Drawing Figures
The act of drawing and the performative potential of drawing (as a quite simple, analogue maybe even archaic medium) is to be explored and expanded as a medium of communication of ideas. Herewith I am interested in the notion of the figure and the figurative in close reference to the concept of the body. The question of the action potential of a drawn diagrammatic figure (of thought) for a human figure is fascinating me.
I want to explore with others the idea of the “figure” as something dynamic/flexible which has always specific performative aspects eg semantic figures of gestures, figures of speech, figures of lines in space, figures of movement. Based on these dynamic figures I aim to explore the relationship between thinking, drawing, acting. (see figures)
When drawing a diagram I made this initial experience that it can serve (next to its original purpose to visualize an idea in a rather schematic form) also as a tool to explore meaning and can become a vehicle for decision making.
These ideas I wish to be practically further explored in the group by reconstructing, transforming, enhancing some of the figures which describe/depict an individual interpretation (=hypothesis).
Nikolaus Gansterer
