research question

This week we - Juliana Atuesta, Ingo Keil and myself - are presenting our reserach questions in Arnhem at ArtEZ on Tuesday at 16:00.

corpocidade

going for an
urban intervention in
C O R P O C I D A D E

27th till 31st October
Salvador, Brazil

http://www.corpocidade.dan.ufba.br
picture by Carina Hesper

conference Oslo

Dansens Hus - Oslo

International conference

"Centre and Periphery" - -dance today discussed in the perspective of contemporary art/artists and the relation between unique aesthetics, aesthetics of diversity, diversity of practice and international exchange

1st - 2nd of March 2008

http://www.idee-eu.com/

lecture by Doran George.

agenda dance unlimited arnhem

The body is dead, long live the body: Dances of trauma, failure and incoherence as corporeal possibility rather than content.

We live in an historical moment where “the body” is a contested phenomenon. Our human form achieves intelligibility through becoming known as a social subject, a process through which the body is implicated in terms of power and the self evident materiality of the universal body is already lost. To talk about “the body,” in the contemporary moment, as a universally recognizable and fixed entity has lost it’s meaning. Theory has attempted to define and redefine the terms of power by which a body is signified…male, female, gay, straight, black, white, working class, middle class.
But these clumsy linguistic terms erase the specificity of corporeality even as they attempt to access it in its socially and politically inscribed location. They are overdetermined rather than discerning in their differentiation of our human form. So what does this mean for the dancer, the artist whose primary medium is this thing, which we once knew of as "the body"? In this lecture I’m going to set out some of the performance methodologies that I’ve engaged in to access the body differently, and also talk about how performance practice can re-invest corporeality with some agency in debate that often renders it a passive object of investigation.

symposium

Movement?
Necessity?
Subject?

Dance Unlimited Arnhem
Generale Oost
Symposium 2007
15. November


with lectures by

Dr. Ric Allsopp
'Open Work – Postproduction – Dissemination'


Prof. Susan Melrose
Signature, Singularity, and ‘What Feels Right’:
what ‘theory’ doesn’t tell you about art-making


Dr. Dragan Klaic
A worldview, to challenge and engage


http://www.artez.nl/DUASymposium/