Enstatic Drawing and Ecological Culture Within Collaboration

This article analyses several artworks applied as cases within current research (addressed as cases later in the article) by artists Marija Griniuk (LT), Jiří Kovanda (CZ), Darja Lukjanenko (UA), Jan Pfeiffer (CZ), and the curator Lenka Sýkorová (CZ) within the theme of embodied drawing. This study builds on diverse backgrounds and education traditions within drawing as a medium in the art academy environments of Ukraine, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic, and artists’ interpretations of this medium through the involvement of their bodies and sites in artwork creation by which the embodied drawing takes the shape of the intersection of drawing and performance, thereby shaping enstatic drawing. This study adopts an arts-based action research methodology in which each artwork is developed as a research cycle. Three research cycles are connected to individual artworks by the involved artists, and one research cycle surrounds their collaborative embodied drawing. The research problem outlines a collaborative approach to embodied drawing concerning the meeting of four diverse artists with different academic backgrounds from art academies, representing a broad range of approaches to drawing as an artistic expression. Through performative actions and discussions, the artists collaboratively create movement- and drawing-based interactions with nature and architecture.