in collaboration with Jeanette Pols (UvA) and Helena Cleeve (university of Gotherburg)

2023

In the workshop for this science-art-philosophy cross-over festival, we invited the audience to join us in short drawing exercises, prompting participants to engage with their surroundings in a multitude of ways. The first day, short drawing exercises familiarized participants with the situatedness and practice-specificity of drawing. We experimented with different ways and styles of drawing and attended to how these foster different ways of noticing. Participants also made first attempts to generate prompts for someone else as a way to affect the sensitivities of the other. During the fringe festival, we dove deeper into drawing as a collaborative practice of becoming sensitive (as opposed to viewing drawing as an individual talent). Through an exchange of drawings and of drawings and words, we became more and more articulated at using drawing as a sensitizing tool that can help us see worlds and practice knowledge in unexpected ways. 

The program booklet of the festival featured drawings I produced using the same prompts we used for our audience. They were made during the rehearsal sessions of the musicians and dancers who performed during the festival.