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.

Contributions by: Juan Duque (LUCA School of Arts), Ada Güvenir (LUCA School of Arts), Marcia Nemer (Stockholm University of the Arts), Rasa Jančiauskaitė (Vilnius Academy of Arts), Sophie Durand (Vilnius Academy of Arts), Sébastien Conard (LUCA School of Arts), The Northern Drawing School (Samuel Nyholm, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Maija Kuseva and Elina Sunde, AAL Riga, Jan Tomson, Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam), Amélie de Beauffort (ARBA Bruxelles), Bart Geerts (LUCA School of Arts), Nikolaus Gansterer (Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien), Sílvia Simões (University of Porto), Heide Hinrichs and Michael Newman (Goldsmiths University of London)

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’).

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