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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.
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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