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Accepted Paper:

blubilds, a formless diagram for alteration  
Joanna Leah Geldard (Leeds Beckett University)

Paper short abstract:

This paper introduces blubilds as a drawing system of alteration. Drawing from the restraints of static plans, diagrams and blueprints, blubilds work with contradictory forces of organised linear drawings and action drawings in an active process between body, apparatus and lively lines.

Paper long abstract:

blubilds are an active drawing method that processes the conditions of diagrams as notation and knowledge made like diagrammatic rooms. Inserted into Edgelands urban and rural waste signatures, these blubild rooms dump the body to scatter and fragment. This paper aims to show how the blubild as a set of forces disperses both diagram and body are dispersed into a stain to alter the sites of edgelands.

Drawing on the disciplines of drawing, dance and installation to create lively lines, the formless diagram is an energy that plays on the relationship between sensation and frame, a tension that attacks the frame as a point of resistance in order to almost joyfully beat, fall and resist as a mapping. In repetition the blubilds are like maps and zones that makes the subject an integrated site through a series of quasi relations between body and site, body and apparatus, body and line. Like a game along the axis, in relation, the subject is spread across and altered by action and its placement in a site to become an intense block. blubilds attack form and use the formless wastelands edgelands ground as a site of production. Edgelands usually dominated by masculine activity, are altered into playful, active and feminine temporary sites of art/architecture. Through dynamic lines taken from a feminine and divergent point of view a blubild offers a mode of alteration on how we might experience, occupy and represent, in other words draw the sites od edgelands with feminine action drawing.

Panel P013
Drawings Of, Drawings By, and Drawings With...
  Session 1 Saturday 2 June, 2018, -