Art and Dance in Dialogue: Body, Space, Object
- Submitting institution
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Coventry University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 19287207
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-030-44085-5
- Publisher
- Palgrave
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-44084-8
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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3
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This interdisciplinary edited collection is the result of collaborative insights in dance, art and performance that emerged from seminars and symposia. It is co-edited by Racz who contributes to the introduction, and a self-authored chapter: ‘Contextualising the Developing Self in Helen Chadwick’s Ego Geometria Sum’.
The book highlights practices from various locations, including Central and Western Europe, Mexico, and the United States, with each chapter written by an expert in their field. The included essays consider how the body enacts social and cultural rituals in relation to objects, spaces, and the everyday, and how these are questioned, explored, and problematised through, and translated into dance, art, and performance.
The authors build on dialogues between, for example, philosophy and museum studies, and memory studies and post-humanism, and engage with a wide range of theory from phenomenology to relational aesthetics to New Materialism provide a novel collection that considers the continuum between everyday and cultural life, and how rituals and memories are inscribed onto our being.
Racz’s single-authored chapter draws on archive and primary research to illuminate a major, but not well explored work. Helen Chadwick’s autobiographical work Ego Geometria Sum (1982–84) is discussed in relation to her reading of Arthur Koestler’s books The Sleepwalkers and Ghost in the Machine. The development and final display of the work, and its artistic and theoretical contexts is explored, advancing understanding both of this work, and Chadwick’s artistic practice.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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