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Mirror/Water: Reflections on Stasis and Liquidity in Performance
MA Performance Thesis, 2016.
Visual Cultures as Seriousness
What is seriousness exactly, and where does it reside? Is it a desirable value in contemporary culture? Or is it bound up with elite class and institutional cultures?
Relational Aesthetics
Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting.
Awkwardness
Argues that the awkwardness of our age is a key to understanding human experience.
Towards an embodied poetics of failure
Exploration of violence and trauma in needcompany’s Marketplace 76.
Enmeshed bodies, impossible touch: the object-oriented world of Pina Bausch’s Café Müller
The addresses the nonhuman bodies of Café Müller and claim that Bausch’s piece resonates with the work of contemporary philosopher Graham Harman, in that it tries to go beyond human exceptionalism to present a world where all bodies, regardless of their perceived nature, are simultaneously tightly enmeshed together and inaccessible to one another.
Towards a Poiesis of Critical Practice: 1000th LIVE and the politics of appearance
On the process and politics of live critical responses to a live stream of Forced Entertainment’s And on a Thousandth Night.
Creating by Annotating: The director’s notebooks of Jan Fabre and Jan Lauwers
Reversing the common understanding of annotation as a posterior act of adding information to already existing sources, this article argues that annotation also serves as a pre-performance procedure facilitating artistic creation.
The Regenerative Ruination of Romeo Castellucci
This article proposes an expanded understanding of Romeo Castellucci's radical performance work as a genuine theatre of ruins.
Staging an Exilic Autobiography: On the pleasures and frustrations of repetitions and returns
Expanding on the ideas of double wound (Caruth) and nostalgia (Aciman), this article discusses Davis' poetic autobiographic performances as examples of the terror and relief of repeating exilic pain.
