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<i>Marking Time</i>- IDRI at the Drawing Connections Conference | The College of Fine Arts
<i>Marking Time</i>- IDRI at the Drawing Connections Conference | The College of Fine Arts
When:
Fri, 3 Oct, '08 - Sat, 4 Oct, '08
Where: COFA, UNSW
Gosia Wlodarczak, performance drawing. Courtesy the artist, and Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney, and Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra.
The International Drawing Research Institute (IDRI) at COFA, will convene at the 4th Drawing
Connections Conference on the 3 and 4 October 2008.
“The object which I draw is not as important as the moment when I draw it. I have to
use the object because I have to draw. I don’t like and I never liked doing things from the
imagination. I always keep in mind my awareness of what is happening around me; I don’t like to
lose awareness. As I make a line I am aware that it is a material thing and that in it is my living
energy; that is proof that I am alive.’
- Gosia Wlodarczak 2003
Marking Time explores a broad range of
drawing practice - drawing which deals with the development of images or focuses upon a period of
time or place, or indeed the performative process where the act of drawing is revealed. Marking Time celebrates, and is
inclusive of, diverse cultural filters overlaid on the personal act of mark-making. The 4th Drawing Connections Conference creates the opportunity
in one space for artists, drawing researchers, writers and academics from many places to explore
drawing as an idea, a process and as an outcome.
Artists involved in Marking Time include:
Polish born Gosia Wlodarczak - performance drawing
Roohi Ahmed and Abdullah Syed - contemporary Pakistani drawing
Dr. Catherine Burge, Lincoln University
The Drawings of Louise Bourguois
Paul Carter
Exemplary Research Candidates involved in Marking Time include:
Postgraduate researchers (PhD and Masters levels) from the Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow,
Scotland, the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China and the College of Fine Arts, Sydney,
Australia.
Exhibitions associated with Marking Time include:
Liberation Feet - Contemporary Chinese Drawing - Ivan Dougherty Gallery
Marking Time - Performance and Time-Based drawing Projects - COFA Space
Tim Olsen Drawing Award - Kudos Gallery
Hunter to Hunted - Little Hunter Lane
Field Trip USA Anna John; My metaphorical arsehole & other drawings Pia de
Bruyn; Doodles Fran Barrett - firstdraft Gallery
When: 3 & 4 October 2008
Where: EG02, College of Fine Arts,
Paddington, NSW.
Cost: Full Price $300,
Concession and early bird $200, Student $100
Registration and Information Contact: email
idri@unsw.edu.au, phone 9385 0807