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Some parts: Ahmed, S.(2006). The Orient and Other Others. In Queer Phenomenology. Orientations, Objects, Others. USA: Duke University Press, pp. 120-142 p. 4 Fanon's example of what he would do if he wanted to smoke, which is an example of being orientated toward an object, is a discription of a body-at-home in its world a… Continue reading The Orient and Other Others

Some parts: Da Silva, João (2010) O'Donnell's Open-Form Composition (OFC): A Possible Stance to Abridge the Divide Improvisation-Composition in Dance. p. 14 Belgrad brings spontaneity in conjunction with the notion of culture, which implies that spontaneity is cultivated and that this cultivation or practice takes place within a particular context, not in isolation. This entails… Continue reading OFP

Some parts: Munoz, J. E. (2009). Cruising Utopia:TheThen and There of Queer Futurity, pp. 168-18

Some parts: Halberstam, J. (2013). The queer art of failure. (Queer art of failure.) Durham. NC: Duke University Press, pp 1-5 & 23-25 & 87-120 p. 3 Barbara Ehrenreich, Bright- sided: positive thinking is a North American affliction, “a mass delusion” that emerges out of a combination of American exceptionalism and a desire to believe… Continue reading The queer art of failure

Some parts: Clark C. 1956 The Nude: A study of Ideal Art. London: John Murray. Pp. 3-29 naked: to be deprived of our clothes (implies embarrassement) nude: the body re-formed; it is an artform invented by the Greeks in the century B.C; it is not the subject of art but a form of art p.… Continue reading Nude in art

p. 41 In the domain of our life excess manifests itself in so far as violence wins over reason. Work demands the sort of conduct where effort is in a constant ratio with productive efficiency. It demands rational behaviour where the wild impulses worked out on feast days and usually in games are frowned upon.… Continue reading Bataille: death & transgression

Some parts: Georgelou, Konstantina (2014) “Abjection and Informe: operations of debasing”, Performance Research Journal ‘On Abjection’ 19: 01, 25-32. p. 25 This article contends that abjection operates as a performative notion on the basis of a network of vectors and not of a substance used therein. It proposes studying and theorizing abjection alongside the notion… Continue reading

Some parts: Work, practice, event: on the poietic character of the work of art, Miika Luoto p. 34 - 38 poiesis means both production and poetry “poetics” classically designates discourses on poetry (and on art in general) from the perspective of its production; towards the end of the eighteenth century the term “poetics” was largely… Continue reading Poesis: the coming-into-presence of something, the “unsecuring”

Some parts: Manchev, Bojan (2015) ‘The New Arachne: Towards a poetics of dynamic forms’, in Performance Research 20:1, 18-26. p. 1 - 3 Form cannot be thought without its limit, and therefore without transformation. It could reach its limit through its activity only: per-formance. Hence, it is impossible to think the activity of form –… Continue reading per-formance + trans-formation

Some parts: Jenks, C. (2003) Transgression. London & New York: Routledge. Pp. 15-48, and 82-110 chapter 2 Durkheim's mechanical and organic solidarity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr73IKXJgcg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yieo378YRD8 p. 22 The primary entities that comprise a social world are social facts, they are the ‘absolute simples’, the irreducible elements that, in unique combinations, constitute different societal forms. Social facts… Continue reading Trans 2+4