Being in Contact: Encountering a Bare Body

Being in Contact: Encountering a Bare Body - Edition Angewandte

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Publisher's Synopsis

This choreographed book is dedicated to the phenomenon of the bare body in contemporary performance. This work of artistic research draws on philosophical, biopolitical, and ethical discourses relevant to the appearance of bare bodies in choreography, setting a framework for a reflexive movement between affect and ethics, sensuous address and response.

Acts of exposure and concealment are culturally situated and anchored, and are examined for their methodological and nanopolitical significance. The concepts of anarchic responsibility and choreo-ethics lead to a reevaluation of contact, relationship, and solidarity. Choreography is thus understood as a complex field of revelatory experiences based on ecologies of aesthetic perception and ethico-political agency.

Book information

ISBN: 9783110739398
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter
Pub date:
Edition: 1st edition
Language: English
Number of pages: 368
Weight: 736g
Height: 242mm
Width: 167mm
Spine width: 27mm