Tracing the Genealogical Self: Entanglements of drawing with Tim Ingold's Lines. Issue 2 (1st November 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Veryeri Alaca, Ilgım; Dinç, Betül Gaye
• Is Part Of: Drawing. Volume 4:Issue 2(2018)
• Page Start: 271
• Page End: 283
• Publication Date: 2019-11-01
• Subjects: Drawing -- Periodicals; 741.05
• DOI: 10.1386/drtp_00007_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2057-0392

Abstract

AbstractThe Genealogical Self Project is a component of a basic drawing course open to undergraduates from diverse disciplines and cultures, and engages students in critical drawing activities at Koç University, a liberal arts college in Īstanbul. By introducing a chapter from Tim Ingold's book, Lines: A Brief History, to the course, we aim to revisit the elements and processes that constitute drawing education, and what lines and mark-making mean in art and daily life. Thus, Tim Ingold's anthropological approach to elements of drawing opens a door to the expanded capacity of this art in general and invites students to interact with a text that handles parallel topics such as line. The project offers students an experimental way of building a drawing via inspiration from the text covered in the course and by inspiring them to base their work on myriad sources from their life going beyond drawing physical objects.