Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 568 g
Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 568 g
Reihe: Whitechapel: Documents of Cont
ISBN: 978-0-262-51777-5
Verlag: MIT PR
notion of dance in an expanded field, Dance establishes the aesthetics and politics of dance as a major impetus in contemporary culture. It offers testimonies and writings by influential visual artists whose work has taken inspiration from dance and choreography. Dance--because of its ephemerality,
corporeality, precariousness, scoring, and performativity--is arguably the art form that most clearly engages the politics of aesthetics in contemporary culture. Dance's ephemerality suggests the possibility of an escape from the regimes of commodification and fetishization in the arts. Its corporeality can embody critiques of representation inscribed in bodies and subjects. Its precariousness underlines
the fragility of contemporary states of being. Scoring links it with conceptual art, as language becomes the articulator for possible as well as impossible modes of action. Finally, because dance always establishes a contract, or promise, between its choreographic planning and its actualization in movement, it reveals an essential performativity in its aesthetic project--a central concern for both art and critical thought in our time.