Drawing Your Mind

About

Contemporary art is a complex system of knowledge that insistently proposes new and original questions about (dis)identifying. Multiple ways exist to explore and recognize our subjectivities in time and space. That’s why cartography, a topographical device, might help us find ourselves through visual language.
The exercise of trying to construct a mental map will be the excuse to delve into the “mental image” and the possibility of representing these images in a whole of relations. The mental image is a relatively independent subset within the subject. The experience of incorporating the affective-emotional plane will enrich these images until they become symbols. Symbols are also memory images resulting from an intense exchange between the subject and a situation. From this universe of symbols, invention can emerge and produce new images. One can set up a system capable of integrating more images.
Essentially, it will be a matter of arborescence and unfolding ideas embodied in words, drawings, pictures, music, gestures, objects, etc. During the workshop, we will work individually and in groups to construct a cartographic language. A mental and critical map can help us situate ourselves in a vital, wholesome experience

Course leader

Adriana Bustos

Target group

Drawing

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