WG8ON DRAWING
ABOUT
On Drawing is an open invitation to artistic researchers from different disciplines to share knowledge on the state of drawing today, to explore how drawing relates to the world around us and how these relations can be articulated. How to conceptualize drawing’s embodied and material mode of thinking? What’s the position of ‘the drawer’ in relation to other human and non-human agents, technological developments and systems of Artificial Intelligence? Can drawing help us to undraw and undo thinking as usual, and can it act as a bridge to notions of otherness/otherwise? Can we draw other vocabularies to critically disclose and perform the practice of drawing as an epistemic process closely related to thinking, writing, and reading? The aim of On Drawing is to share and exchange knowledge and experience in relation to drawing as an artistic research practice. The working group will focus on networking and on developing and initiating shared research initiatives, artistic encounters, publications, and conversations.
The working group On Drawing brings together colleagues from several institutions.
MEMBERS
This working group is being developed at the intersection of two other drawing initiatives, one facilitated by Dr. Bart Geerts (LUCA Brussels) and the other facilitated by Dr. Kathrin Gollwitzer-Oh (University of the Arts, Bremen, Hfk-Bremen). Full. membership listing will be posted for the 22 October 2025 opening of the conference “bodies as institutions as bodies.”
UPCOMING
Pending update at the October Symposium in Stockholm 22–24 October 2025 at “bodies as institutions as bodies.”
PREVIOUS
Dr. Bart Geerts’ group organised the very successful DRAWING AFFAIRS EARN Conference, LUCA and exhibition (2024). Some years ago, Dr. Geerts and other colleagues at LUCA also hosted and organized THAT ART EXHIBITS – LUCA School of Arts, EARN Conference 2016.
Dr. Kathrin Gollwitzer-Oh has been a regular presenter at the EARN annual funding workshops advising on postdoctoral and senior research funding opportunities that have been offered in recent years. The Northern Drawing School has been a very active force ion promoting an expanded sense of drawing as an interdisciplinary approach enabling a wide variety of inquiries.