The Drawing on Stage seminars take place at Naza, a studio located in the Chacarita neighborhood of Buenos Aires. They have an intensive format, lasting one day. Each module presents a different approach to investigating the practice.
Drawing on Stage is a laboratory for exploring the narrative forms that arise from real-time animation of freehand strokes. Drawing is approached as a time-based art, intervening in physical space through projections, and engaging in cross-disciplinary dialogue with audiovisual arts, animation, and performing arts such as music, dance, and theater.
Info and registration: marcelarapallo@gmail.com
The first session, "Module 1," explores proposals for examining the foundations of language and will be the first in a series of modules focused on different disciplines and practices for developing scenic drawing.
Participants are introduced to live animated drawing technologies during the sessions: Andiamo, Trazos Club, and Tagtool. Training exercises are conducted, references are shared, and participants are supported in the development of project ideas, considering possibilities for integrating with other languages such as live video mixing, video editing, various animation techniques, scenic languages, and collective participatory practices.
The proposal has been developed based on the coordinator's experience in these areas, encompassing the creative processes of performance works, educational projects, cultural mediation, and the development of Free Software technologies.
No previous knowledge is required to participate in the workshop. The explored language can be integrated into the practices of artists from various disciplines: visual artists, digital artists, musicians, VJs, animators, audiovisual artists, performers, technicians, educators, programmers, etc.
MODULES 2024 / DRAWING ON STAGE / NAZA STUDIO
MODULE #1 ABC DRAWING ON STAGE
Explorations on the narrative potential of real-time animated drawing through various ways of animating strokes, interacting with others, and intervening in physical space.
MODULE #2 DRAWING ENSEMBLE
Starting from dialogue and improvisation guidelines taken from different time-based arts, a collective composition is built, forming a live drawing ensemble.
MODULE #3 VISUAL MUSIC
Exploring the concept of visual music through real-time animated drawing, in a back and forth of listening with ears and eyes.
MODULE #4 DANCING STROKES
Based on dance exercises, explore paths of gestural drawing. Drawing live as if dancing through strokes, taking drawing as a movement art.
MODULE #5 DRAWING DRAMATURGY
Narrating a scene through drawing. Improvising, rehearsing, and scripting live drawing, projected in space, and in dialogue with the different elements of the theatrical scene.
MODULE #6 MOVING MURAL
Intervention of a 360-degree space combining digital and analog drawings, using overhead projectors and other light sources.
MODULE #7 DIGITAL PUPPETS
Exploring the platforms Andiamo and Tagtool, delve different paths to draw and animate a character live. Designing, rehearsing, tracing, and giving live movement.
MODULE #8 DRAWING JOCKEY
Introducing real-time animated drawing into a VJ session. Incorporating freehand digital strokes into live video, drawing on moving canvases, and effects.
History
The "Drawing on Stage" laboratory is developed in a particular way in different spaces and also as a postgraduate seminar at the National University of the Arts. The first presentations of the workshop were at Puerta 18 (Abasto, Buenos Aires, 2011), at the Expin Medialab Workshop (Cali, Colombia, 2012), at the ACTI Theater Festival (Bogotá, Colombia, 2013), and as part of the Matienzo Cultural Club Training project (2014/2016). The workshop was developed virtually at the Multinational Workshop in Mexico (2015). The Drawing on Stage laboratories have been developed since 2016 in interdisciplinary workshops as part of the implementation of the Digital Education Plan in public schools belonging to the Directorate of Artistic Education (Ministry of Education of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires).
