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Art Forum, Visiting Artist, Drawing and Print Media Department, School of Art
Print Media and seminar room | Australian National University, Canberra
26 March 2015
Kellie O’Dempsey + Jaanika Peerna (Estonia/NY)
Collaborative drawing performance at Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 2015.
Jaanika Peerna: movement drawings by hand.
Kellie O’Dempsey: drawing and digital via projections (light drawings) that would draw on existing spaces between the works, connecting them in response to Jaanika’s performance.
Collaborating through performance drawing, Jaanika Peerna (Estonia/NY) and Kellie O’Dempsey (Australia) exchange directives like weather patterns; lines build and change embodying a shared experience. This international collaboration connects directly in the expanding fields of live drawing. Jaanika describes her force as connected to nature, the natural phenomena of the self. Where Kellie work is site-generated, responding directly to Jaanika’s performance and the space via the ephemeral light drawings that build, move and disappear.
Photographers • Kellie O’Dempsey and Jaanika Peerna