Workshop EXPERIMENTAL DRAWING by Emily Hunt

“DAY 1: The Psychogeograhic Industriebahn
Psychogeography is essentially the study of the ‘psychology of place’. Why are we drawn to certain places? How do certain places affect us in a profound way? Be that positively or negatively. The best real world example of a negative outcome is Hostile Architecture – examples being bars on windows, barbed wire on fences, and some bureaucratic places, like jails, airport security. This course will focus on an action or movement, something which we do everyday but usually in a state of unawareness. It is an exercise, a practice, a mode of thought. We can think of this exercise as being “Embodied Walking”. This is a constructive behaviour with an awareness of the effect the city is having on you. The Situationists – led by Guy Debord understood this emotional mapping of the city as a rebellious act against the urbanisation and gentrification of the city. We will be using the Industriebahn location as our source for mapping, locating significant personal responses to place. The lecture will cover the history of psychogeographical drawn and collaged maps, looking at contemporary drawing practice in particular. We will be creating a drawn map that reflects the experience of looking at the Industriebahn with new eyes and using this sense to reflect on our experience of being in the larger city of Berlin.

DAY 2: Drawing and Artists’ Books
The course will provide a short introduction to the history and contemporary use of artist books in drawing, printmaking and collage. The lecture will begin by covering surrealist artist books and investigate current contemporary artist books, occasionally referred to as ‘zines’. Producing and selling zines is one of the best ways to create an artwork to be seen by a larger audience, without the restrictions of applying to galleries or installing exhibitions. In this course you will collaborate with the whole class and design eight complete individual publications consisting of 8-pages each. The theme of each zine will be decided by each participant at the beginning of class. This is an exercise of collaboration. The one-off book can be narrative based, without words, or non-fiction, though it must be constructed entirely from drawings produced in class. You must decide on one evocative word for the theme. You may use handwritten text as well and collage elements throughout.” (Text by courtesy of Emily Hunt)

Emily Hunt (b. 1981) lives and works in Berlin since 2017. Hunt has been running Big Ego Books since 2015. She was the co-Dictator of DUKE Magazine, an artist magazine focusing on Australian artists and thrift culture between 2005-2009. She has shown extensively in Australia since 2012, including at the Museum for Contemporary Art Sydney, First Draft, Casula Powerhouse, UTS Gallery, Artspace, Bundanon Trust, UQ Art Museum, KNULP and The Commercial gallery.Her work is held in collections that include The Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art (CCWA), Artbank, and Manly Art Gallery. She was awarded Marten Bequest Scholarship for Painting (2015), and Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant (2017), with two grants from Australia Council for the Arts (2014 & 2019). Her work has recently been shown at the Arp Museum Remagen, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Zitadelle Spandau (ZAK) and Sim Smith Gallery, London. In 2020 Hunt was selected as a participant in the Goldrausch Künstlerinnen Projekt. In 2021, Hunt’s first solo exhibition in Berlin opened at Galerie Wedding.

More information on the Emily Hunt Website.