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Drawing Tube

Drawing Tube is a new platform for recording, sharing, and conceiving alternative drawing research, discourse, and practice.

By the word “drawing” we mean something not limited to lines on planar surfaces, but rather the process of generating new lines or discovering invisible lines, in space and time, with all possible universal linear phenomenon as subject.

Dance might be making lines in space. Music might be making lines in time and pitch. Text might be making lines in language. Whether roads on maps, constellations in the night sky, the complexity of our anatomy, our world is often first apprehended through acts of making lines.

Drawing Tube will conduct an irregular series of events, lectures, and exhibitions, with the aim of making lines, and opening connecting “tubes”, between disciplines. Additionally, through presentations of the evolving archival record, we will work to elevate the fundamental discourse about the definition of drawing in the human history, within a perpetually changing exploration of the present and future tense of relational aesthetics.

The cylindrical plastic vessels we use to carry our works on paper are also called “drawing tubes”. And in this spirit, Drawing Tube will be a moveable laboratory, unbound to any one venue, but rather a portal tube of connection potential, each time assuming different shapes, forms, and locations. Drawing Tube will be like wormholes in time and space, a transparent worm traveling the surface of clear pond.

First we will begin by exploring the many portals in the opinions, and sensibilities of those around us. We hope to deserve your attention.

August 3, 2016
Hiraku Suzuki

Translation by David d’Heilly

鈴木ヒラク/アーティスト。1978年生まれ。東京芸術大学大学院美術研究科修了後、シドニー、サンパウロ、ロンドン、ニューヨーク、ベルリンなどの各地で滞在制作を行う。ドローイングを核として、平面/インスタレーション/彫刻/パフォーマンス/映像など多岐に渡る制作を展開。著書に『GENGA』などがある。現在、東京芸術大学大学院美術研究科非常勤講師。