DRAWING AFFAIRS - 2024 EARN Conference

Lectures & artist talks

Within EARN (European Artistic Research Network), LUCA School of Arts has initiated On Drawing, a new working group with a specific focus on drawing practices.

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?

To officially start the working group and to invite different perspectives from the field LUCA organizes Drawing Affairs, the 2024 EARN conference. Drawing Affairs is set up as a meeting place, a platform for exchanging knowledge and experience in relation to drawing as an artistic research practice. The focus is on exploring new perspectives, networking, and on developing and initiating shared research initiatives, artistic encounters, publications, and conversations.

About EARN

EARN was established to share and exchange knowledge and experience in artistic research; foster mobility, exchange and dialogue among artist researchers; promote wider dissemination of artistic research; and enable international connectivity and exchange for artistic research. Since 2020 the agenda for EARN has evolved. There is now a new approach to co-development of research through thematic working groups; a new emphasis on active research generation; and a process of expanding membership (beyond the provincial boundaries imagined as ‘Europe’).

EARN Website

Attending the conference is free, but registration is required.

CALL for PhD students from EARN members

During the conference we offer the opportunity to PhD students for whom drawing plays a specific role in their work to present their research. This can be done through a presentation (20 minutes), by showing artistic work or a combination of both. If you are interested, you can contact Bart Geerts until 27 September.

Contact Bart Geerts

The programme is under construction. Names of the speakers will be added in the next weeks.

Wednesday October 30
Plenary DRAWING AFFAIRS conference

9:30-10:00	Coffee
10:00-12:15	Introducing PhD research on drawing
12:15-13:30	Lunch
13:30-15:00	Session 1: Research topics and partners on drawing
15:30-15:45	Break
15:45-17:15	Session 2: Research topics and partners on drawing
17:15-17:30	Break
17:30-18:30	Keynote