Drawing In-between Worlds. Figuring Contingency
Lecturer
Date
- 17 October 2024– Porto, Portugal (University of Porto )
Description
16, 17 & 18 OCTOBER 2024 DRAWING ACROSS x ALONG x BETWEEN UNIVERSITY BORDERS This conference hosted by the Univertsity of Porto focuses on drawing-based collaborations between art, science and society to tackle artistic, educational and societal challenges. Triggered by the debates surrounding the epistemological impact of drawing activities in science, a shift of focus has also occurred. In the hybrid knowing spaces opened by art-science collaborations, drawing activities are not restricted to visualising, modelling, or understanding. They are a form of agency whose goal is to connect, act and care, a way of staying with the trouble, as Donna Haraway would put it. By addressing drawing as an agency, we consider the links between who is drawing and what is being drawn as part of both the artistic and scientific research process; we focus on how objects and subjects are constituted in their mutual interactions through drawing in order to transform ways of knowing, sensing, feeling and acting in the world. On October 17, in his keynote lecture "Drawing In-between Worlds. Figuring Contingency", Nikolaus Gansterer will provide insights into his current artistic research projects and his practice of situative notation. He explores the fundamental question of how processes of perceiving and thinking can be embodied and translated through drawing. By developing performative tactics in relation to his environment, Gansterer examines not only how the world is visually "captured", but also how the in-between spaces—the transitions and contingencies of perception—can be made tangible. This talk will discuss how drawing practices can operate as an apparatus for navigating, interacting with, and articulating the complexities of the world, particularly in moments of uncertainty and fluidity.
Publisher's Announcement
16, 17 & 18 OCTOBER 2024 UNIVERSITY OF PORTO, PORTUGAL i2ADS and the DRAWinU group* invite you to a time of drawing and collaborative reflection at a three-day in-person conference in Porto, Portugal,to rethink drawing-based strategies for challenging university borders. ——————————————————————————————— TALKS, WORKSHOPS AND PRACTICE SHARING Drawing Across x Along x Between University Borders considers the epistemological and transformative potential of drawing research to connect divergent areas in the university today. The conference focuses on drawing-based collaborations between art, science and society to tackle artistic, educational and societal challenges. We invite artists, scientists, educators, students, university policymakers and persons interested in inter-transdisciplinary practices across academia, research, and society to contribute and join the discussion in three possible directions: ACROSS In what ways are drawing practitioners challenging the disciplinary strictures that often constrain thinking and acting across divergent areas in the university? ALONG How can drawing activities be an ally of STEM education in the university, and how can STEM practices be an ally of drawing education? BETWEEN How can drawing-based practices and STEM disciplines collaborate to address the urgency of societal challenges? WHY DRAWING X VENUES PRACTICALITIES ABOUT DRAWinU ——————————————————————————————— WHY DRAWING ACROSS, ALONG, BETWEEN UNIVERSITY BORDERS? If we step into a STEM workplace today, we find all types of drawings circulating among scientists, technology researchers, engineers, or mathematicians. Computer screens connected to databases, where information is processed into vivid graphic visualisations, coexist with everyday drawing activities: observational sketches, graphs traced with markers in whiteboards, hand-drawn diagrams on found papers, or instructional illustrations. Some of these drawings are representations used as surrogates that stand for already acquired knowledge, while others are models designed to generate insights and produce new knowledge. Regardless of their names, the nature of their media and surfaces, they all stand for formal and informal ways to extend our minds in situations involving visual-spatial reasoning, feedback, or memory retention. In the last two decades, this diversity was mirrored by the growing interest in drawing activities as topics of STEM practices and pedagogy, such as drawing-to-learn or learning-by-drawing. Hybrid knowing spaces were also opened by art-science collaborative projects, where the objects, methods and epistemology of science meet artistic research. At this intersection, drawing acts as a situated form of inquiry to address and experiment with concepts and processes such as metabolism, movement, perception, pain, human mobility, emotion, matter, entropy, or time, among a diversity of phenomena across divergent areas. Triggered by the debates surrounding the epistemological impact of drawing activities in science, a shift of focus has also occurred. In the hybrid knowing spaces opened by art-science collaborations, drawing activities are not restricted to visualising, modelling, or understanding. They are a form of agency whose goal is to connect, act and care, a way of staying with the trouble, as Donna Haraway would put it. By addressing drawing as an agency, we consider the links between who is drawing and what is being drawn as part of both the artistic and scientific research process; we focus on how objects and subjects are constituted in their mutual interactions through drawing in order to transform ways of knowing, sensing, feeling and acting in the world. The three prepositions of the title – ACROSS X ALONG X BETWEEN – are attractors to explore drawing's different movements within university areas. They hint at possible research directions in terms of which the dualisms between embodied and discursive knowledge, image and writing or art and science in the university can be challenged. VENUES How to get to the Conference Venues [Day 1] 16 October − i3S − ~ Institute of Research and Innovation in Health R. Alfredo Allen 208, 4200-135 Porto (Asprela Campus) From the City Centre: If you are travelling by metro, please use the Yellow Line (Stop Pólo Universitário). For further information, check the Andante website (https://andante.pt/en/plan-trip/). If you prefer the bus, there are some lines connecting the city centre with Pólo Universitário. For further information, check the STCP website (https://www.stcp.pt/en/travel/). [Day 2 & 3] 17 & 18 October − FAUP − FAUP - Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto Via Panorâmica Edgar Cardoso 215, 4150-564 Porto (Campo Alegre Campus) *ABOUT THE DRAWinU PROJECT https://doi.org/10.54499/PTDC/ART-OUT/3560/2021 *ABOUT THE ORGANISING INSTITUTIONS i2ADS – Research Institute in Art, Design and Society & FBAUP – Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto.
Title of Event
Drawing In-between Worlds. Figuring Contingency
Location
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- Porto, Portugal
- Porto
- Portugal