Performance Studies

Deleuze on Nietzsche

10.08.2002 Performance Studies

Deleuze on Nietzsche (difference in terms of the horizontal axis of movement) yikes. Notes… ‘origin’ means a plurality of differences. A genealogy is an effort to separate oneself from them. For Nietzsche, geneology is fundamentally an evaluation. Evaluation entails a distancing; distancing is the element of difference. Nietzsche’s thought is resolutely antidialectical and suspicious of all [...]

Tagged as: Deleuze and/or Guattari, Nietzsche

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Desubjectification

10.05.2002 Performance Studies

Vectors trace for us the contours of an experience, but not an experience that we may comfortably relate to. Vectors form new paths, new terrain, and new ways of thinking. Desubjectification through movement/ flashes and rushes. … This element of exteriority…will give time a new rhythm: an endless succession of catatonic episodes or fainting spells, [...]

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Thought on Content and Expression via Delueze and Guattari

10.04.2002 Performance Studies

Delueze and Guattari explain the difference between expression and content. Expression is of the order of signs. Content is of the order of bodies. Expression cannot reveal content. Instead, expression intervenes with bodies. Expression, or signs, insert themselves into bodies , changing them. … a manner in which expressions are inserted in to contents, in [...]

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Deleuze and Guattarri’s war machine

10.03.2002 Performance Studies

One useful way of examining connections and interactions is Deleuze and Guattarri’s illustration of the war machine. The following material spurred useful questions: Can the body be “played” with/in/on anonymously? What is the relation of the body and the play in the cotenxt that Deleuze is placing Chess and Go? Is this ta useful distinction? [...]

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‘Style’ according to A Thousand Plateaus

10.01.2002 Performance Studies

What is called a style can be the most natural thing in the world; it is nothing other than the procedure of a continuous variation. Of the dualisms established by linguistics, there are few with a more shaky foundation than the separation between linguistics and stylistics: Because style is not an individual psychological creation but [...]

Tagged as: Deleuze and/or Guattari

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Martin Heidegger

09.18.2002 Performance Studies

The fundamental question of metaphysics 1: The fundamental question is ‘why are there essents (things that are)? This question looms in moments of great despair, when things tend to lose all their weight and all meaning becomes obscured. 2: The question may merely pass through our lives like a brief gust of wind; it may [...]

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Hans-Georg Gadamer: Aesthetics and Hermeneutics

09.11.2002 Performance Studies

181: Hermeneutics bridges the distance between the personal and the historical. Hegel says that art is a form of the Absolute Spirit and the Spirit’s self-knowledge. An absolute contemporaneousness exists between art and its beholder that persists despite the intensification of historical consciousness. Historical context can’t explain the power of art. The work of art [...]

Tagged as: Aesthetics, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hermeneutics

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C A P O E I R A

07.03.2002 Performance Studies
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Chairs were pushed to the walls. Thirty-five notebooks slammed shut. And different sized shoes scattered across the linoleum floor. The demonstration of Afro-Brazilian Capoeira opened up a space for the not only physical bodies, but also introduced an air of exuberance and experimentation. Within this recycled space, students kicked up their legs, concentrated on their [...]

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Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake

07.01.2002 Performance Studies
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The screened performance of Swan Lake undoubtedly problematizes what Susan Leigh Foster calls the ballerina-as-phallus. By performing homosexual heroes, this new approach to the classic ballet re-engages notions of gender identities in both political and aesthetic contexts. While I do not dispute the relevance of this problematization, I feel that Swan Lake more importantly interrogates the [...]

Tagged as: Matthew Bourne, NYC

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The Queen’s Throat

07.01.2002 Performance Studies
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The first chapter of The Queen’s Throat, by Wayne Koestenbaum caught me by surprise. Why does the author indulge in personal anecdote? Why does he begin so many unfinished fragments? But most importantly, I wondered whether the text was academic. Can one really pass off an exalted diary as a theoretical text? It took me a [...]

Tagged as: Wayne Koestenbaum

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