COMMUNICATION- workshops - Helena Elias


DAY 1-  26.02.24- see full notes transcript here

summary of notes:


  • To set conditions so creation can happen in several ‘practiced’ environment (so almost like research questions for each environment): Artistic practice, Studio practice, Knowledge practice (in institution)

  • Visual experience vs tactile experience of drawing: 
   -visual experience: Impression, visualisation, projection, in                between, positive space and negative space
   -Tactile experience: contour, touch, concave, convex, texture,        surface change.

  • The line as an expression of contour, of the limits of objects, and of the possibility of objects' existence.The hand that generates the contour -through tactility, it defines the limits, surface changes, texture. This hand is inclusive, it is the experience of touch, even if the ultimate meaning is retinal...

  • Print + drawing: slabs of clay rolled on canvas can also make a drawing.

  • Line and contour speculations (constructing something 3D from drawing of shadows)

  • Ceramic fragments can have another life than making the object all over again. re-use/recycling of clay in other cultures (smash them and make something else)
  • Use of Pliny the elder dibutades story: it has developed into what we think of euro-centric way of thinking of art but when we look at how the ‘story’ is told, its much closer to other non-eurocentric ways of telling stories. So the complexity of euro-centric and non-eurocentric knowledges and how they influence each other. 

  • AND all the satellite/connecte themes attached to it (it was a woman drawing but a man’s writing about it, that would have affected the story and interpretation). 

  • Take into account the sensoriness of the material I use when doing the exercise

  • CORINNE MELIN corimelin@gmail.com
    Sensorialité à travers la littérature, le cinéma, la marche, ecole des beaux-arts de pau 
    Le corps-texte, pierre-louis patoine

  • Feedback from exercise
    Creating a new narrative of the space based on how it was used= the narrative of the space it’s like a cartography.