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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...
feature article in Issue #05: Body Social. Body Political.
Geisha Fontaine

Such A Little Thing

The dancer’s body is a paradoxical body. It is the product of a culture and of social determinants, on the one hand; and on the other, it is the producer of new uses for the body. This dimension is little acknowledged by the artists themselves. 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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