What particularly resonated with me was a reference to Dorothea Rockburne.
"Where writing and drawing diverge, is that drawing is, in its embodiment, performative: it demands 'presence' rather than effacement. It demands that the artist is not only witness but also participant. Indeed, here drawing may be closest to dancing.
Dorothea Rockburne studied both art and dancing whilst at Black Mountain College during the early 1950's. She says:
"Drawing is as fundamental to my art making as my skeleton is to my body. Drawing is the bones of my thought". and
"I am doing the things to the material that when I danced I did to my body".
I immediately made a link with my own practice and instantly an association. Over many years I have often danced in prominent public spaces, sometimes alone, sometimes with family. I have danced in Central Park New York, on the Staten Island Ferry, on the famous suspension bridge at Cuenca in Spain, in the mountains of Castilla La Mancha, Spain, on the island of Kolocep, Croatia, in the house/art gallery of Vlaho Bukovac, the most renowned Croatian artist who lived and worked in Cavtat, Croatia. The last two (dances) I have recorded in video format which I was planning to upload to this blog. Unfortunately, my new camera was set on 12:9 aspect ratio when they were recorded and it appears they can only be viewed in horizontal format. You can see them on Youtube, just search Drawing and Dancing Jane Eaton - you will probably get a crick in your neck.
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I am planning to make drawings of each video which I will upload at a later date.
Dorothea Rockburne's work from her "Drawing Which Makes Itself" exhibition of 1972 is currently being rexamined at MOMA - September 2013 through to January 2014.
Below is an image from this exhibition.
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