02.10.2019 | Maeve O’Brien Braun
100 things about the body I’m interested in:
- materiality – weight, composition, morphology
- mobility in realtion to itself
- mobility in the world
- processes of transformation
- capacity to transform and be transformed by the invironment
- capacity to move other bodies —> power
- sensoriality
- ability to empathize with other bodies
- inability to actually experience life from another perspective
- individual’s ability to translate feelings into emotions
- the potentiality created for not knowing its limits
- the ability to push limits through training
- learning processes
- processes of translating information in order to cognitively understand things
- it needs another body even to be alone
- impossibility to grasp its complexity
- the fact that, even though for twestern culture “the body” is a given, it is not so for certain other cultures
- capacity of healing itself
- it is energy
- it can be used as an energy channel
- it can learn to be noticed
- it can learn to be invisible
- it can (re)create reality
- nervous system
- skin
- porosity
- it produces sounds (uncontrollable)
- it can intentionally produce sounds
- it can transform other matter into energy
- it exchanges gases with the outside
- it needs trees
- it’s an animal
- it has hot blood
- it can mould its own shape
- the bones are alive
- its connection to the movement of the moon
Devising a strong “thesis statement” to guide your writing
- Does it crystalise your point of view? Is it a debatable point? 1. Go beyond simple sumary or description / 2. Take up a position or interpretation that is not (immediately) obvious so that it can’t be immediately dismissed
- Con it be argued? Does it ask to be suported by sources? 1. Ask yourself if it really can be anlysed? / 2. Ask yourself if you think there is evidence to support it? What would this be?
- Who would benefit from having your point of view? / 1. Are you sharing more than a belief or opinion?
Essay: “4 choreographic portraits” – Christine de Smedt
What is the broader subject area you will explore? choreography
What central topic you are interested in? authorship
What theme (concept, notion, problem) do you plan to focus on? documentation
References:
Schneider, R. (2008). The Document Performance. In: Brine, D. The live art almanac. London: Live Art Development Agency. pp. 117-120. (lecture 6)
Phelan, P. (1993). The ontology of performance: representation without reproduction. (lecture 6)
Auslander, P. (2006). The Performativity of Performance Documentation. PAJ 84. pp. 1-10. (lecture 6)
Schneider, R. (2001), Archives Performance Remains. Performance Research 6 (2). pp.100 – 108 (lecture 6)
Postdanza (Ana Vujanovic / Bojana Cvecic)
Choreo-graphy – The Deinstitutionalisation of the Body and the Event of Writing – Je Yun Moon – Visual Culture, Goldsmiths College, University of London For the Degree of Ph.D. – 2016
About the work:
- 1st part of the process of creation: documenting 4 artist’s works through interviews
- 2nd part:
- premiere: changed the title to disconect to the co-authors of the documental material
- Christine had a hidden rule of avoiding using her personal life details for creating performance works
- my personal X the personal – there is a certain dimension of identity that is shared by members of a community
- “stealing” others’ personal stories a making them a starting point for developing embodied material (movement, text within a specific discourse – discussion with the public, lecture, etc)
- only by seeing the 4 different solos, we can understand what the work is about
By examining Christine De Smedts’s “4 choreographic portraits” through the lens of
