Spatial (Inter) Relational: Casting a glance

Introduction to the Workshop

This blog documents and reflects on work collectively produced as part of a workshop, Spatial (Inter) Relations, developed through dialogue/collaboration between Emma Cocker, Nikolaus Gansterer and students at the Institute for Transmedia Art, Vienna. It is intended as a collaborative space for drawing together work, experiments, ideas, thoughts, reflections developed through a one-day workshop that took place on June 10th 2011 in Vienna. Participants include: Emma Cocker, Nikolaus Gansterer, Tabitha Dottinger, Renate Mihelsch, Charlie Allen, Levi Baubiueler, Sarah Rechberger, Joanna Coleman, Janos Ivan Kavpati, Xaver Gschnitzey, Nicole Weniger

WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS ARE INVITED TO RESPOND & ADD TO THE LISTED POSTS OR CREATE NEW POSTS

More about the workshop: Fusing practical and conceptual concerns, this one-day workshop with Emma Cocker and Nikolaus Gansterer investigated how the performative practices of wandering, waiting, drawing, writing and reading can operate as creative ‘tactics’ or methods for navigating or negotiating space differently to expectation, convention or habit. By mapping or diagramming how spatial relations are organized and orchestrated within various public spaces, workshop participants were encouraged to devise ways through which to draw attention to or even interrupt these habitual social patterns or flows. The workshop explored and tested how invitations, instructions or even drawn scores can be used to activate different ways of navigating or traversing public space, producing temporary and experimental forms of connectivity and social interaction

Thursday 9 June 2011

Casting a glance

This 'section' of the blog deals with or explores ideas, experiments, tests, responses, ideas, references which relate to the idea of 'casting a glance'.

Making a Proposition into Space

prop·o·si·tion

[prop-uh-zish-uhn

1. the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.

2. a plan or scheme proposed.

3. an offer of terms for a transaction

4. a thing, matter, or person considered as something to be dealt with or encountered:

5. stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration.

6. an operation to be performed; a theorem or a problem.

7. a proposal

[in-sin-yoo-eyt]

1. to suggest or hint

2. to instill or infuse subtly or artfully, as into the mind:

3.to bring or introduce into a position or relation by indirect or artful methods:

What is a proposition? How is the line propositional? How can a performed action be propositional? How might a performance echo the propositional quality of drawing? Performing As if. Drawing as if. Drawing the subjunctive. Between observation and imagination. Not entirely fiction. Suggestion. Hypothesis. Between intention and actuality. Between what is and what could be. Not the making of a performance as such, as the making of a proposition. Futurity. Suggestion. Insinuation. Proposition. Hypothesis. Drawing a hypothesis.

Exploring line/drawings capacity to insinuate, suggestion or propose new / different / counter / alternative spatial and social relations.

* Use the research conducted in part 1 - knowledge of flows and connectivities - for devising a set of small actions and interventions. How can an action be insinuated into a space (insinuating action/purpose/intention into what is already there. The intervention is the drawn line. The performance of a line.

* Documentation as proposition rather than as record. The propositional document. Document as score. Perform documents. Develop them as scores.

The following diagrams are intended as a set of initial prompts, propositions, provocations for considering these aspects of drawing to performed space: