The Drawing Board #10 Q&A - Saturday 22 August 6pm
The Drawing Board #10
Patrick Milsom
Saturday 22 August 6pm
Primary, Nottingham
The concept of The Drawing Board #10 is
to play out a durational and performative drawing process that explores
the genesis of a drawing, through a ritualistic and repetitive system,
the physical materials used in the drawing are removed from The Drawing Board site,
carried continuously by the performer; throughout each day notes are
made recording events and experiences. The performer then returns to the
site, tallies the number of words written each day, this number is then
used to make a series of marks, over the ten week period of the process
these series of marks will grow to form a interconnected whole.
Each
of the individual marks in a drawing is a record of a physical action
in time. One mark holds within it a history, a history of all that has
come before, all that engendered its coming into being. This single
mark is an intimate ontological statement that is both arbitrary and
full of potential, being for itself and being for others, when this
individual mark is proceeded by another, the new mark creates a
relationship, its being is unequivocally linked to its predecessor and
they become intertwined in their temporality and spatiality to form a
mutual being that is greater than themselves.
They
are a history, a present and all potential futures at once. The
simplicity of these two events becoming something more is a fascinating
proposition and when they are joined by a third, fourth or hundredth
mark the resulting greater whole transcends the initial parameters and
the unexpected outcome that manifests can be truly beautiful.
But
what of the events that engendered this process? The everyday
occurrences that lead to the extraordinary, what of the lived body that
physically presses the tool onto the surface, the relationship between
artist, material and location as the ritualised process of drawing
unfolds, and the experience of the spectator as they are invited to
immerse themselves in this experience?
By
demystifying the actual drawing process the intention is to create an
invitation into the intimate unfolding of the drawing, revealing the
human experience behind the mechanical making of the marks and creating
an aesthetic experience that is authentic and honest, where the artist
and spectator can connect in a shared experience much like that of the
two individual marks, the mark of history and the mark of ontology.
Patrick
Milsom is currently studying for an MA in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent
University; his research is concerned with investigating the actual and
implied physicality of mark making and its affect and effect on temporal
drawing processes. Milsom has exhibited widely in the UK, was
shortlisted for the Salon Art Prize 2011 and is represented by The
Contemporary London.
The Drawing Board
The Drawing Board is
a space for handwritten performances that aims to turn a corridor into a
destination and to return the walls of an old school building in
Nottingham to their former use as a place of display. Curated by Michael
Pinchbeck, The Drawing Board explores how we write, how we perform
writing and how writing performs.
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