Wednesday, 23 October 2019

Lunchtime Lecture Series - Matthew Hodson

• Improvisation and drawing as performance

• My research is about drawing. Where drawing is used as primary image making for illustrator

• Interested in the common themes of drawing practices. carrying hand and voice of the maker

• Authorship, de-masking, truth, manifestation

• Always enjoyed the looseness of Quentin Blake, there's a performance and movement to his illustrations that is distinctive and immediately recognisable as a Roald Dahl book

• Drawing is simplest way of establishing vocabulary, instant personal declaration of what's important

• Drawing over and over and over. Repeating. Iterating. Mystery comes from practice. Playful, compulsive, experimenting, wonder, practice to unconscious skills, trading between conscious and unconscious.

• Identity, establish, incubate, stain, evolve

• Authenticity. Play, taking risks, experimenting, improvisation, experience and skill

• Style is not a trend, not a fixed outcome, not a tool. It's an emerging practice, organic, relationship

• Emerging from the unconscious. Improvisation is generative. Forms of culture. Accord. Relational, response certain duration. The thrill of making it up

• Creativity comes from interaction containing framework, containing rules of the symbolic domain, individual who innovates brings novelty to symbolic domain.

• We are born with two sets of contradicting instructions - conservative instincts, self-preservation, saving energy, solving rational problems that have a correct answer. Expansive tendency exploring, enjoying risks and novelty. Divergent thinking with no solution, generation of great quality of ideas, switching perspectives, unusual association of ideas.

• We can be whatever we want to be!

• Quality of the experience, do not worry about the end point. Novelty and discovery. Gets rid of challenging activities.

• Immediate feedback and clear goals every step of the way, balanced challenge and skills, action and awareness, no distractions, no worry of failure, distorts time.

• Intrinsic motivation feels good

• Technique is boring, permanent, solid. Become used to knowing and set in our ways. Dangerous! Loses playful spirit, rigid forms of professionalism.

• Galumphing, play energy. Activity in young animals, children, communities. Your practice. It's exaggerated and excessive. Teeming. Drawing and performance. 

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