This panel brings together two international queer artists whose practices centre around the traces of lives, bodies and experiences. Coco Guzman is a Spanish-Canadian artist (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia), using drawing to convey experiences of haunting and systematic violence. Their paper gives an overview of two projects that used drawing to investigate traces in queer archives, one in Mexico City at the trans cultural centre Centro Borders, and the other at Eastern Edge Gallery in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. Maurice Moore’s (University of California-Davis) work explores how Black queer people have employed modes of performance as a survival strategy. They use their own body as a ‘living drawing’ to makes traces across surface, time and space. Moore will explore how Black performance serves as a mode of active radical resistance, drawing upon traditions of ‘throwing shade’ and African-American Vernacular English. The event will be chaired by Daniel Fountain, practice-led researcher at Loughborough University.

The event will take place via Microsoft Teams, attendees will be sent a link nearer to the time of the event.

The Drawing Research Network Temporal Drawing Events have been organised by staff and PhD researchers from the Drawing Research Group at Loughborough University, chaired by Deborah Harty. The series of events aim to explore the notion of temporal drawing. By temporal drawing we suggest that temporality is not only inherent in drawing, both as process and as a product, but also as its fundamental condition. Speakers for each of the events have been selected to offer differing perspectives of themes emerging in response to the call for papers around the notion of temporal drawing. Other events in the series include:

‘Staging Drawing’ 17th February 2021 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/135473568089 ‘Stillness and Motion’ 24th March 2021 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/drn-temporal-drawing-stillness-and-motion-tickets-139555312697 ‘Experience’ 21st April 2021‘Diagrams’ 19th May 2021 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/drn-temporal-drawing-diagrams-tickets-139616862795 ‘Queer Traces’ 9th June 2021