Playdate #4
This one-hour playdate was conceived as a collective act of unlearning: a temporary suspension of skill, authorship, and outcome-led making. Drawing on artistic influences such as Cy Twombly’s gestural mark-making, children’s art practices, and the refusal of productivity and polish, the session prioritises play, mess, and bodily engagement over representation.
By working at scale on newsprint fixed to floors and walls, participants were encouraged to abandon the upright, controlled posture of “proper” drawing and instead move, sprawl, respond, and interrupt.
BEFORE
The intention is not to produce finished images, but to create a permissive space where marks can be excessive, ugly, fleeting, or unresolved. Through shared surfaces, rule-breaking tools, and absurd prompts, the playdate aimed to quiet the internalised voice of judgement and reframe drawing as an exploratory, social, and childlike act — one rooted in curiosity rather than competence.
AFTER