EXPANDED CHOREOGRAPHY : Shifting the agency of movement in The Artificial Nature Project and 69 positions

• Through two books and a series of video documentations of live performances Mette Ingvartsen makes choreography into a territory of physical, artistic and social experimentation. The Artificial Nature Series focusses on how relations between human and non-human agency can be explored and reconfigured through choreography. By investigating and creating a ‘nonhuman theater’ questions regarding material agency, ecology, natural disasters, the Anthropocene and non-subjective performativity are posed. The resulting reflections are closely related to the poetic principles utilized to create the performances, while also drawing connections to territories outside theater. By contrast, 69 positions inscribes itself into a history of human performance with afocus on nudity, sexuality and how the body historically has been a site for political struggles. By creating a guided tour through sexual performances – from the naked protest actions of the 1960’s, through an archive ofpersonal performances into a reflection on contemporary sexual practice – this solo work rethinks audience participation and proposes a notion of soft and social choreography. The contrasting performative strategiesarticulate a twofold notion of expanded choreography: on the one hand movement is extended beyond the human body by including the agency of nonhuman performers, and on the other hand, movement is expanded into animaginary and virtual space thanks to ‘language choreography’.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Scenkonst (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Performing Arts (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

material agency

vibrant matter

sensorial participation

sensorial problems

immersive stage environments

color perception

nonhuman choreography

actants

the Anthropocene

non-subjective performativity

ecology

catastrophe

technological extensions of the body

the triple image

animate/inanimate

expression

action

production of affect

evaporation

dissolution and dispersion

poetics

expanded choreography

Sexuality

sexual liberation

the performance history of the 1960s

protest and politics

‘language choreography’

orality

storytelling

pornography

affect and economy

expression and liberty

immaterial labor

self-experimentation

dance

‘soft choreography'

social choreography

Koreografi

Dans

Konstnärlig forskning

Performativa och mediala praktiker, med inriktning mot film och media/koreografi/opera/scen

Performative and mediated practices, with specializations in choreography/film and media/opera /performing arts

material agency

vibrant matter

sensorial participation

sensorial problems

immersive stage environments

color perception

nonhuman choreography

actants

the Anthropocene

non-subjective performativity

ecology

catastrophe

technological extensions of the body

the triple image

animate/inanimate

expression

action

production of affect

evaporation

dissolution and dispersion

poetics

expanded choreography

Sexuality

sexual liberation

the performance history of the 1960s

protest and politics

‘language choreography’

orality

storytelling

pornography

affect and economy

expression and liberty

immaterial labor

self-experimentation

dance

‘soft choreography'

social choreography

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