Ana Lucia Beck

PhD in Comparative Literature (UFRGS, Brazil), with a Master in Art History, Theory and Critique, with a dissertation addressing the relationship between word and image in poetry and in the works of art of Brazilian artist José Leonilson. This later developed in the PhD proposal of a comparative approach of Jose Leonilson and Louise Bourgeois creative processes. My academic life started in the visual arts, where I got a degree in Drawing. Somehow I find that everything I do nowadays - might that be in art research, teaching, theory or practice - relates to a contemporary notion of drawing that understands this practice as something that happens in ?in-between? space, thus implying a fundamental aspect to the notion of knowledge: its importance in being responsive to the Other, to failure, to the concrete world surrounding us. Every effort we make in order to understand any of these issues also relates to an idea of ?in-betweenes? questioning of our place in the world as something perpetually related to the tension between words and images.