This series of online events aims to explore the relationship between Drawing and Storytelling. Drawing begins where words cannot reach, and storytelling begins when images ask to be read.

In an era where visual culture and narrative structures are constantly being redefined, drawing is no longer merely a means of documentation or representation. It can be a mode of expression, a pathway of thought, and above all, a generative process. Storytelling, too, can transcend textual boundaries to become a fluid, multimodal experience. Perhaps they are less separable than tradition insists. A drawing is not merely a picture: it can be the residue of movement, the memory of a body thinking. A story is not simply language: it can work as a choreography of images, a spatial arrangement of scenes that fold into one another. Perhaps, then, Drawing and Storytelling share a mutuality. Perhaps both are acts of unfolding and refolding. Both can contain gestures of the other, and both can carry what the other cannot say.

Therefore, we ask: What can be made possible in the space of storytelling and drawing?

Each session of presented papers aims to provide a space for discussion, dissemination, and the exchange of knowledge. With the intention of promoting fertile interactions that explore this conceptually rich terrain, we suggest the following as starting points and as possible themes, prompts and provocations:

• When does a drawing begin in Storytelling?
• How does drawing make visible the paragraphs that elude verbal articulation?
• Does the generative incompletion of drawing open a Storytelling space of its own?
• How does a story change when it begins as a drawing rather than as language
• How does the pulse of drawing converse with the cadence of Storytelling in generating    meaning?
• How can text and image be dissolved into a hybrid language that transcends the limitations of the medium?
• In the interval between drawing and Storytelling, might there be a nascent mode of language coming into formation?

Each event will take the form of 2/3 presentations, which address the call’s theme, followed by a Q&A session. We would like to invite proposals for a 20-minute presentation which addresses the theme from practitioners, theorists, and practitioner-researchers. 

To apply please submit a single Word .docx document, named/labelled as follows: 

Surname – Forename – Presentation title.

Your submission must include the following:

• 250-word abstract detailing your research question and proposed presentation.
• 50-word biography.
• 2 supportive images of personal practice {if appropriate).
• Link to a personal website (if appropriate}.

If you would like to make a submission, you can do so HERE!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eXI9pgST1gmvykGc6Tw07w0Nj8n8A89dsmDJa01EoOM/edit