Reworking the topology of the life-drawing space: how model-led life-drawing can effect change and growth through applying principles of sexuate difference. (original) (raw)

Abstract

Chapter in progress as part of a Cambridge Scholars publication. "The paper posits that conventional life-drawing in Western art practice can be rejuvenated and enriched by processes of change that centre on the life-model articulating an active subject position for her or himself; and through applying paradigms of sexuate difference to practices of figurative arts-making. It suggests that the life-drawing space, its conventions and activities, are marked by a phallocentric and ocularcentric topology of sameness, that proves oppressive and reductive to all concerned, in particular the life-model. It argues that it is possible to reconfigure the topology of the space to one of difference and becoming through model-led figurative making that articulates the irreducible differences inherent (but frequently disregarded) in the practice and conventions of the life-drawing room; and which prioritises breath, voice, embodiment, touch, movement, listening and mimetic intervention. Drawing on 13 years' experience of experimental life-modelling in UK galleries, colleges and workshop studios, the speaker illustrates how an application of Irigaray's philosophies on gender, breath and irreducible difference has contributed positively to the development of practices that prioritise relational and horizontal ethics in the life-drawing space. For details of the conference, please follow this link: http://www.rmit.edu.au/topologies2014"

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