Nicole Wendel's Drawing and Performance: Kinetic Exchanges

Nicole Wendel, Coredrawing (9/2020), graphite on paper, 200 x 154 cm, 2020

 

 Nicole Wendel, Coredrawing (10/2020), graphite on paper, 200 x 154 cm, 2020

Nicole Wendel CORHYTHM, 2019, performance setting: table 60 x 400 cm, chalkpieces, paper, concept: Nicole Wendel, performance: Johanna Ackva and Nicole Wendel, 24min, photo: Els de Witte, Drawing Centre Diepenheim, 2019

 The line is the operating instruction for the performance CORHYTHM. Charcoal pieces are moved back and forth on white paper, creating a sequence of movement that is caused by repetition. Out of the moment, following the line, a common navigation emerges, which creates a visual and acoustic rhythm. These qualities are remini­scent of archaic everyday actions and ritualized processes.

Nicole Wendel CORHYTHM, 2019, performance setting: table 60 x 400 cm, chalkpieces, paper, concept: Nicole Wendel, performance: Johanna Ackva and Nicole Wendel, 24min, photo: Els de Witte, Drawing Centre Diepenheim, 2019

 The line is the operating instruction for the performance CORHYTHM. Charcoal pieces are moved back and forth on white paper, creating a sequence of movement that is caused by repetition. Out of the moment, following the line, a common navigation emerges, which creates a visual and acoustic rhythm. These qualities are remini­scent of archaic everyday actions and ritualized processes.

Nicole Wendel, embodied lines (exhibitionview), series Open Cube, each: 21 x 29,7cm, graphite on paper, Drawing Centre Diepenheim, 2019/2020

Nicole Wendel, series Open Cube (selection), each: 21 x 29,7cm, graphite on paper, Drawing Centre Diepenheim, 2019/2020

Nicole Wendel, OPTIONS (exhibition view: Présence), 200 drawings, charcoal on paper, each 29.7 x 42 cm, 2017), L‘Espace d‘Art Contemporain, Colmar, 2017

Nicole Wendel, Rhythm & Turn (stills) HD-Video, 6 min., Drawing and Concept: Nicole Wendel, Camera and Editing: Daniel Meiner, 2017, https://vimeo.com/199715369

Starting with the arm movement oscillating between back and forth, left and right, in and out, the video shows the emergence of 8 drawings.

Nicole Wendel, ACHT [Eight] 2017, performance setting: black fabric 280 x 560 cm, 2 black panels 140 x 140cm, white chalk, concept: Nicole Wendel, performance: Nicole Wendel and Lea Pischke, sound: Yohei Yamakado, length: 28 min., TRAJECTORIES #01_New Drawing Embodiments, performance night on drawing and choreography, Haus am Lützowplatz, 2017 https://vimeo.com/245985130

For the performance ACHT [Eight] Nicole Wendel invited the dancer and choreographer Lea Pischke to develop with her a precise and continuous exchange between phases of drawing and walking. The kinetic energy of our performance permeates the act of drawing, and as a direct consequence the resulting lines are released into the space.

Nicole Wendel, ACHT [Eight] 2017, performance setting: black fabric 280 x 560 cm, 2 black panels 140 x 140cm, white chalk, concept: Nicole Wendel, performance: Nicole Wendel and Lea Pischke, sound: Yohei Yamakado, length: 28 min., TRAJECTORIES #01_New Drawing Embodiments, performance night on drawing and choreography, Haus am Lützowplatz, 2017 https://vimeo.com/245985130

For the performance ACHT [Eight] Nicole Wendel invited the dancer and choreographer Lea Pischke to develop with her a precise and continuous exchange between phases of drawing and walking. The kinetic energy of our performance permeates the act of drawing, and as a direct consequence the resulting lines are released into the space.

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A guiding principle of my work is the paradoxical attempt to

capture change visually. In the transfer of bodily and visual spatial

awareness, I explore the relationship between

movement in space and the emergence of a two-dimensional

image. The movement’s temporality manifests itself in the form

of manifold lines, which in turn can be read as a notation. In my

current drawing-performances, a dissolving temporality, a kind

of space within space, is experienced on a fundamental level.

The continuously repeating sequences generate an expansion

of time that is created and perceived not only via the actions of

the performers themselves, but also, in turn, by the audience’s

presence and perception.

Bio

Nicole Wendell, who studied with Leiko Ikemura at the

University of the Arts in Berlin, integrates drawing with

performance art. Her artistic research is grounded in

choreographic and improvisational training in the fields of dance

and performance as well as a somatic practice. In numerous

exhibitions at home and abroad she explores movement and

transformative qualities in the form of drawing, collaborative

performances, film, and photography. She lives with her family in

Berlin.