In his essay ‘Ralph Lemon’s Counter-Memorials’, Nicholas Burns praises the choreographer’s drawings for their ‘arresting facticity’ and compares them to the figures on ancient Greek geometric vases, in how they: provide information, as well as the artist’s own perspective on it, inexpressible otherwise. Lemon’s practice of what he calls ’empirical performance formalism’ means that the […]
Dani Leventhal (OSU Dept. of Art) and I have just found out that our proposal for an OSU Humanities Institute Pilot Working Group has been accepted for this Semester.The group is called Rough Draft and will explore the theory and practice of incorporating contemporary practices of the visual methods of drawing, mapping and diagramming in […]
Dani Leventhal, Untitled, 1999 This startling quotation comes from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Essay on the Origin of Language, which I stumbled across while idly leafing through Jacques Derrida’s Memoirs of the Blind. The statement is a reference to the famous anecdote about the origin of drawing or painting that was first described by Pliny the Elder […]