The Dirty Drawings Wednesday Talks have been organized by Bilge Bal and hosted by Istanbul Kent University since Spring 2022. The no.2 series of four inter/national lectures and two workshops will occur between December 2022 and March 2023.
The Dirty Drawings Wednesday Talks no.2 will focus on an earthly imagination: modern essays through the act of drawing to read the simultaneity of the (un)built and natural ones as companions, to sense the design investigations on/ more than the human Anthropocene, the ecology of a changing Earth, and to cast cross-disciplinary research tools and collaborations beyond divisions.
#04 Riet Eeckhout (Guest Professor with a research position at the faculty of architecture of KU Leuven)
“Figural Space”
February 22, 2023, 19.00 (GMT+3, Istanbul)
via Zoom
Meeting ID: 845 8748 1722
Passcode: 737100
The drawings, in their figural nature, perform as a medium for the graphical exploration of spatial notions; I am preoccupied with its capacity to generate a spatial sensation, rather than a spatial representation. The drawings don’t delineate an inside or outside, and there are no exact borders of where an entirety begins or ends. I need the drawings to be large, placed vertically, standing in front of the drawings as I make them, in search of spatial experience, the sensation of urgency arises, an urgency of instant involvement with a subject in view. Being immersed, sitting up close to the drawing board, unable to see the edges of the drawing, prevents the drawing from becoming an object, treasured in hand. It allows the subject matter in its spatial intent to become tangible, capable of being sensed, experienced, and touched. Their postures, oblique and never fully frontal revealed, the drawing configuration pulls you in and continues off page. The drawings are an extract, a sample, every time, the final draft of the immersion called architecture.
About Riet Eeckhout
Riet Eeckhout is Guest Professor with a research position at the faculty of architecture of KU Leuven (Belgium). As a researcher she exhibits, publishes and writes about her drawings from within the discipline of architecture. Her drawings have been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale (IT), La Gallerie d’Architecture (Paris), Tchoban Foundation Museum of Architectural Drawing (Berlin), Architekturmuseum der TU Berlin, and Art Omi: Architecture (US), Design Centre UQUAM (Montreal), a83 gallery (NYc).
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