Lotta Stöver*Drawing with 20 000 Volts* will happen tomorrow 10:00 at SVITAVA transmedia art lab in Brno, CZ.
https://svitava.org/udalost/workshop-lotta-stover-drawing-with-20-000-volts/
In this workshop we will sketch, doodle, draw, inscribe, engineer and overall un/determine traces on copper boards for them to become places where high voltage spark gaps can occur.
The introduction for the workshop will consist of a brief (not so objective, and rather poetic) historical account of pre-modern electricity, a rough and incomplete visiting of contemporary electric arts, and an introduction to a self-built high voltage generator, inspired by the 19th century influence machine design. -- The practical part is an invitation to experimental hand drawing of unconventional traces on copper boards. This may take the shape of an alternative dogma of irrational trace routing, a quick doodle, a comic, a piece of electrify-able writing, … whatever you may come up with! By applying the drawings with an etch-resistive marker, in an etching bath we can then selectively remove the unwanted copper. This leaves us with an etched copper version of the inscribed drawing. Lastly, we can start experimenting with applying high voltage sparks to our copper drawings.
Which shapes let the high voltage dis/charge behave in which way? How far can 20 000 Volts „jump“ or arc across copper gaps? What unexpected poetics can we notice – or where are your drawings resonating with how the discharging sparks occur?
A main goal of the workshop is to develop a notion of electric energy that expands beyond mere fuel as „pure exergy“, and instead looks at electricity as a wildly expressive medium and phenomenon in itself.
Thank you so much for the invitation SVITAVA transmedia art lab and Jiří Suchánek :) ! ⚡
Robin Bannks
AZcoigreach
Oli
thomaselectric
Roger
