Drawing as Digestion: Spatial Knowing Processes

The first event of the »More-than-human Sketching« series was a great success. Not only were the workshops fully booked, but the SpecLab team also spent two days developing a new immersive performance for the museum's visitors using augmented reality glasses and spatial drawing software. The performance, »Drawing as Digestion: Spatial Knowing Processes,« was presented to the public soon after. Short lectures and activities by Elaine Bonavia, Paulina Greta Stefanovic, and Maxime Le Calvé provided an unusual framework for participants to engage with the embodied and transformative power of tracing lines and being traced by them.

The »More-than-human Sketching« series aims to repurpose an emerging digital design tool, 3D drawing, to relate to collection objects. This tool is currently used by the Speculative Realities Lab (Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity« / Department for Neurosurgery, Charité) to suggest new approaches to neuroanatomical teaching. Through these experimental performative scores, immersants (as we call the spectators of immersive performances) are invited to actively explore the »more-than-human« exhibition at the KGM exhibition through collective engagements with spatial sketching. The exhibition also features the fabulous work with artificial coral gardens of Cluster Member Rasa Weber.

The next workshop, »Knitting of Crafted Things: Digitizing Worlds in Textile Networks,« took place at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin on June 20th-21st. During this workshop, a second performance was created, this time in collaboration with another SpecLab member, textile designer Nayeli Vega.

Link to workshop report

https://www.maximelecalve.com/on-going-fieldwork/2024/5/31/3d-sketching-performances-as-fieldwork-on-the-power-of-tracing-lines-to-relate-to

Program

Day 1 Wednesday 29.05.2024
10:00 am-5:00 pm

10:00 am Introduction
10:15 am-1:00 pm

• Movement session + »nervous listening« meditation (Maxime Le Calvé)
• Impulse presentation »sketching the forest within« (Maxime Le Calvé)
• 3D Sketching Jam 01 »digesting movement«
• Impulse presentation »spatial drawing« (Elaine Bonavia)
• 3D Sketching Jam 02 »digesting objects«

1:00-2:00 pm: LUNCH BREAK
2:00-4:00 pm:

• Impulse presentation »embodied interactions« (Paulina Greta Stefanovic)
• 3D Sketching Jam 3 »digesting otherwise« (different modes of visualization)

4:00-5:00 pm:

• Micro-phenomenological debrief interviews

Day 2 Thursday 30.05.2024
10:00 am-5:00 pm

10.00 Introduction
10:15 am-1:00 pm:

• Movement session + »nervous listening« meditation (Maxime Le Calvé)
• Reflections on Day I
• Impulse presentations (Maxime Le Calvé, Paulina Greta Stefanovic, Elaine Bonavia)
• 3D Sketching Jam 01 »digesting movement«
• 3D Sketching Jam 02 »digesting objects«

1:00-1:00 pm: LUNCH BREAK
2:00-4:00 pm:

• 3D Sketching Jam 03 »digesting textures«

4:00-5:00 pm:

• Micro-phenomenological debrief interviews

Registration

You can register for one or both days. The workshop is limited to 10 participants. Please register for the workshop at Kotryna.slapsinskaite.1 [​at​] hu-berlin.de.