When do you draw alone, alongside, or with another? When do you draw against them? How do you place questions through drawing? How does the line move through the shared space you occupy? When two people draw together, what do they reveal to each other?
Two meotars – two people drawing.
This research drawing workshop explores drawing as a tool for mutual perception, communication, and spatial reading. Two artists, situated in separate locations, work simultaneously—each at their own meotar—yet their images combine into a shared projection. This creates an intermedial space where two gazes, two presences, and two physicalities meet within a single shared visual layer.
The workshop is built around the concept of “reading” – being present with what is, before naming it. Drawing here does not serve to represent the visible, but to capture perceptual processes and map the subtle relational dynamics occurring between two participants and their environment. Through mutual responsiveness, overlapping, and the collision of lines, the drawing becomes a signaling system—a space for communication, reading, and transformation.
This experiment also serves as a research framework, connecting tacit (embodied) knowledge, bodily gestures, and intuitive reactions. The resulting drawing is more a trace of the process than a finished artwork—a document of mutual “listening” through hand movement, light, and space.
Keywords / Guiding Actions:
Co-aim / Flow-through / Reach-out
Co-aim / Flow-through / Reach-out
"It was difficult to “speak” within the image while also being aware of the whole picture. I also discovered that when I focused on Jirka’s line, my own lines formed into unintended shapes. This is probably due to my own schemas, as I felt compelled to bridge Jirka’s line, jump over it, frame it, or surround it with the environment.
Questions: How is it that my lines ended up forming faces?
What seemed key to me: not to speak to Jirka as if I were telling him specific things, but to try to guide his gaze and create an environment, showing the path for his line, even while following it myself."
Metoděj Kincler
Participants: Metoděj Kincler, Jiří Vaněk, Artur Magrot a Hana Chmelíková
Workshop as a Performative Contribution of the Exhibition Objects of Language
by Lucie Nováčková, Hana Chmelíková, Ondřej Buddeus, Martin Netočný, and AMU – Book Me, AVU, Veletržní 61; October/November 2025
by Lucie Nováčková, Hana Chmelíková, Ondřej Buddeus, Martin Netočný, and AMU – Book Me, AVU, Veletržní 61; October/November 2025
Photos: Eliška Klimešová