spurse
Drawing From/For The Everyday: Experimental Practices Of Drawing
April 6–April 27, 2007
Opening Reception: April 20, 7–9 p.m.
Workshops, April 17–20, 2007
spurse will exhibit a selected variety of drawings made by experimental drawing machines as well as experimental practices of drawing. The drawings for this exhibit are part of a spurse archive of drawings that total over 1000 and represent a wide range of experiments with drawing that transgress drawing as a representational practice but rather use the activity of drawing as an experimental practice. Our investigation is of drawing itself (both human and non-human). What is drawing and how does it produce new relations to our environment that are not contingent on fixed representations of the world we live in? How can drawing be used as a dynamic mediator of experience?
Along with their exhibit, spurse will hold a four-day workshop in the Mercer Gallery that will include the production of simple drawing apparatuses, experimental drawing walks on campus, drawing drives, and urban investigations exploring the potential applications of drawing machines and the drawings they produce. spurse will also present a lecture on their activity of working with experimental practices in drawing