Signals#30 Hiraku Suzuki
As the pandemic broke out about a year and a half ago, we started this project called ‘Signals’. Since then, things may have either changed or remained the same. With regard to the changes in human society, the world doesn’t seem to have changed that much. As for myself, I…
Drawing Orchestra
https://drawingorchestra.org/ TOKYO CANAL LINKS 2021 “Drawing Orchestra featuring Abdelkader Benchamma” March 12 (Fri) 2021 19:30 – 21:00 Venue: TERRADA ART COMPLEX Ⅱ 4F Drawers :Hiraku Suzuki,Daijiro Ohara,Abdelkader Benchamma,Kasetsu,Akiko Nakayama,Sohei Nishino,Mineki Murata,Yang02, NAZE(special guest) Visual technical support : Tomoya Kishimoto Sound design :Toshihiko Kasai An online drawing session spun simultaneously from pens…
Signals#29 Noriko Ambe
After becoming aware of the viewpoint of an “empty self,” in 1999, I began the line-works series by cutting or drawing. The action is simple, and the subtle natural distortions convey the nuances of human emotion, habits, or biorhythm. Because of this, I made sure that all works are made…
Signals#28 Nicole Lenzi
My art questions what a drawing is. I have been blogging about expanded drawing practices for years. After so many posts, I began to see drawings emerge all around me. Shadows were of particular interest. I began to document these temporal drawings on my iPhone, eventually calling them Sight Drawings. It felt important that…
Signals#26 Monika Grzymala
Last year my world has shrunken due to the global pandemic. Living in lockdown and not being able to travel for my work in other parts of the world an abrupt break and change of speed. Projects were postponed and cancelled. I had many quiet days in the studio. Everything…
Signals#23 Rodrigo Garcia Dutra
I’ve been wondering about how to access freedom in confinement. What I could experience is virtual freedom. A constant digitalization of whatever interaction we had with the outside world, or even the outside us. I wanted to break free from this. Recently, Rio de Janeiro beaches were put in restriction…
Signals#22 Akari Fujise
“I heard the quiet dismantling sound“ is a phrase that came to my mind immediately after I returned from London to Tokyo due to the Covid-19 pandemic. During my two-week home quarantine, I was looking at satellite photographs of Antarctica to find out where the sound was output. Not long…
Signals#18 Gary Warner
an exploratory exercise with my first-year drawing students at the National Art School in Sydney… outdoors, at a long narrow bitumen-surfaced circulation space between buildings on campus, students were asked to each select a socially-distanced location – their instruction was to stay on that spot and spend time drawing lines…
Signals#17 Vanessa Enríquez
“Fluctuations” is a series of spatial drawings that emerged from my experimentation with VHS tape as a drawing tool. Through the use of incremental repetition and the effects of gravity I unfold VHS tape in sequences of catenaries that generate drawings in space reminiscent of graphics depicting deformations of space-time.…
