THE ARTISTS

|

THE CURATOR

|

THE PARTNERS

|

THE HUB

|

THE SUPPORT

|

TO CONTACT

PERIPHERAL MEETINGS

The peripheral meetings are planned to include different focus groups along with academicians. These one day meetings will also evaluate the progress of the project.

CrossSections Stockholm Peripheral Meeting
Konstfack - University College of Arts, Crafts and Design (18.04.2018)

CrossSections Project and A Case Discussion with Nikolaus Gansterer
by Basak Senova and Nicolaus Gansterer

How to do things with lines and what do lines do with you? Drawing between the lines of connection, lines of distinction,
lines of deviation

The first peripheral Meeting was realized at Konstfack - University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. In this meeting, Basak Senova first introduced and briefly talked about the research strains and the structure of the project. Then, she will had discussion with Nikolaus Gansterer by navigating through his practice.

The discussion focused on the links between drawing, thinking and action. Accordingly, Gansterer gave insight in recent research and exhibition projects and his understanding of the notion of expanded drawing.

Gansterer’s practice is grounded in a trans-medial approach, underpinned by conceptual discourse in the context of performative visualisation and cartographic representations. In form of installations and performances he traces the translatability of phenomena of perception into an artistic environment. Gansterer understands the processes of thinking and drawing as analogous. He is thus concerned with the fundamental question of how to translate processes of thought, and explores how the act of drawing can become a tool of communication. To approach the materiality of perception Gansterer applies a unique performative grammar, in which the artist’s flow of observations in relation to his environment manifest as captivating live drawings, diagrams and arrangements. He questions how these situative constructions of meaning could be expanded towards a radical autopoiesis or even sympoiesis: where a line of thought becomes a line on paper, turns into a line in space, and then again a line articulated with the whole body or transforms into an object. In these trans-medial works, he focuses on mapping ephemeral and emergent processes unfolding their immanent structures of interconnectedness, questioning the imaginary threshold between nature and culture, art and philosophy.