Bojana Kunst

The Economy of Proximity: Dramaturgical Work in Contemporary Dance

Dramaturgical work in dance seems to reflect the increasing need for theory and reflection, which re-questions the a priori truths and self-evidence of dance. Read more...

Audrey Schmidt

Everything is fucked

It is the aesthetic which distinguishes the artistic from the pornographic and the moral which provides the societal gauge that transforms the erotic into the obscene. Read more...

Gulsen Ozer

Prude

For many artists, performing naked is a rite of passage, an act of bravery, a sacrifice of the self for art, even a conquering of the ego. Read more...

Alice Heyward

Nakedness is a process not a state

The key is that, in life and art, nakedness is a process, not a state. We are our bodies, our bodies are our selves. Nudity generates self-knowledge and power. Read more...

Jo Faulkner

Censorship, nudity and childhood innocence: from Henson to Yore

Life intrudes upon the fantasy of the innocent child. Childhood nudity comes to be associated not with innocence, but its betrayal. Read more...

Phillip Adams, Jill Orr and Jessica Sabatini

Phillip Adams in conversation with Jill Orr

What went wrong?! Where did we go wrong with our naked politics? Read more...

Diary Entry Contributions

What can a naked body say today that a clothed body cannot?

Diary entries by Jill Orr, Maud Davey, Atlanta Eke, Daniel Léveillé and Deborah Hay. Read more...

Roland Huesca

Nudity and figures of transgression at the end of the 20th century

In the 90s naked dancers created unheard of ways of living and feeling the body: sensitively, they offered a different kind of story where nudity, far from incarnating an ideal, appeared instead to propose a new sensory order. Read more...

Angela Conquet

The flesh is still weak. So is the mind.

The naked body externalises what its membrane hides, it is a deliberate pose, presentation or distortion. Art acts as a mirror of the culture that produces it, and if this mirror depicts less than orthodox images of the body, this is merely a reflection of our times. Read more...

Alison Finn

Free Beer

What is the meaning, and value, of nudity or nakedness – for these are different things – in contemporary dance work? Read more...

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