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ANCHORAGE: a phenomenology of outline (2017)

Joe Graham, Steven Dickie, Chantal Faust

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'ANCHORAGE' constitutes a collaborative piece of phenomenologically inspired drawing research, undertaken by artists Joe Graham, Steven Dickie, and Chantal Faust. Comprising forty drawings plus a written text, the objective is to ‘outline’ an understanding of the phenomenon of outline, described in an effort to overcome the traditionally definitive descriptions of it that abound (Rawson 1987; Maynard 2005; Thomas and Taylor 2003). In this respect, it constitutes both a relocation and an online extension of an earlier stage to the project, published in print: 'ANCHOR' (2015). In outlining an alternative form of reply to the earlier question (what is an outline?), the purpose of 'ANCHORAGE' is to revisit what was left uninspected or simply assumed; namely, whether an invariant understanding of outline in relation to drawing as a form of art might sensibly be defined. To address this notion, a variety of hand drawn ‘outlines’ by Graham, Dickie, and Faust are supplied for analysis, using original material from 'ANCHOR' as a guide. As lead investigator, the text by Graham seeks to unpack these variations as a part of a Husserlian-inspired methodology (Husserl [1950] 1999). This is geared towards seeking what an essential or perhaps even ‘truthful’ understanding of outline might look like, contingent on the drawings presented here.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsdrawing, drawing research, variational practice, phenomenology
date01/01/2016
published06/01/2017
last modified06/01/2017
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationThe Royal College of Art
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/254758/254759
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.254758
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue12.


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