanswered. In exploring the synergetic and mutable potential that drawing creates, this elective is interested in what goes beyond the individual, and toward its impact on the collective. If drawing can arouse a productive symbiosis between the mind and the body within an individual, what happens when many individuals draw together?
What, if any visual, cognitive, and social interaction will this togetherness ignite?
How about when the action of drawing is expanded to involve two, five, ten, or even twenty collaborators? What kind of visual, cognitive, and social interaction will this action-led togetherness ignite? Furthermore, What if the subject matter of the drawing; or the medium through which it is being drawn on; the duration of the drawing; the place where the drawing is drawn; or the rules and methods through which the drawings are made? How about if the people involved are strangers as opposed to acquaintances?
Let’s find out!
Students:
CHAN, Nok Yue; CHAN, Lincoln; CHAU, Tin Yuet; CHEUNG, Hoi Lan; CHEUNG, Ming Chung; CHENG, Sien Yi;CHEUNG, Yi; FONG, Lai Sum; LEUNG, Truman; LEE, Ho Nam; LEUNG, Lok Yiu Vonnie; LEUNG, Hiu Sun; LI, Alex Kelvin; LIN, Charmaine; MAN, Ting Fung; SO, Wing Yi; YEUNG, Tin Ho Michael; WAI, Prudence; XIONG, Chuyu; + Friends