More about the workshop: Fusing practical and conceptual concerns, this one-day workshop with Emma Cocker and Nikolaus Gansterer investigates 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 will be encouraged to devise ways through which to draw attention to or even interrupt these habitual social patterns or flows. The workshop will explore and test 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.
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
This workshop will aim to investigate different ideas in relation to drawing and performing, by exploring spatial and social relations within the city space of Vienna, and the capacity of drawing to both reflect and insinuate the shape that such relations take. It will be performed through live action research involving a group of artists based in Vienna. Areas of investigation will include:
* The line drawing or diagram’s capacity to draw attention to or map existing spatial and social relations
* The line drawing or diagram’s capacity to insinuate, suggest or propose new / different / counter / alternative spatial and social relations
* The notion that social relations themselves can constitute a form of drawing; that the interrelations or interconnectedness between bodies in space can operate as a drawing practice. This facet will specifically address the idea of site/sight lines, reflecting on the capacity of 'glance' to operate as a drawing or drawn line through space.
The workshop will also explore some of the ideas - around flow, synchronicity, productive gaps, connectivity - identified within two postcard texts produced by Emma Cocker in collaboration with the UK based performance collective, Open City.
Some further contextual references
- based on a presentation by Emma Cocker, Between Wandering and Waiting at The University of Applied Arts, 10 June 2011
Further Reading
Emma Cocker, (2012), ‘Towards an Emergent Knowledge of the Margins’, forthcoming book chapter in Emerging Landscapes: Between Production and Representation, (ed.) Dr. Eugenie Shinkle, (Ashgate Publishing)
--- (2012) ‘Exit Strategies: Looking for Loopholes, forthcoming book chapter in The Cartographical Necessity of Exile, (ed.) Dr. Karen Bishop, (publisher tbc)
--- ‘Border Crossings – Practices for Beating the Bounds’, forthcoming book chapter in Liminal Landscapes, (Routledge)
--- (2012) ‘The Restless Line, Drawing’, forthcoming essay in Hyperdrawing: Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art, eds. Phil Sawdon and Russell Marshall (I. B. Tauris)
--- (2010) ‘Performing Stillness: Community in Waiting’, book chapter in Stillness in a mobile world, eds. David Bissell and Gillian Fuller, (International Library of Sociology Series, Routledge)
--- (2009) ‘Not Yet There', book chapter in Telling Stories: Countering Narrative in Art, Theory and Film, eds. Jane Tormey and Gillian Whiteley, (Cambridge Scholars Press)
--- (2011) ‘R.S.V.P. Choreographing Collectivity through Invitation and Response’, essay in Rhizomes, Hives, Tribes, Assemblages: New Collectivities
--- (2009) 'From Passivity to Potentiality: The Communitas of Stillness', in M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture, Still, Vol. 12, No. 1.
--- (2009) 'Pay Attention to the Footnotes', peer-reviewed article in Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, issue on 'Writing Encounters in Performance and Pedagogical Practice'
--- (2007) ‘Desiring to be led Astray’, peer reviewed article in Papers of Surrealism, AHRC Centre for Surrealism and its Legacies, Autumn 2007
--- (2007), ‘The Art of Misdirection’, in Dialogue – Burning Public Art
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