UNEKSIMINEN – RIIPPUMINEN – SYLKKY
Dreaming, Hanging and Lap
Site-specific drawing installation for the group exhibition OMEGA 3
In this work I encountered building, the old linseed factory in Mooste, Estonia like it would be someone like a friend.
I spent around three weeks in MoKs residency and created two large scale drawings that were traces of our meetings.
I agreed to stay there around, inside and next to the building every day for several hours. I improvised the acts by listening, touching and sensing the environment.
Builing as a friend:
Work consists three parts:
Uneksiminen/Dreaming. 1,5m x 10m. Ink on paper.
Riippuminen/Hanging. 1,5m x 10m. Ink on paper.
Sylkky/Lap. 20 Petri glasses, things in them found from the factory,Overalls, breathing mask, brushes, notes all gathered to create drawings
The work gathers together materials and traces from drawing practice with the old lindseed factory between 24.4. -15.5. Together with, in and around the factory, we did 16 acts of drawing on paper using Ink, water and many found materials. Main scene for the drawing process was the top layer of the factory where I was able to open up to environment and let my line free.
Acts/Materials in chronological order:
- Lying/Seed pile
- Crossing/Linen and Hemp
- Dangerous Picnic and Running Girls/ Snags, brick, plastic, moss and willow branch
- Visiting/ Unpractical shoes
- Looking in/ Numb feet
- Climbing/ Movement in 4 points of the compass
- Cutting/ drawing with a glass, gathering dust
- Hanging/ Movement when hanging in different ways
- Hanging 2/ Nails, ropes
- Looking at hanging/Paper is hanging
- Peeling / Overalls, box of cigarette
- Recording/ brush
- Grasping/ hands, gloves
- Breathing and hanging/ beans and dust
- Horizontal hanging / movement dialogue with the dust
- Recording/ All materials gathered in the studio
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Dear You,
Thank you for your message and interest towards collaborative drawing processes. I really appreciate your question and pondering. I am currently planning on a book/online diary about my process because so big part of it is hidden. So, yes, I think in many ways it would be possible, even if challenging, but sometimes needed, to open up the process for those who were not there.
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I have a curiosity. How do you link acts , materials and process of mark making. What is the pre requirement of defining what is linke with what and the consequent mark making and where the mark needs to be made and what criteria’s decide that. I know there is a guiding artist but who makes the mark making processes and where they should be in the space ? May be personal mark making in response to own internal stimuli and then overlapping of diverse marks and creation of an ambiguous drawing act which may or may not have ability to be interpreted!
wonder what and May be made more interesting by animating the whole drawing act !y will still be a diverse act of collaborative drawing fulfilling the cultural, ecological, political and social requirements of the project.
Is it possible to explain the whole project and drawing process clearly and in detail?