Drawing is still writing: a visualization of punctuation Marks
Props:
- a yoyo
- A bag of elastic bands
- Builders line installation
- Funnel, dry brown beans and a tray
I want us to take a moment to think about lines or a line. Feel free to visualise it through the objects that will be in the space. Of course you are also welcome to visualise this line in your mind. I am just going to take you through a moment of visualising a line through punctuation marks.
(select a member from the audience. Instruct them to play with a yoyo and pause)
I’ll start Between and Ellipses and a full stop
(rolling of a yoyo)
A Line,
gravitates towards the centre of an unfamiliar surface.
moving,
and alluding to other meditations.
Some speculations, perhaps an alteration of place and A Re-orientation of space.
(Observe the yoyo player)
This line is a Translation of the gestures of an impulsive hand.
a validation of presence- and maybe more
collating at various points.
that will eventually slow down.
(select another member from the audience. Instruct them to make elastic band chains and yellow lines. Place them at different points. Pour out the strings)
Exclamation Marks
Read in tempos
(elastic band chain)
Starting! Learning! Stopping! Going! Adding! Skipping! booking! manufacturing!
balancing! resting! standing! Awkward! Folding! boxing! Evading! Rewiring! displacing
Navigating! breathing! Waiting! Not enough! Pointing! Burning! Fixing! replacement!
retracing! Being! Building ! knotting! Spotting! Layering! Escaping! coining!
clarity! Rhythm! Subtracting! Tripping! Dotting! fixing! becoming!
suggestions are created and
through sequences, they demonstrate
patterns that repeat their own form continuously,
at fluctuating tempos
within the margins of the surface.
From this,
A compilation of interpretations.
Options!
Hints!
Are Broken down
And Exposed
Into tiny particles.
Footnotes
(select another member from the audience. Funnel and tray. Place them at different points. Maybe another person can make an elastic band chain)
To be intuitively guided and held by lines
Obsessions with the illegible
a structure for comfort,
a repository of pathways,
That invokes multiple interactions cautiously.
Demanding space as well as demarcating it,
(pause)
some preparations need to proceed.
So here is A checklist for a visceral collage.
Let the lines become a culmination of a collective experience.
an act of distributions.
Traces of a union
That can either be Drawn from or drawn to something.
Merely an object existing into something else.
Recognisable
Mundane
Arbitrary.
it twists, loops and spirals into disorder.
scraps and fragments should be shifting between details, moments and delicacies.
I want to see a variation of scale and textures.
an intimate collection of unwanted things.
A line extends out between the voids.
Round lines. Fluid lines.
Hollowed out,
Standing,
Rotating,
Spinning,
Turning,
Endlessly
coiling back into itself at a much slower pace.
Script for the intervention Drawing is Still Writing. A visualisation of Punctuation Marks for Vleeshal curated by Nomaduma Masilela and Thiago De Paula Souza.