Hufschmid, Elvira

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Elvira Hufschmid
Person Preferred Name
Elvira Hufschmid _none
Position
Faculty Member
Field of Activity
Aesthetic transformation
Interdisciplinarity
Transdisciplinarity
Enclosure of the Commons
Sensory drawing
Drawing
Website
https://www.elvirahufschmid.com/
https://leaningoutofwindows.org/
Email/Contact
ehufschmid@ecuad.ca
Department
Faculty of Culture + Community
Status
current
Affiliation Date
2014 to open end
Identifier (Other)
Elvira Hufschmid
Elvira Hufschmid is a queer migrant artist of European ancestry and a PhD candidate at Queen’s University’s Cultural Studies program, Kingston, ON. In her research, she applies an Aesthetic Transformation strategy to investigate settler narratives of colonial land enclosure. In 2020/21 and as a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, she facilitated a series of interdisciplinary workshops and conversations between artists and physicists, titled 'Understanding the World through Aesthetics', about the ways in which metaphor acts as a common code between the disciplines. Elvira has an extensive place-based conceptual drawing practice that emerges from a deeply felt (inter)-relationship with the living earth and a sensory approach of communicating with the other-than-human world. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, US, and taught as a Visiting Artist and a sessional faculty at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Vancouver, BC, and as a Guest Professor for ‘Artistic Transformation Processes’ at the Berlin University of the Arts, Germany. For the 2022 term, she will engage in a Teaching Fellowship in the Film and Media Department at Queen's University, Kingston, ON.

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Sensory Drawing, Lake Ontario, Kingston
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Image
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Notes on the back: Underwater woman touching everything that lives with her fine hair. (Photo credit: Chris Miner)
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Lake Ontario
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Sensory Drawing, Poke root, Kingston
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Notes on the back: a flying head, a black eye looking, eine Raupe / a caterpillar, eine Maus / a mouse, etwas kommt aus einer Aushöhlung heraus/something comes out of a cavity. (Photo credit: Chris Miner)
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Sensory Drawing, Poke root, Kingston
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Notes on the back: diarrhea, needs companion plants, brings the dead back to life, a face with a stalk in the mouth, small pieces of the plant can be eaten, a worm-like thing is swallowed, handing over a berry, come more often, drowning in red juice (blood?), older woman talking. (Photo credit: Chris Miner)
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Poke root, Kingston
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(Photo credit: Chris Miner)
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Chicoree, Kingston
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(Photo credit: Chris Miner)
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Sensory Drawing, Balsam Poplar, Peel River
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Notes on the back: an archer, a javelin thrower, a person holds an object similar to a spear, a leave being laid on a wound, two persons in a canoe, a boy laying on a horse (Photo credit: Chris Miner)
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Balsam Poplar, Peel River
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(Photo credit: Chris Miner)
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DGI Image Discovery Discovered Image
Sensory Drawing, Lake Ontario, Kingston
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Image
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Notes on the back: mighty snake, has underwater wings, spits fire. (Photo credit: Chris Miner)
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Communicating with Plants and Place through Sensory Drawing
Content type
Compound Object
Description / Synopsis
Sensory drawing is the aesthetic practice of recording a cognitive process through tracing mental imagery that emerges in a different state of consciousness. Images are drawn with eyes closed as they appear in the mind’s eye while visiting distinct sites or while sitting across a plant. By blocking out the visual senses, sensory channels are opened up for intensified perception and the sketches evolve from the reverberation with a place or plants. The drawings are conceptual in nature as the mark making comes about as the outcome of a perceptual activity, not an act of physical seeing and representational depiction. Hence, the art practice embodies a post-humanist subject positioning that renders the subject of knowledge –the experiencing self– as embedded in the world and intertwined within a web of relations with non-human others(1). Through the potential emergence of unexpected elements beyond one’s own embodiment, the practice epitomizes a pattern of ‘thinking with’ (in a Haraway’s sense) or rather a ‘feeling-with’ when the world is sensed in its abundance of storied places and beings. The drawings visualize a multispecies attunement in form of a portray of intuitive communication and enchanted co-creation. Keywords: Sensory drawing, posthumanism, other-than-human, sympoiesis, conceptual drawing
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