Being in Contact: Encountering a Bare Body explores the concept of bare bodies and how to encounter them in contemporary choreography. This artistic research draws on philosophical, bio-political and ethical discourse relevant for the emergence of bare bodies in choreographic work, and creates a frame for a reflexive movement between affect and ethics, sensuous address and response. Narrations of bare bodies transpire in this choreographed book.
Acts of baring and concealing get acknowledged as culturally situated, anchored in decolonising practices of being in contact, for unearthing their methodological weight and nanopolitical significance. The book unfolds and explores non-subjective performativity, implying a fluid conception of identity. It introduces the ideations of an-archic responsibility and choreo-ethics for reassessing contact, relation and solidarity as an ethico-aesthetic project of current choreographic performances. These propositions get probed alongside a shift from spectator to wit(h)ness. Differentiating and untangling the tones and shades of the triplet naked, nude, and bare shows that each term refers differently to body and performativity. All in all, the choreographic is conceptualised as a complex field of revelatory experiences built on ecologies of aesthetic perception and realising ethico-political agency.
Mariella Greil Being in Contact: Encountering a Bare Body
Published in the Series: Edition Angewandte by Walter De Gruyter | 2021
Hardcover: ISBN: 9783110739398
Electronic: ISBN: 9783110735987
368 pages, 165 x 240 mm, title 6 pages
Copyediting: David Ender, Scott Clifford Evans
Image editing: Pixelstorm
Chirography: Mariella Greil
Cover image: Mariella Greil
Cover design: Simona Koch
Design and layout: Simona Koch / gestaltgebung.eu
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Desktop Performances are a format explored in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, when live performances were cancelled.
Polylogic Organisms is a Desktop Performance by Mariella Greil developed in collaboration with Werner Moebius and was presented at SAR Conference 2021 in Vienna. The 12th SAR Conference on Artistic Research of the Society for Artistic Research hosted by mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of Applied Arts Vienna – is oriented on the three attractors “care”, “dare” and “share” and is the first SAR conference to be organised as a live online event. On 9th April, 2021 from 15:10-15:50 Online (Banquet Hall) Polylogic organisms – performative assemblages of choreo-ethics (slowing gradually the BPM of the pomegranate) was presented.
Rooted in contemporary performance & sonic occurrences we staged a desktop performance exploring sustainable and destructive small acts. Through the lense of micro-phenomenology we ask, what choreo-ethics – the ideation proposed around enfleshed and negotiated ethics – means today and how a polylogue can emerge between organisms and their spheres. There occur various “alivenesses” and hybrid entanglements and we investigate the nanopolitical dimensions nested into choreo-ethical ecologies.
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Simmering Until Done is a Desktop Performance by Mariella Greil created for research state a platform for sharing research projects in both scientific and artistic research fields. Researchers at the University of Applied Arts were invited to present their current research in the frame of the Angewandte Festival 2020 (see archive: https://angewandtefestival.at/random/)
Here a commentary to the work:
Choreo-ethical Assemblages 