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Drawing Disobedient Bodies
  • ISSN: 2057-0384
  • E-ISSN: 2057-0392

Abstract

Based on a personal bonding experience I had with a roof beam during a temporary residency in Brussels, I look into possibilities of as a practice through drawing. Bonding with a roof beam describes a particular process through which I gradually meet the surroundings in tactile proximities. I discuss that this process suggests an interplay between emotive and material aspects of bonding. Evolving through a series of experiments of drawing and three-dimensional studies, this paper presents three sets of works: and . These works elaborate on this interplay by seeking embodied relations between materials, tools and techniques of drawing with regard to tactile proximities, suggesting embodied spatio-temporalities and in-between spaces. I discuss that each individual work reconfigures the space of the drawing, as well as the experience of drawing, engaging in a discussion on matter, materiality and corporeality. Through the experiments, I argue that this drawing practice offers a liminal space of possibilities within the artefactual works by which a drafter finds a way to approach space by desire for an embodied materiality. In relation, I suggest that the bonding process becomes tactical in a state of transience as it offers ways to relate oneself to a place by desire.

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This study was supported by the:
  • Tinçel Cultural Foundation
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Bonding as a spatial practice: Bonding through drawing
Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice 9, 241 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00140_1
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Keyword(s): bonding; corporeality; drawing; drawing practice; materiality; matter

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