THE DRAWING COLLECTIVE

'Drawing is a language that we all learned to 'speak' at a young age. Once upon a time we were all smooth draftsmen. Apparently we have lost that 'dare' somewhere under the pressure of other people's judgment or cultural expectations.'

The drawing collective of the Summer Academy 2023 can best be seen as a laboratory or workplace where individual and collective drawing processes and results will influence and feed each other for a whole week.

We explore the world of signs (line, plane, shape, texture, color) created by using different drawing materials: chalk, tape, pencil, stamps, marker, light…  

We draw in the broad sense of the word and the emphasis is clearly on the writing or drawing language. Prior knowledge is not immediately necessary. Anyone can draw or create signs.

In the morning we work together in the laboratory in a number of workshops, where we sometimes work collectively (joint decisions on one sheet) and then again collaboratively (individual designs that are subsequently brought together in one whole).

After the afternoon there is time to shape your own drawing research. You can do this by bringing your own material and work or you can start from scratch.

 
The workshop is open until late at night and there are always interesting research projects waiting to be opened up. Think of drawing with light, drawing robots, drawing with long sticks, blow-ups on walls and windows…

And as befits every researcher-draftsman, we also keep a small collaborative sketchbook on a daily basis. That will be the log of this artistic week in which we tickle our new insights and then share them with each other.

At the end of the week we will show our discoveries during the open lab moment, where we would like to 'test' the drawing experiments and show them to a broad and participatory audience.
 

​

max. 12 participants