The Journal of Visual Culture has recently published an article written by Sara Schneckloth entitled “Marking Time, Figuring Space: Gesture and the Embodied Moment”. Sara works in a variety of media as a way to explore the potential of contemporary drawing practice. She is an Assistant Professor of Drawing at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, USA.
“Marking Time, Figuring Space: Gesture and the Embodied Moment”
Sara Schneckloth
“I recently wrote an article for the Journal of Visual Culture regarding embodiment, memory, and gesture drawing”
Sara Schneckloth
Assistant Professor, Drawing, University of South Carolina, USA
From the abstract: This article addresses the role played by gesture in theorizing embodiment in drawing practice. The gesture here is cast simultaneously as the material trace left on the drawing surface as well as an intentional act geared toward enabling participatory spectatorship. Both forms of the gesture are enacted through attention to embodiment in drawing as performed through the organs of artist and audience. The surface of a drawing affords openings for gesture’s potential to convey meaning beyond the semiotic and as a site for ongoing physical and aesthetic intervention on the part of the spectator. Drawing’s capacity for enabling multiple forms of embodiment positions it uniquely in the landscape of contemporary art as a site of vision, touch, and experience.
Sage Publications has just made the pdf’s for the article available free of charge at: http://vcu.sagepub.com/content/7/3/277.full.pdf+html
You can also visit Sarah Schneckloth’s Website for more information about her work.
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