The Production of Performative Drawings for Studying Spaces of Everyday Life

Abstract

This article is part of the author’s doctoral thesis on ‘performative drawing’ in artistic research. It focuses on researching the spaces of everyday life using the ‘multi-perspective + live performance’ drawing method. First, this article briefly describes the theoretical development from the term ‘performative utterance’ to ‘performative urbanism’, ‘performative research’, and finally to ‘performative drawing’. Then, based on several examples of ‘performative drawings’ conducted by the author in villages in Austria and China, the specific production steps of the ‘performative drawing’ process are demonstrated in detail. Finally, the text describes means of observing, analysing, and recording the spaces of everyday life through the drawing process and offers information on creating an artistic research text based on graphic language.