Article:
Drawing light: Gesture and suspense in the weave

dc.creatorDe Brabandere, Nicole
dc.creatorThain, Alanna
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-27T15:52:34Z
dc.date.available2020-01-27T15:52:34Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractIn this essay, we remix the participatory gestures that emerged in and around Drawing Light, an experimental workshop that we developed in 2018 to explore what happens when illumination moves from a functionalist binary between the invisible and the visible, to become part of an affective charge that reorganises the relation between light and bodily presence, capture and dispersal, clarity and opacity. In other words, we explore the workshop’s propositional conditions that allowed participants to access the material supports of a cinematic experience – light and screens – in order to play with a gesturality in excess of the human, in order to develop a working concept of the ‘light gesture’. We begin by describing the workshop format. We then consider three selected movement ecologies of cinematic light and critical concepts from Suzanne Langer and Edouard Glissant that influenced the workshop design, to refine our sense of how light gestures are compositions with time, and to outline their ‘logic of feeling’. Finally, we revisit the workshop itself through a gestural catalogue, to consider how we re-choreographed these light gestures in collaboration with participants, to reopen the encounters which follow and draw out transversal weavings between ecologies, readings, and practice.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/13121
dc.identifier.urihttps://necsus-ejms.org/drawing-light-gesture-and-suspense-in-the-weave/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/14042
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectaffecten
dc.subjectdrawingen
dc.subjectgestureen
dc.subjectlighten
dc.subjectvisibilityen
dc.subjectAffektde
dc.subjectZeichnungde
dc.subjectGestede
dc.subjectGestikde
dc.subjectLichtde
dc.subjectSichtbarkeitde
dc.subject.ddcddc:704
dc.titleDrawing light: Gesture and suspense in the weaveen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcterms.bibliographicCitationNicole de Brabandere und Alanna Thain: Drawing light: Gesture and suspense in the weave. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies, Jg. 8 (2019) Nr. 2, S. 189–211. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/13121.
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local.coverpage2020-11-22T11:00:37
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://necsus-ejms.org/drawing-light-gesture-and-suspense-in-the-weave/
local.source.epage211
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitle#Gesture
local.source.spage189
local.source.volume8

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