Drawing as Slow Conversation

Publication (2024)

A Slow Conversation publication, created to mark the completion of The Writers’ Room residency. The booklet interweaves text and material based conversations developed throughout the residency contextualised in relation to process philosophy.










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Adkins and Jenner come together to ask questions of each other’s understanding of the limits of language and its interface with site, materiality and gesture. Their shared interest in scripting everyday exchanges between people, objects and the world has provided a platform to interrogate alternative routes to knowledge – how know-how can be written out of and into words. Such observations, they have discovered, require a type of time that is hard to come by. As a result, their time together orbits around strategies for implementing slowness in observation – a temporality that resonates with expanded forms of embodied drawing. Adkins and Jenner met whilst studying on the PhD program at the University of Leeds. In 2022 they founded Reading and Writing Bodies in Space (RWBS), a group of artists, writers, and researchers that convene around re-cognising the bodies relationship to knowledge through crip theory and disability studies. In spring 2024 RWBS facilitated Practice Notes #1 at The Project Space, University of Leeds. In autumn 2024 Adkins and Jenner completed Drawing as Slow Conversation at the Writers’ Room in London.