Workshop Drawing Machines

Description

Each participant brings back at least one machine from their daily life, preferably one that is faulty or useless. Then we take it apart and discover what’s hidden inside: motors, cables, mechanisms and so on.

Once everything is dismantled, we reassemble and hybridize the machines together, creating machines that move, scream and draw. Participants are invited to try out different drawing tools and different formats/supports to suit the needs of their machines.

Instructor

Élie Bolard is developing a practice centred on contemporary technologies, looking at how they work and the monopoly of technical knowledge. His installations and sculptures are a blend of clumsy DIY and industrial language. All these installations are motorised and intrinsically sonorous: the electronics are visible and the mechanisms are audible. These machines echo a standardised world where gesture is omnipresent. Automation plays an essential role in his work, both from a theoretical and critical point of view and from a visual point of view. These machines, endowed with their own intelligence and reactions, lead the viewer to consider them as beings in their own right. Everything is in motion, everything is alive, but the human being is no longer invited in, or is reduced to the status of producer.

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Photos and videos: Élie Bolard