Exposition

And hand, and index, and manual: ongoing explorations of my online choreographies in conjunction with my evolving research. (last edited: 2018)

Renee Carmichael
open exposition

About this exposition

I have been wanting to start this project for awhile, but I didn’t know where to start. I didn’t have the right connection. But then I started reading “Fenomenología del Fin: Sensibilidad y mutación conectiva” by Franco “Bifo” Berardi—(My first experience reading a theoretical book completely in Spanish, a point that is not to be put aside as something decoded—ah ha!—but to be anded into the conversation, the experience and the process. For me it is already a liminal starting point of not only a new life in Buenos Aires after arriving around 6 weeks ago, but also a new type of conjunción in my research)—and I realised that I did not need a connection. And what now? The idea here will be to explore my own movements surrounding my research as I read it and process it and note it and write it and digitise it. This very current month, whatever month you find yourself reading this text, I am starting a PhD in Teoría Comparada de las Artes at Universidad Nacional de Tres Febrero in Buenos Aires, Argentina. My topic is around dance and code. I won’t go into details, and anyway, they will probably change depending on what month you are in. Instead I will say that I want to get to the body. To the dance AND to the code there is always a body to be explored. I am not exactly sure what shape this will take. What I can say now is that I plan to record my movements while thinking through them with the very theories that I am reading. Every once and awhile I might make a connection, a code that can be used for you readers, to also understand, or better yet—use. But the point is more in the exploration, in the conjunctions. From what I incorporated, conjuncted, from the Spanish and the introduction of Berardi’s book, with the digital, we are moving away from a liminal world of conjunctions, empathic understanding, and instead find ourselves in connections, or clear codes of communication in structures of syntax. This changes the way we perceive the world, which includes our aesthetic sensibility and our emotional sensitivity. Have we lost our ability to experience that which cannot be said, that which is liminal, that which cannot be understood, that which cannot be codified, that which has no syntax, that which can only be felt? And in a very general sense, my research is asking a similar question. It is bringing back the idea of the body as a way of resisting flows of technological power through the conjunction of dance and code. And so why now? I have often said, in understandable syntax to describe ideas that perhaps only make sense to me, that I often interalise a theory. I make it experience and then I use it to write. I also say I am interested in exploring the liminal. But I always go back to codifying it, to describing it, to writing it. I will of course have to do that to complete the PhD. There is a system in place after all and this system requires a specific syntax. However, here is my chance to remain in the liminal and in the conjunction and in the body as much as possible in order to process the things I am reading, writing and researching in new ways, with my aesthetic sensibility AND my emotional sensitivity. And let’s see where it goes.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsdance, gesture, conjunction, code, sensibility, sensitivity, and, phd, movement, Choreography, hands, corporeality
date21/03/2018
last modified01/05/2018
statusin progress
share statuspublic
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/451221/451222
external linkhttp://www.fleeimmediately.com/


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451243 To Do January Renee Carmichael All rights reserved
451245 Notes February Renee Carmichael All rights reserved
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454166 Upright author All rights reserved
454177 Leaning forward, hair author All rights reserved
454187 leaning, vertigo author All rights reserved
454199 holding blurry book author All rights reserved
454204 shaking author All rights reserved
454213 hand back and forth equals social brain? author All rights reserved
454217 bumped knee author All rights reserved
454228 cmds author All rights reserved
454231 multitasking author All rights reserved
454235 google shape author All rights reserved
454237 marx = author All rights reserved
454241 hand on head author All rights reserved
454245 snap in place does not work author All rights reserved
454252 snap in place does not work, attempt 2 author All rights reserved
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