Call and Response: Ensemble of Live Animated Drawing and Painting
This seminar proposes a hybrid laboratory to explore drawing and painting as time-based arts. Through practices of ensemble work, projection, and real-time animation, the seminar invites participants to compose live through dialogue, listening, and improvisation, integrating plastic/physical materialities and digital resources.
The seminar is conceived as a scenic ensemble laboratory centered on the real-time animation of freehand marks and the live mixing of digital color, integrating the use and exploration of open-source technologies developed in dialogue with these languages. From this perspective, drawing and painting are approached as ephemeral and process-based practices that transform live, articulating the temporal and interpersonal dimensions of line and color through collective composition methodologies based on dialogue, listening, and the formalization of shared codes.
The proposal is inspired by the “call and response” logic of jazz improvisation, translated into the field of live visual arts, and is oriented toward building ensemble compositions through improvisation guidelines, scripting, editing, and staging. In a hybrid format, the in-person component prioritizes work with projections and materialities: analog and digital projections, projection onto plastic material and unconventional supports, irregular surfaces, architecture, changes of scale, distortion, and moving projection, directing these explorations toward the staging of a live visual work. The virtual component complements this with technical training in real-time animation, improvisation and temporal composition practices, analysis of references, and follow-up on each participant’s process, integrating conceptual frameworks in an applied way. The program culminates in a final performative presentation with process documentation.
