Ram Samocha is an international artist and the director and curator of ‘Draw to Perform’. The program really stands out as there is not a lot of opportunity to focus on drawing performance in particular, so this was a beneficial experience to meet him and to learn about all the draw to performs that have taken place up to date. It was a really great honour to be chosen and supported to experience what was only the 2nd draw to perform residency that has taken place. It was interesting to see the outcomes from the first draw to perform and how the program is developing in this still beginning stages. The residency provided more opportunity for experimentation and development that can suit whatever stage an artist is with performance, drawing and movement. This experience provided an opportunity to change your practice through new mediums and environments.
Workshops with Ram Samocha.
1. Making a mark without making a mark.
2. Presentations
3. Flat mike sound drawing and sound
4. Metal point/ sound
1. -from the first work shop you could really see in such a simple action where we were coming from and what we were here to do, it was an interesting outcome.
2. -the presentations of everyone’s work was an important activity as performance was a new subject for some of the artists. It; was good to see how they had come to incorporate performance in to their work and why. For Bin coming from China and the great fire wall of China it was the first time that the other artists on the residency had access to her work.
3. -Flat Mike introduction was very exciting for me. I had considered having a sound aspect to my work however did not know how it would be possible with out it being too invasive. Due in the work shop with time to experiment I made discoveries.The first was that the mike could pick out up hair sound the second I was rubbing wax crayons when they ran out I was using my nails to scratch the wax and made tactile material out of this and realised that the flat Mike would make a very interesting sound when you sprinkled this material, Ram referred to it as rain.
4. -Metal point on marble paper was a new medium and experience for me. It was very exciting to watch the paper take on a structure. I would very much like to experiment with this In the future.
images by Ram Samocha.
