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All articles tagged: social

what artists think in Issue #07: Rituals of Now
John Rundell

Music as a Space of Possibilities

John Rundell notes the mechanised rituals associated with modern social existence: we keep time, we check our pace in relation to others. Read more...
feature article in Issue #07: Rituals of Now
Deborah Jowitt

Watching Dance, Rituals of Spectatorship

And in fact, the image of unsuspecting audience members performing pre-determined, ritualised actions in a partially unknown context and without tangible benefit to the universe or the gods seems to resonate with the way we live our lives. Read more...
what artists think in Issue #06: Body in the Raw. Nudity Today.
Nebahat Erpolat

The Body in The Raw

Stripping dance to the bare body itself, removes the unessential. This pricks me awake; it is as if bodies become piercing elements, like a spear. This rupture, stirs feelings through my own body, a body that exists and serves, based on codes and language. Read more...
what artists think in Issue #05: Body Social. Body Political.
Shruti Ghosh

Surviving at The Crossroads: production and performance of a dancer’s body

From stage to living room, art to everyday as a dancer moves, his/her being finds meaning only at the intersections where the social body, the political body and the cultural body meet to produce a body of now. Read more...
diary entries in Issue #05: Body Social. Body Political.
Diary Entry Contributions

Can we identify a sort of a body that understands what it generates, not only artistically, but also politically and socially?

Diary entries by Sarah Jane Norman, Nikki Heywood, Ahilan Ratnamohan, Jodie McNeilly and Sam Fox. Read more...
editorial in Issue #05: Body Social. Body Political.
Angela Conquet

The Body. This. Now.

Contemporary bodies are more than ever inscribed by culture, constrained by the geopolitical environment and moulded by the social media patterns. More than ever, the body is receiving intensified scrutiny in order to better expose it to mass culture and pl(a)y it to the all mighty consumerism. Read more...
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