Choreographing Intersubjectivity in Performance Art: Transforming Subjects (New World Choreographies)

✍ Scribed by Victoria Wynne-Jones

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 263
• Edition: 1st ed. 2021
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers new ways of thinking about dance-related artworks that have taken place in galleries, museums and biennales over the past two decades as part of the choreographic turn. It focuses on the concept of intersubjectivity and theorises about what happens when subjects meet within a performance artwork. The resulting relations are crucial to instances of performance art in which embodied subjects engage as spectators, participants and performers in orchestrated art events.

 

Choreographing Intersubjectivity in Performance Art deploys a multi-disciplinary approach across dance choreography and evolving manifestations of performance art. An innovative, overarching concept of choreography sustains the idea that intersubjectivity evolves through places, spaces, performance and spectatorship. Drawing upon international examples, the book introduces readers to performance art from the South Pacific and the complexities of de-colonising choreography. Artists Tino Sehgal, Xavier Le Roy, Jordan Wolfson, Alicia Frankovich and Shigeyuki Kihara are discussed.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Praise for Choreographing Intersubjectivity in Performance Art
Contents
List of Figures
1 Introduction: Exhibitions and the Choreographic Turn
1.1 The Choreographic Turn: The Emergence and Flourishing of Dance Exhibitions
1.2 Defining Intersubjectivity
1.3 A Working Definition of Choreography
1.4 Summary of Chapters
References
2 Museum Bodies: Choreo-Policing and Choreo-Politics
2.1 Museum Bodies: Self-Regulation
2.2 The Twentieth-Century Exhibition Space: The White Cube as a Mechanism for Viewing
2.3 Twenty-First Century Contemporary Art Museums and the Experience Economy
2.4 Choreographed Bodies: Institutions, Instruction and Choreo-Politics
2.5 The Choreo-Political Project
References
3 Xavier Le Roy and the Male Subject as Performance Artist
3.1 Threshold Spaces and Machinic Voices
3.2 Bodymades: Metamorphosis and Transformation
3.3 Becoming-Animal
References
4 Human, Non-human and Post-human Moving Together: Tino Sehgal and Alicia Frankovich
4.1 Action, Alterity and Assignation: Philosophical Accounts of Intersubjectivity
4.2 A Relation of Relations: Gilbert Simondon’s Transindividual
4.3 An Unruly Mob: Swarming, Social Bonding and the Multitude
4.4 Singularity and Dissensus: Félix Guattari and Intersubjectivity
4.5 The Posthuman: Post-Anthropocentrism, Darkness and De-familiarisation
References
5 From Elsewhere to Here: Rebecca Hobbs’ Networked and Post-Internet Choreographies
5.1 Rebecca Hobbs’ “Otara at Night” (2011)
5.2 Networked Choreographies, Subjectivity as Network
5.3 Post-Internet or Post-Digital Art and Performance
5.4 Becoming-Machine and Cyborgs
5.5 Pushing Movement Archives into the Body: The Internet as a Library of Dance
5.6 Rebecca Hobbs’ “Mangere Mall” (2011)
References
6 Articulating Alternatives: val smith’s Queer Choreographies
6.1 On the Possibility of Queering Choreography
6.2 val smith: Queer Authority and Shifting off Shame
6.3 val smith: Transitioning and Transformation
References
7 Walking the Wall and Crossing the Threshold: Angela Tiatia, Kalisolaite ‘Uhila and Shigeyuki Kihara’s Counter-Hegemonic Choreographies
7.1 Walking the Wall: Pacific Bodies in Museums and Contemporary Art Galleries
7.2 Pasifika Styles: A Short Exhibition History of Pacific Bodies Performing in Museums and Contemporary Art Institutions
7.3 Crossing the Threshold: Decolonizing Choreographies
7.4 Dancing as if to Float: Vā and Relational Space
References
8 Conclusion: Unsettling the Museum
References
Index