The Dirty Drawings series is a non-profit organization founded in 2021. It has been designed and curated by Bilge Bal, with the curiosity of situated drawing practices, an attempt to experience a collaborative ground to co-create, co-experiment and confabulate about drawing. It consists of international public lectures, workshops, and nomadic exhibitions, and other creative forms to experiment with drawing.
#01 Aslıhan Demirtaş (Khora Office)
“Drawing on Dirt”
November 22, 2023, 19.00 (GMT+3, Istanbul)
via Zoom
"Drawing in a glance
And then a second look
And more.
The world focusses
And it spins out again, seen. "
from The World Through A Circle, Nancy Holt, ca 1970
Language and drawing are two major abstractions I use daily in my practice–pretty much all who practice architecture do. While such abstract tools to know and communicate the world are historically offsprings of structures of power, redefinitions and subversions are ways in which alternatives may be facilitated to bloom. It is in this consciously undisciplined bubble where I position my architectural practice. In this lecture-contemplation, I will expand on the notion of ‘drawing on dirt’ with my works of architecture centered around earth such as the Garden of the Worm and the Bird, the Winter Garden and the Plinth as well as drawing and ceramic sgraffito works which ruminate on the geological, geographical and political such as Dam Stories and Graft Basins.
About Aslıhan Demirtaş
Aslıhan Demirtaş is a practicing architect, artist, writer, and educator. Her practice Khora Office is an expanded architecture practice based on research, art and ecology and is situated on and around the boundaries of disciplines engaged in making, often in the forms of buildings, gardens, and art projects. After completing her graduate degree at MIT, she collaborated with I.M. Pei as the lead project designer for the Museum of Islamic Arts in Doha, Qatar and the Miho Chapel in Japan. Demirtaş has taught at Parsons at the New School, Bilgi and Khas Universities and has lectured at GSD, Harvard, MIT, The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and American University in Beirut among others. She is the recipient of the Graham Foundation Grant for her book Graft, an active member of the Initiative for the Protection of the Historical Yedikule Urban Gardens and acted as technical reviewer for the Aga Khan Architecture Awards, 15th cycle.
aslihan-demirtas.com
About The Dirty Drawings no.3
Drawings in Love: A Transdisciplinary Possibilities of A Tender Drawing
The Dirty Drawings series is a non-profit organization founded in 2021. It has been designed and curated by Bilge Bal, with the curiosity of situated drawing practices, an attempt to experience a collaborative ground to co-create, co-experiment and confabulate about drawing. It consists of international public lectures, workshops, and nomadic exhibitions, and other creative forms to experiment with drawing.
Drawings in Love is about the caring act to a drawing, beyond being a conforming body; but a tender, inappropriate-d, speculative, troubled, embodied, curious, non-, more than ... one. Constructed as the care of Hejduk’s Architectures in Love, the DD no.3 is a chromosomic exchange to unbind /unstitch / uncover / unmake the ‘architectural’ every level. Drawings in Love will discover transdisciplinary possibilities of a tender drawing through agencies of drawing as engagements and relational spaces in-between where the architectural appears: haptic experiments, material notations, visual interactions, tactics for mediations, critical craftsmanship and tacit dimension as knowing from the inside; drawing inventions, interventions and investigations.
For further details and link to join mail to balbilly@gmail.com
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