Drawing is foundational. Most of us begin to draw during our early years, often before we are even capable of naming the subjects we depict. Fundamental as it may be, drawing remains far from straightforward, especially when we abandon the anchoring impulses of depiction and representation for the unmoored territory of abstraction, expression, and pure gesture. This class will delve into the limitless potential of drawing practices that are untethered from the defining, categorizing constraints of the civilized eye. We will engage all our senses in an attempt to expand our notion of what constitutes a drawing practice as broadly as we are able. Our class work will be oriented toward process, discovery, and experimentation. The work will be collective, collaborative, embodied, and interdisciplinary. We will make contact with various non-traditional approaches to drawing-making through forbears such as spiritualist automatism, Gutai, and the Happenings of the 1960's, among others. As a class, we will explore the value of rule-making and rule-breaking in the process of drawing. Notions of authorship will be opened to question as we work collaboratively to use drawing as a tool for self-knowledge and conviviality. Relationships between drawing and our immediate physical surroundings will especially be emphasized through an investigation into the phenomenological and performative possibilities of drawing—there will be opportunities to develop performance projects in hybridity with our drawing work. Class time will be used primarily for drawing experiments, generative games, collaborative exercises, and critiques. The material requirements for this course are very open-ended, and students can expect to spend less than $100 if they so choose. Students will be encouraged to find ways to integrate our class work with their personal, preexisting practices.