Instructor: Juliana Russo
Location: Casa da Cultura
What’s a “Portrait Drawing Round Robin” and how does it work?
Participants get together for a few hours to create portrait drawings of each other and construct a wall sized portrait “matrix” of the completed drawings: portraits of the participants shown horizontally, portraits by them vertically.
Lots of things go on in this process and the completed grids are truly mesmerizing. The Round Robins create a unique kind of group portraiture that turns the traditional power relationships of portraiture on their head.
Works like this: all participants draw each others and self-portraits (in the mirror). In the end, everyone has drawn a same-size portrait of everyone else, including all the self-potraits.
We’ll need:
• two hours
• groups of five to twenty interested people
How long a Round Robin lasts depends on the number of participants making each grid and the length of time set aside for each drawing. For example, a table of five persons making 10-minute drawings will take 100 minutes to create a grid of 25 portraits.
More about it: http://vimeo.com/64446697
