Paper Dance and Affiliated Works
- Submitting institution
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Roehampton University
: B - Drama
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : B - Drama
- Output identifier
- 918606
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Philadelphia
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
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- Year of first exhibition
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Dramaturgical and curatorial research took place over two years, through intensive collaboration with the artists in San Francisco, New York and Philadelphia, whilst editorial, filmic and written research continued for a further year in New York and London. Subsequent outputs were in excess of two journal articles: an archival performance film, a large-scale exhibition with numerous performance iterations, an edited book containing a single-authored 12,000-word essay, and a written, co-directed and co-edited film (41 minutes). The scale of investment in these collaborative and solitary research processes, significantly contributed to the formal and intellectual scope of the produced materials and events.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This multi-component output was created through collaborations with the sculptor Janine Antoni, choreographer Anna Halprin, videographer Hugo Glendinning and writer Hélène Cixous. Over two years, my practice-as-research questioned dramaturgical, curatorial, writerly and editorial methods. As a dramaturge working with Halprin, I strove to create, structure and affectively refine a performance by Antoni. Paper Dance investigates the transformation of an historical work across disciplines, sensibilities and agents. My work within the collaboration interrogated and reframed the material engagements of the artist’s performing body, and the resonance of gestural images in relation to personal history, gender and environment. As an independent curator with Antoni I situated, reformed and re-contextualize the performance’s installation and iteration within a large-scale exhibition Ally at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. My curatorial work sought to make a significant intervention into the traditions of exhibition and display of performance in museums: its temporal organization, formal relations and conditions of reception. This work is evidenced in: an archival film (1) of the initial performance work (Halprin Dance Deck, Kentfield, 2015), a photographic portfolio (2) of numerous later museal enactments (FWM, 2016), and a pack (3) summarizing art and dance press reception. I subsequently edited a critical and documentary book (4) examining and contextualizing Ally (published by Hirmer and FWM, 2017). Through a 12,000-word analysis of these affiliated works – Remembering Air – I drew out this work’s art historical, cultural-political and philosophical stakes and resonances. I then wrote, and with Glendinning co-directed and co-edited, the visual essay (5) Spirit Labour (2016), screened in numerous biennales and festivals globally. Formally experimenting with the filmic essay, I proposed these trans-generational feminist creative dialogues as an “infrastructure of spirited affinity”. A contextualizing research statement (6) and list of global exhibitions and screenings (7) accompanies a digital file of the film.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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