Drawing from Impulse: 'Performing' Art

Research as performance might begin in the body, in an impulse. Then maybe an impulse to draw a system before it can be named. Mapping a feeling before it can be spoken. The notebook is the thinking itself. Diagrams become scores. Maps become instructions. The hand moving across the page rehearses the hand moving through space, through ritual, through encounter with another body.
Karpman's drama triangle (victim, perpetrator, rescuer) is reimagined - becomes a cosmology. The sephiroth migrate onto the human form. A pinball machine becomes a divination device. The drawing is a first performance of an idea.

What do you draw before you know what you're making?

1. Reinventing the Wheel
miniature dice and toy keys held in a fist. open the hand and analog implements score themselves on a screen.

2. Body Memory Palace. Mapping the sephiroth on the body — images from a dream lexicon.

3. Pinball Wizard
a pinball machine as divination device. remember the future. play the game your body intends. non-binary bonus.

4. Faster than a speeding bullet: Collage , bullets and neon, Neo.

5. Obatala — He's Here!
coloring with The Chicken Man.

6. Pope Show storyboard
scrying, a request for quiet. Three characters: pope, magician, high priestess.

7. Movement score cutouts
with paper.

8. Queer Flaneuse
map of walking performance Descent into (In)Decency in Greenwich Park. queering time at the Prime Meridian.

9. Guru Rockstar Triangle
victim, devotee, rescuer, hater — rotating roles, same triangle.

10. My Magic Wand
Maria Nossa Mãe. smoky quartz. passa na frente.