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Unfolding space: an allotropic dance in three parts for two players
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posted on 2012-06-14, 10:23 authored by Marsha Meskimmon, Phil SawdonWe propose an Allotropic Dance as a paper/project of fragmentary visions to explore the
interactions (in)between articulation and unfolding space, as might be configured
through process, fluidity and our resonant, generative awareness of the creative and
seductive potential of ambiguous and elusive coordinates. Adapting some steps from
Haraway and Butler, the project stretches ‘articulation’ and ‘materialisation’ beyond
representational stasis, toward contingency, connection and desiring agency/desirous
verve – the very possibility of an open-ended future. From our sense (following our
senses) we will suggest that articulate spaces are not so much defined as they are
unfolding, emergent, perhaps hidden, and becoming.
Our careful expression refocuses defining space from the identification and description
of boundaries, to an attentive engagement with how those boundaries have been made,
and how we might articulate them ‘otherwise’ in future. The project is an aesthetic
intervention through this territory, bringing art, theory, subjects and politics into a dialogic
dance.
We introduce allotropism (‘other manner’) to our dance, as the manifestation of multiple
modes of a single element at one and the same moment (diamonds, graphite)... (continues)
History
Citation
MESKIMMON, M. and SAWDON, P., 2010. Unfolding space: an allotropic dance in three parts for two players. Articulations, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA) annual conference, Amsterdam, 22 - 24 March 2010.Publisher
The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) © the authorsVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2010Notes
Unfolding Space: An Allotropic Dance in Three Parts for Two Players is a paper/project of fragmentary visions that explore the interactions (in)between articulation and unfolding space, as might be configured through process, fluidity and our resonant, generative awareness of the creative and seductive potential of ambiguous and elusive coordinates. The paper/project was presented at Articulations, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA) annual conference, Amsterdam, March 2010. In the authors' original version the paper contained hyperlinks to a series of audio and video files to create a multimedia document.Language
- en