Drawing Together is primarily a work about how the body has been fragmented by the development of high-speed transport and communication between distant spaces on the globe. Travelling within a city often entails a certain level of dissociation from one’s physical experience, the journey from A to B can often become automatic, the traveller having little conscious experience of the traversed space.

Inspired by the format of Japanese 15th century scrolls, Drawing Together is an attempt to create urban landscape drawings that reflect the separation between the physical and mental experiences of place in the contemporary world. Visitors to the Dislocate Festival in Tokyo are invited to take on the role of the mind, abstractly providing the intention and direction of travel. The artist in London then takes on the role of engaging with the physical aspects of the proposed journey, the use of the body, location, terrain and weather. The body and mind are thus separated geographically creating a fragmented global body that produces a drawing.

「Drawing Together」は高速移動手段や長距離間コミュニケーション技術の発達に伴う、肉体の崩壊をテーマとした作品です。世界がより速く、より小さな存在へと変化するにつれて、物理的な空間に依存した存在である肉体と、テクノロジーの進歩によって物理的制約から解放され、現実に対する感覚の抽象化が進む精神との間に葛藤が生じます。「Drawing Together」はこのような肉体と精神の乖離を都市風景のドローイングとして表現する試みです。参加者は地図から任意の経路を選び、それをロンドンにいる Juliana へ転送します。彼女は受け取った経路に可能な限り忠実にロンドンの街を歩き、その足跡をネット上に公開します。