Dr. Bart Geerts public lecture „Daily Drawing Things You Don't Understand“
Time: Thursday, December 11, 4 p.m.
Place: Vilnius Academy of Arts, 102 auditorium, building C1 (Malūnų str. 3, Vilnius)
During the talk I will introduce my daily drawing practice as a way of thinking that is not aimed at articulating specific knowledge or insights. Instead, the focus is on the act and pleasure of drawing in its own right. Drawing as a conversation with myself and the world around me, without the need to represent or picture either of them. To find out what can be learned from that, I will look into other people’s daily practices. Often these practices (things like diary writing, sketching, snapshot photography, and note-taking) are looked upon as minor practices, less important than the real work (something like a novel, a painting, or a theory). However, they have some qualities that are to be cherished in artistic research. Often, they are unfiltered, direct, playful, without clear purpose, and engaging. Things you do not or cannot fully understand offer room for thought, dialogue, and conversation; things to build upon the next day and the day after.
Bart Geerts (Belgium, 1978) is an artist, researcher and educator who creates spaces in which looking, making, and thinking enter into dialogue with each other. He has a special interest in spatial (re)presentation models, the performative potential of visual work, the rhetoric of artistic research and drawing as a research method. Geerts holds MAs in Germanic Philology and Fine Arts and completed the postgraduate course at the HISK in Antwerp. In 2012 he obtained his practice-based PhD on the painterly, an exploration of the contemporary potential of painting. Currently he is Assistant Professor at LUCA School of Arts and at the Higher Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven (both in Belgium).
