Drawing as Performance

Orly Orbach is an award-winning artist who creates open books, performance graphics, and visual narrative landscapes using diverse interactive and participatory methods. Her work with theatre companies, performers, and leading creative arts organisations includes artwork for Punchdrunk’s The Fall of the House of Usher at Battersea Arts Centre, an artist residency commissioned by Punchdrunk at Fallow Cross, and artwork for the Barbican’s Shakespearean Celebration 'Play On'. Orbach has devised original workshops, projects, and modules for BA and MA students in higher education institutes across the UK, including Falmouth, UCA, Plymouth, Hereford, Norwich, St. Martin’s College of Art, Kingston, and Cass School of Arts.

• IntroductionChapter 1There’s no such thing as a still life: Image making as a rehearsal processChapter 2Drawing from experience: The artist as ModelChapter 3Drawing, Hunting, Praying: Capturing and responding to movementChapter 4Sound – Action – Image: Acting out typographyChapter 5Image-making in public spaces: The streets as immersive theatreChapter 6Re-evalutating the ‘Crit’: The drama of giving and receiving feedbackChapter 7Making the most of misunderstandings: Between intention and interpretation