DRAWING MARATHON - I

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DRAWING MARATHON - I

An Art Workshop for Young Art Practitioners

Conceptualized by Ruchika Wason Singh

October 13, 2018

at Critical Dialogues Art Space Delhi, India

Drawing Marathon is a conceptual approach to the practice of

drawing, stemming from developing a relationship between time

and drawing. The workshop sought to explore time as a

determinant/variable, in shaping the collaborative process of

drawing between a collective of artists. Modulated through timing,

the rhythm of creation is developed and altered in the continuity

and pauses, engagements and disruptions Time is utilised as an

agent to punctuate the artistic process with interludes , thereby

bringing in the scope of multiple interventions into individual

works within the group.

In its first edition, Drawing Marathon-I, a one-day art workshop

invited young graduates and post-graduates in art from India and

Bangladesh to participate . Between the individual and collective,

the experience of 'timing' of drawing also made the participants

transcend the boundaries of perceiving drawing ,through the

modalities previously acquired by them. In this sense, the

workshop also set to challenge the pre- established notions of

drawing, shaped by some current pedagogic practices.

Collaboration was guided by a random duality and/or multiplicity

emerging from 'timing'.This also meant that to a great extent, the

development of the form/s and the work, were chartered by the

sub-conscious and the unplanned, the spontaneous and the

unknown, the desired and the undesired, the growth of a form and

its aborted or altered imagination.

The artists worked on small format works on paper with mediums

such as collage, dry pastels, pens, pencils and ink and produced a

body of works. In a span of few hours, a range of expressions

resulted in negotiations of individual aesthetic sensibilities. Drawing

as an agency of imagination and expression created a zone of

surprise and discomfort, making it both an aesthetic and a

psychological collaborative exercise .The works produced by the

artists were exhibited by them at the site of the workshop itself.

Their extended engagement with the studio space allowed a

progression of the process, furthering their observation of their

own dextrous movements, mark making, linearity against the

unconventional display walls .The one-day workshop ended with

open-hours for public and drew avid viewership, response and

critique from their peers.

Ruchika Wason Singh visual artist - independent researcher December, 2018.

Avani Bakaya

Manisha Yadav

Manpreet Kaur

Ritika Mittal

Shubhra Shah

Sukanya Garg

Shreya Kharbanda

Shruti Sarkar

Ritika Sharma Tilottama

Vikrant

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