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SUMMARY:Spectatorship and Embodied Expression
DESCRIPTION:A Talk / A Performance / A Surreal Meal\nwith Florence Benichou\, Marija Krtolica and Despina Stamos\n“[C]ritical art is a type of art that sets out to build awareness of the mechanisms of domination to turn the spectator into a conscious agent of world transformation\,” writes philosopher Jacques Rancière in Aesthetics and its Discontents (2004). When as dance artists we decide to work critically with and through the body\, and at the same time enter the contested field of the history of psychiatric diagnosis\, our aim is to initiate spectator’s transformation. The intention is to make him/her into an active observer of the world outside a given theatrical event. For this to occur\, the spectator is asked to remain attentive during a relatively short time of a theatrical event. As artists we incite spectators to interpret\, and construct meanings out of the puzzles and expressive tropes we present in front of their eyes. The dancers find themselves in a unique position\, as their art has traditionally been linked with ephemerality\, poetics and abstraction. Paradoxically\, their medium of expression is the most material in a visceral sense. The medium is the body\, with its acquired skills\, aesthetic values attached to it\, pre-verbal histories\, but mainly its skeletal and muscular structure\, organs\, feelings\, drives\, and sensations. By researching the boundary that separates the avant garde artistic expression from the symptoms diagnosed as mental illnesses\, the dance makers become both provocateurs and witnesses who reproduce the visible bodily manifestations\, and give form to hidden realities of everyday encounters. However\, it is not the dancers who are “responsible” for making the theatrical encounter real. As the philosopher Alain Badiou points out\, the Spectator who enters the theater space is the one who presents “point of the real by which a spectacle comes into being.”—Rhapsody for the Theater: A Short Philosophical Treatise\, 1990. Badiou’s Spectator pays for his/her ticket\, but instead of being lulled into a state of pleasant passivity he/she is forced to “perform” the “real” work. That is\, he/she becomes responsible for developing meaning. In this way\, the spectator gradually gains an ability to transform the “real” world outside the theater. \n \nPRESENTERS/PERFORMERS\nAn introductory talk will be given by dance scholar\, choreographer and dancer MARIJA KRTOLICA\, Ph.D in dance Temple University\, and faculty in dance at Bloomsburg University. Her paper “Expression and Symptom” (published in Fall 2019 by Documenta\, Ghent University) examines the relationship between expression in modern dance\, psychiatric diagnosis\, and critico-theoretical re-interpretation of symptoms of mental illness. Her line of research starts with the nineteenth century hysteria and expands into the questions of dance labor\, artistic production\, and spectatorship in today’s society. As is part of each year’s presentation\, dance will be followed by a meal of the surreal. \nFLORENCE BENICHOU’s expansive repertoire includes site-specific performance – both as dancer and choreographer and voice over as well as acting work. She sees dance as a language and aims to use movement within various media to express individual and social relationships\, limitations\, conflicts and connections. She has worked with a variety of underground New York art and dance companies including Modern Dance Awareness Society\, Human Kinetics Movement Art\, and the Sanctuary of Hope before creating her own projects which were featured at Gallery138 in Chelsea\, New York\, France. \nDESPINA STAMOS is a dancer/choreographer in NYC since 1989. Her work has been presented throughout New York City at such venues as Dance Theater Workshop\, PS122\, PS1\, as well as internationally in Greece\, Germany\, Switzerland\, Austria and Puerto Rico. In 2006\, she initiated and collaborated on the community project\, passTRESpass\, a multimedia performance installation in a former community market place addressing immigration\, in Athens\, with the United African Women’s Organization of Greece. Stamos is founding member of the Modern Dance Awareness Society.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/spectatorship-and-embodied-expression/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Dance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190202T153000
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DTSTAMP:20181222T165306Z
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SUMMARY:The Last Dance Meets The Last Repast
DESCRIPTION:The Politics of the Unconscious: HYSTERIA\, SURREALISM\, & AVANT-GARDE DANCE\nOur Guide: Marija Krtolica\nWinter 2019 Version\nPresentation with discussion\nThe talk examines the historico-political relationships between: the psychiatric transformation of madness into mental illness\, the psychoanalytic discovery of the unconscious\, the surrealist anti-psychiatric art\, and dance-theater’s embodied expression stripped of narrative development. Hysteria as one of the most theatrical of mental illnesses\, presents a point of departure for a discussion of the ways in which since modernism the artists resisted psychiatric diagnosis based on a reductive reading of symptoms. The talk will place the artistic explorations from modernism and post-modernism in a dialogue with the ideas from Lacanian psychoanalysis. \nPerformance: Theorizing Symptomatic Expression\nGroup movement improvisation:  Hystero-Grotesque Mode\nIntermission \nA surreal meal à la Dalí will be served \nTheorizing Symptomatic Expression \n“The jaws of my mind are in perpetual motion.\nThe sensual intelligence housed in the tabernacle of my palate\nbeckons me to pay greatest attention to food.\nI only like to eat what has a clear and intelligible form.”\n—Salvador Dali\, Gastro Esthetics \n“The spectacle corresponds to the historical moment at which\nthe commodity completes the colonization of social life.”\n—Guy Debord\, Society of the Spectacle \nMARIJA KRTOLICA (b. 1973\, Belgrade) is an international movement artist\, dance researcher and teacher (BFA NYU\, MFA UC Davis\, MA NYU\, PhD\, Dance\,Temple University). Her current research focuses on the meanings and symptoms of hysteria in the nineteenth century\, and critical re-investigation of hysterical scenes in Tanztheater. At the artistic residence in Spread Art in Detroit\, the University of Arts\, Belgrade\, and at the Le Couvent artistic residence in Auzits\, France.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-last-dance-meets-the-last-repast/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Politics of the Unconscious and Surrealist Brunch
DESCRIPTION:“If a truth is never communicable as such\, it nevertheless implies\, at a distance from itself\, powerful reshapings of the forms and referents of communication.”\n(L’ethique: Essai sur la conscience du Mal (1993)\, Alain Badiou) \nThe Politics of the Unconscious and a Surrealist Brunch\nMarija Krtolica \n“If a truth is never communicable as such\, it nevertheless implies\, at a distance from itself\, powerful reshapings of the forms and referents of communication.”  (L’ethique: Essai sur la conscience du Mal (1993)\, Alain Badiou) \nOver brunch\, the political meanings of Dadaist and Surrealist art\, film and poetry will be discussed along with the grotesque dances by Valeska Gert (Weimar Era)\, and dance-theater of Pina Bausch and Mats Ek (1970s-80s). We will explore how the aesthetic de-hierarchicalization and commodity culture inform our practices as witnesses and art makers. We will investigate ways of synthesizing the critical writings on capitalism and schizophrenia (Gilles Deleuze\, 1972) and the politics of aesthetics (Jacques Rancière\, 2004). There may even be a performance event. \nMarija Krtolica (b. 1973\, Belgrade) is an international movement artist\, dance researcher and teacher (BFA NYU\, MFA UC Davis\, MA NYU\, completing PhD in dance at Temple University in Philadelphia). Her current research focuses on the meanings and symptoms of hysteria in the nineteenth century\, and critical re-investigation of hysterical scenes in Tanztheater. Recently\, she presented papers at CUNY at Graudate Center conference Approaching Dance\, NCSA Caucus in Charleston\, the Department of Visual Arts conference at UCSD (2015)\, ACLA 2015 in Seattle\, a Graduate Conference of the Department of English at the University of Chicago (2014)\, and Choreography Symposium at the University of Cologne (2014)\, At the artistic residence in Spread Art in Detroit (2015)\, the University of Arts Belgrade (2015)\, and at the  Le Couvent artistic residence in Auzits\, France (2016). Marija has worked with the lecture/performance mode of examining elusive boundaries between practice and theory. Marija has published papers in The International Journal of the Arts in Society (2009 and 2011)\, and The Journal of Arts Theory and History (2013). She has written articles and conducted interviews for the Belgrade dance publication Orchestra.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/politics-of-the-unconscious-second-sessions-2018-02-18/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Politics of the Unconscious: Second Sessions
DESCRIPTION:“If a truth is never communicable as such\, it nevertheless implies\, at a distance from itself\, powerful reshapings of the forms and referents of communication.”\n(L’ethique: Essai sur la conscience du Mal (1993)\, Alain Badiou) \nThe Politics of the Unconscious:\nHysteria\, Surrealism\, and Avant-Garde Dance\nWith a Surrealist Brunch on Day Two\nMarija Krtolica\nTwo Sundays \nStarting with the fin-de-siècle Parisian hospital Salpêtrière\, we will touch upon the historical resonances of the invention of mental pathology\, and aesthetic forms that resonance has instigated. We will first engage Freud and Lacan on hysteria\, and then consider feminist and other critical re-readings of their work. This will bring us to look at the images of the mental patients of this period\, many of which challenge the boundary between artistic representation and medical documentation. In light of day one\, during the following Sunday\, over a Surrealist Brunch\, the political meanings of Dadaist and Surrealist art\, film and poetry will be discussed along with the grotesque dances by Valeska Gert (Weimar Era)\, and dance-theater of Pina Bausch and Mats Ek (1970s-80s). We will explore how the aesthetic de-hierarchicalization and commodity culture inform our practices as witnesses and art makers. We will investigate ways of synthesizing the critical writings on capitalism and schizophrenia (Gilles Deleuze\, 1972) and the politics of aesthetics (Jacques Rancière\, 2004 )\, with a performance event. \nMarija Krtolica (b. 1973\, Belgrade) is an international movement artist\, dance researcher and teacher (BFA NYU\, MFA UC Davis\, MA NYU\, completing PhD in dance at Temple University in Philadelphia). Her current research focuses on the meanings and symptoms of hysteria in the nineteenth century\, and critical re-investigation of hysterical scenes in Tanztheater. Recently\, she presented papers at CUNY at Graudate Center conference Approaching Dance\, NCSA Caucus in Charleston\, the Department of Visual Arts conference at UCSD (2015)\, ACLA 2015 in Seattle\, a Graduate Conference of the Department of English at the University of Chicago (2014)\, and Choreography Symposium at the University of Cologne (2014)\, At the artistic residence in Spread Art in Detroit (2015)\, the University of Arts Belgrade (2015)\, and at the  Le Couvent artistic residence in Auzits\, France (2016). Marija has worked with the lecture/performance mode of examining elusive boundaries between practice and theory. Marija has published papers in The International Journal of the Arts in Society (2009 and 2011)\, and The Journal of Arts Theory and History (2013). She has written articles and conducted interviews for the Belgrade dance publication Orchestra.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/politics-of-the-unconscious-second-sessions/2018-02-11/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Politics of the Unconscious: Last Dance/Last Supper
DESCRIPTION:The Politics of the Unconscious: Hysteria\, Surrealism\, and Avant-Garde Dance\nThe Last Dance meets the Last Repast\nPresented by Marija Krtolica \nSurreal Meal à la Dalí  \nSchedule:\n2 p.m. Arrivals\n2:15 a surprise improvisational event\n2:45 discussion time\, preparation for the meal\n3-4 pm food is served\, reflected on\, and consumed\n4 pm bye bye \nThe event investigates the embodied self as a site of personal and cultural memories evoked through sense based experiences. It proposes a conscious engagement with the aesthetic dimension of viewing\, hearing\, consuming\, and digesting happenings\, thoughts\, and nutrients. \nOn the one hand\, we will explore how the aesthetic de-hierarchization and commodity culture inform our practices as witnesses and makers. On the other\, we will open up the concept of the unconscious and re-create it through imaginative practices.  \nMottos for a Sunday Afternoon: \nThe jaws of my mind are in perpetual motion.\nThe sensual intelligence housed in the tabernacle of my palate beckons me to pay greatest attention to food.\nI only like to eat what has a clear and intelligible form.\n—Salvador Dali\, Gastro Esthetics \nThe spectacle corresponds to the historical moment at which the commodity completes the colonization of social life.\nGuy Debord\, Society of the Spectacle \nMarija Krtolica (b. 1973\, Belgrade) is an international movement artist\, dance researcher and teacher (BFA NYU\, MFA UC Davis\, MA NYU\, completing PhD in dance at Temple University in Philadelphia). Her current research focuses on the meanings and symptoms of hysteria in the nineteenth century\, and critical re-investigation of hysterical scenes in Tanztheater.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-politics-of-the-unconscious-last-dancelast-supper/
LOCATION:New Perspectives Theatre\, 456-458 West 37th Street\, New York\, NY\, United States
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