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All articles tagged: politic

food for thought in Issue #08: Dance and Ethics.
Jana Perkovic

An Ethics of Touch

Standard art criticism is not very helpful in elucidating this interaction between paper and place, between representation and presence, between a single work of art and a roaring mass of bodies, because it is beholden to literature – in particular, a nineteenth-century concept of literature as a solitary, individual activity. Read more...
what artists think in Issue #08: Dance and Ethics.
Alice Heyward

Anti-Obscurantism

Choreography and performance carry the potential to imagine new relationships and ways of being human. Material, ideas and sites, the elements of a work, are merely the sum of its parts. The ‘work’ (as noun and verb), is that unnamable effect it has on us, with potential to morally and ethically challenge. Read more...
food for thought in Issue #07: Rituals of Now
Ben Eltham

Ritual Cultural Policy

While they may never get a gig on the main stage, there’s no doubt that in the arts, our public servants and politicians have become adept practitioners of a certain type of theatre of power. Read more...
what artists think in Issue #06: Body in the Raw. Nudity Today.
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...
conversations in Issue #06: Body in the Raw. Nudity Today.
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 entries in Issue #06: Body in the Raw. Nudity Today.
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...
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...
editorial in Issue #06: Body in the Raw. Nudity Today.
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...
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...
food for thought in Issue #05: Body Social. Body Political.
Chris Watkin

When I Think I Dance

It is emphatically not the case that dance is the contingent carrier of information or code which can be reconstituted without loss in syntactic language. Rather, dance requires an experiential understanding. 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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