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Slow Spatial Reader: Chronicles of Radical Affection
Publication edited by Carolyn F. Strauss, Valiz Summer 2021

Like its predeces­sor, Slow Reader (Valiz 2016), this new publication is intended to spur meaningful dialogue between disci­plines and cultures, inspiring not only a different velocity of engaging the world but also critical shifts in consciousness. 
I contribute with a chapter called "Space as Atmosphere: Floating in a Molecular Bath", in which I share my recent research on atmosphere, slowness and perception, starting from my experience with Stav Yeini's The Senders.
 

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Aesthetic Boredom: Investigating the Experience of Slow Dance in a Society of Haste
Master’s Thesis, Contemporary Theatre Dance and Dramaturgy, Utrecht University, March 2020

Drawing on publications by Hartmut Rosa, Byung-Chul Han, Jonathan Crary, André Lepecki, Bojana Cvejic, Bojana Kunst, Ana Vujanović, Gernot Böhme, and Alva Noë, I explore how a rencent tendency in contemporary dance, coined ‘slow dance’ by Hana Lee Erdman and Louise Dahl, answers to a societal context of haste. I develop the concepts of ‘molecular thingness’ and ‘atmosphere’ to approach slowness beyond easily identifiable compositional choices; and ‘deep perception’, ‘aesthetic boredom’ and ‘atmospheres of resonance’ to indicate a distinctive way in which slow performances organize collective spaces of spectatorship, namely spaces that, by calling attention to a realm that ontologically precedes all kind of individuation, bypass individualistic as well as anthropocentric modes of engaging.

Commissionned dramaturgical texts

The Labyrinth
On Fabian Krestel's exhibition/performance at
 
Brass / HP24, March 2024.

S l o w D a n c e: undermining graspability in a molecular environment
On Choreographic work by Hana Erdman & Louise Dahl, July 2020.

Speculative Methodology for Darkness
On Evelien Cammaert's artistic practice, December 2019.
 

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