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Where language ends: Antony Gormley’s discourse series

A documentary on the 'Unravel' art project, where the UK public create a 16 hour-long, 16mm film using only hand-drawn marks - which create the images *and* the sound. 

What happens when sound is drawn with light by hand and moving images are created on the fly?

Drawing Sound With Light

David Drazil is a young architect and artist from the Czech Republic, based in Prague. He has a  passion for visual presentation of architecture; he shares tips & tricks on architectural sketching and creates freebies and educational resources on how to #SketchLikeAnArchitect. He is an online teacher, author, external lecturer AND the founder of SketchLikeAnArchitect.com. He has an engaging community of over 90,000 only on Instagram currently, and has thousands of students taking his sketching courses.

He helps architects, designers, and sketchers use sketching as a tool for understanding, developing, and presenting their ideas. 
During the conversation, we talk about how and why he started Sketch Like An Architect: how through consistency and passion, he developed an extremely compelling platform for students to understand and feel comfortable sketching. David gives amazing pieces of advice on how to become better at sketching and designing, on how to stop being afraid of failure and how to be more productive and develop faster ideas through sketching. We talk about how design should be more about people and the relationship they have with one another, and not so much on the building. This is an extremely interesting conversation, one you definitely do NOT want to miss! Let the talk begin.

02 / How Can Sketching Make Us Better Designers?

Our panel, chaired by art critic, writer & curator, Sacha Craddock, and including Alistair Hudson, Director of the Whitworth and Mariam Zulfiqar, Deputy Director and Chief Curator at UP Projects, questions where sculpture is best exhibited and what impact sculptures have on the spaces they are presented in. Do sculptures act as catalysts for social change and can people connect better with a place when it contains a work of art?

Part of 'Where language ends: Antony Gormley’s discourse series'.

What is sculpture good for?

Antony Gormley discusses his career spanning over 40 years and explores how his series of installations within the RA’s Main Galleries encouraged visitors to slow down and become aware of their own bodies and environment.

Part of 'Where language ends: Antony Gormley’s discourse series'.

Anthony Gormley in conversation with Director of the Whitechapel Gallery, Iwona Blazwick

Theoretical astrophysicist, Priya Natarajan, joins Semiconductor, the artist duo Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt, to discuss how artists contribute to our understanding of the world around and the relationship between physics, cosmology and art.

Part of 'Where language ends: Antony Gormley’s discourse series'.

Understanding space through art

Anthropologist and director of the documentary 'Inside Australia', Hugh Brody discusses how geology, anthropology and humankind’s connection with the land are represented in Gormley’s work.

Hugh Brody on his documentary 'Inside Australia' and the work of Antony Gormley

24 August 2019 (Juhani Pallasmaa, The Multi-Sensory Essence Excerpt)

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Understanding space through art

Royal Academy of Arts