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Welcome to the annual convention for Northern Drawing School, held in Lund at several locations the 20th to 24th of August. This years convention is focused on the relationship between drawing and language.
How difficult it is, though,
to refrain from replacing the thing with its sign,
to keep the object alive before us
instead of killing it with a word.
/JW Goethe
Written language is in many ways a limited system of communication, where holistic and specific understandings of our experience more often than not make way for arguments around generalised terms.
Our modern language use is in many ways useful, being easy to combine and able to refer to many things at once, but they come with the cost of lacking precision and specificity and marginalising those major parts of our experience not describable with words.
Going back to Goethe, we can also see that he proposed that drawing and not written language should be at the base for our scientific enterprises. Looking at the development of language, one can clearly see that drawing and depicting symbol systems came before the alphabets we use today, and we see drawing as a way of reclaiming the lost specificity and holism of understanding that so easily gets lost in the games of language.
Looking at shamanism as an early practice of cultural transformation, we can see that the vision plays the central role in the work of the shaman. Drawing in a similar way work as the visionary base for scientific and philosophic inquiry, a pool from where one can fish out many different perspectives.
This is what we want to explore at the Northern Drawing School NDS convention 2025 in Lund, together as NDS and with various scientific institutions at Lund University.
We have divided the convention in to three trails: 1 Writing, 2 Semiotics, and 3 Literature. Over the four days we will be conducting different workshops relating to language and drawing. Central to all three trails are different methods of drawing.
Looking at how the difference between analogue and digital drawing can influence the way we draw and how these drawing can be understood.
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Northern Drawing School is a collaboration between HDK Valand, KHiO Oslo, HfK Bremen, LMA Riga, EKA Tallinn, Lund University, Academie Gerrit Rietveld Amsterdam, Konstfack Stockholm, Aalto University, KASK Ghent, DDS Sulaymaniyah, Bauhaus Universität Weimar, Association of Swedish Illustrators and Graphic Designers, and Lund municipality.
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Schedule:
Workshops Thu-Sat 10:00–16:00 (Skissernas museum, Stenkrossen and Barn & ungas konsthall)
Lectures Wed-Fri 19:00–20:30 (Stadshallen)
Please sign up for the workshops with a mail to: [email protected]
Always free entry!
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20.8 Wednesday
Intro and registration at Skissernas Museum, drop in between 13:00-16:00
19:00 Welcoming by Ann Kristin Wallengren, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Culture and Pedagogical Development at Lund University and Mårthen Mirza, Head of culture, Lund Municipality
19:15 Presentation of NDS by the founders, Andreas Berg, professor of illustration at KHiO in Oslo and Samuel Nyholm, professor of illustration at HfK Bremen
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Workshops, 10:00-16:00 (announced more detailed as separate events)
21.8 Thursday
Literature trail: Barn & ungas konsthall
Semiotics trail: Skissernas museum
Writing trail: Stenkrossen
22.8 Friday
Literature trail: Stenkrossen
Semiotics trail: Barn & ungas konsthall
Writing trail: Skissernas museum
23.8 Saturday
Literature trail: Skissernas museum
Semiotics trail: Stenkrossen
Writing trail: Barn & ungas konsthall
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Lecture series, organised by Svenska Tecknare
In collaboration with: HfK Bremen, Lund University and
Teckningsmuseet i Laholm.
Stadshallen, Botulfshörnan
20.8 Wednesday, 19:30-20:30
Frida Talik, Teckningsmuséet i Laholm
21.8 Thursday, 19:00-20:30
Jordan Zlatev & Sara Lenninger, Cognitive Semiotics
22.8 Friday, , 19:00-20:30
Freja Erixån, Artist and designer
22.8 Friday, 21:00, SOL, Helgonavägen 3
Performance
Juana Bustamante, Artist
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Addresses:
Skissernas Museum: Finngatan 2, 223 62 Lund
Stenkrossen: Kastanjegatan 13, 223 57 Lund
Barn & ungas konsthall, Byggmästaregatan 2, 222 37 Lund
Lund Town Hall, Botulfshörnan, Stadshallen, Stortorget 9, Lund
Contact: [email protected]
Website: www.northerndrawingschool.net
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Skissernas Museum - Museum of Artistic Process and Public Art, Finngatan 2, SE-223 62 Lund, Sverige, Lund, Sweden
