Paper short abstract:

Participatory drawing workshop. Brew and Fält will continue their exploration of the potential of collaborative drawing as a universal language. As well as exploring what drawing does, they hope to develop new dynamic communicative ways of drawing through ongoing DoBeDo events.

Paper long abstract:

1 hour workshop - or duration to fit available time.

A roundtable silent conversation, wearing masks.

Structure:

1) Using a modification of the process developed in previous longer silent drawing workshops, participants will 'talk through drawing' for 30 minutes, on large sheets of paper using charcoal.

2) Brew and Fält will observe, and record video footage of the evolution of conversations.

3) Discussion of the way the conversation went and the sorts of things participants talked about.

4) Insights from previous DoBeDo drawing events.

The workshop explores:

How can we converse without words?

What sorts of things can drawing talk about?

Does drawing help us to listen?

Will people use lines as embodied invitations, e.g. to join a conversation?

Will people talk to themselves?

What will the drawn evidence tell us?

Project details:

https://emmafalt.net/portfolio/dobedos-drawing-conversations/

Angela Brew (UK) is a Director of Thinking through Drawing and the Brew Drawing School. She hosts international drawing symposia and professional development courses, and runs Brew Drawing Circles, an international collaborative drawing project.

https://arts-london.academia.edu/AngelaBrew

thinkingthroughdrawing.org

brewdraw.com

drawlearn.com

brewdrawingcircles.wordpress.com

Emma Vilina Fält (FINLAND) is an artist working in drawing, performance, installation and live art. She explores drawing as a listening process, Her live acts uses drawing as a means to make contact, to listen, and to collaboratively explore our experience of the world.

Video ( 56.41 mins) from recent workshop Drawing Togetherness:

https://youtu.be/aiBNvoqwqEg

emmafalt.net