The Sketch: A Promise of Dialogue
Summary
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Sketch
Spring Summer 2018
These various modes, which we convene under the term sketch, have a common preparatory function and consequently, a status of incompletion. The sketch leads to a wide range of strategies and gives rise to new research on the materiality, temporality, and spatiality of a work. To do this, it still takes the traditional route of drawing, painting, and sculpture, and sometimes of new technologies, while also referring to the outline of a movement or a brief posture. Therefore, we designed this issue to reflect the abundance of possibilities and deliberately break away from an essentially discipline-based approach to drawing, focusing instead on the creative intention found in the sketch and the fluctuations of its outcomes.
Editorial
Feature
Drawing Lines
The Sketch Artist: Interview with François Morelli
Drawing Inuit Satiric Resilience: Alootook Ipellie’s Decolonial Comics
The Sketch in the Work of Frances Stark, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Sue Tompkins
Sketchy Machines: Propositions Around Three Robotic Artworks
Praxis of the Unfinished
Being Brief
Portfolios
Columns
Reviews
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Immersion
Winter 2026
This issue is interested in all forms of immersion in contemporary art. How are artists critically engaging with immersive technologies? Conversely, what kinds of practices are challenging technology in their pursuit of immersion? How are these experiences breaking down the boundaries between spectator, body, and art? We put forward proposals that rely on listening and sustained attention rather than on amplification and sensory overload – works using devices that are sometimes relatively simple and non-invasive, sometimes a little more elaborate, but in which participation is, with a few nuances, neither passive nor devoid of critical thinking.
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Photo: Cléo Sjölander, courtesy of the artists