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Monday, August 08, 2011

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      • From 'The Man in the Suit'
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      • Review ‘Pro - Man Renaissance’.
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      • extract from "Relational Aesthetics"
      • An Improvisational Performance Using Improvisation...
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      • Videos for you
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      • Performance at The Wine Cellar
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Kristian Larsen

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Kristian Larsen
Born in Marton, Kristian Larsen had a relatively uneventful life until he was run over by a Holden Statesman. After being sued by the driver, Larsen found employment in a number of low paying jobs until he discovered social dancing. This in turn led to formal training and knee surgery. Larsen has been personally boo-ed by Douglas Wright, toured the North and South Island as B1 in Bananas in Pyjamas,was described by a former member of the RNZB as an ‘arsehole with integrity’, and was recently falsely accused of heckling Guy Ryan in a performance. Operating from the self professed position of belonging to a privileged underclass of Western male artists,Larsen meshes an array of materials including movement, sound, and spoken text. Informed by a spectrum of thinking and practice that includes boxing, butoh, academia, and stand up comedy, Larsen continues developing several areas of artistic practice continuously. "Being a dancer isn’t easy," says Larsen, "but it helps."
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Faves

  • Article on Proximity
  • collab. w/ Simon Ellis
  • Contact Quarterly
  • Forced Entertainment
  • Gaga technique (video)
  • Improvisation research (Ellis)
  • Independance
  • Jerome Bel
  • Julyen Hamilton
  • Love & Aggression
  • Peter Ralston_Cheng Hsin
  • Synchronous Objects
  • The Philosophy of Improvisation
  • Vitamin S
  • wiki definition of contemporary dance
  • William Forsythe: Improvisation Technologies on youtube

Text as Interface

"Improvising choreography is like sculpting smoke. The idea is clearly there in front of you swirling and moving. It can be inhaled, felt in the lungs, tasted in the mouth. But it lacks substance, it cannot be grasped or molded. The only thing that can be physicalised is the effect the smoke had on your body whilst it was in there." Kristian Larsen

"Mimicry, I am more and more certain, is the fundamental performance of this cultural moment. At the heart of mimicry is a fear that the match will not hold and "the thing itself" (you, me, love, art) will disappear before we can reproduce it."
Peggy Phelan

"Either you're pretentious or a radical but straddling both lines makes you seem disingenuous to anyone familiar with either demographic"
Anon

"Whatever you are, whatever you commit to, it will somehow find a way to fuck you."
David Simon, The Wire

"They are not there to save us or perfect us (or damn or corrupt us), but rather to complicate things, to create more complex nervous systems no longer subservient to the debilitating effects of clichés, to show and release the possibilities of a life. "
John Rajchman

"But cultures have their problems. Probably their most difficult is their success. They become anal and decadent."
Steve Paxton

"The role of art is to serve no purpose - which is not to say that art lacks purpose...the political in art lies in its refusal to be an instrument. Art speaks only for itself. However this does not make it mere fantasy. Art is deeply committed to the world: it is definitely of the world."
Sally Gardener, Manifesto

"By universalizing the spirit of opposition, the avant-garde's project has transformed the practice of art into a purely negative enterprise, in which art is either oppositional or it is nothing. Celebrity replaces aesthetic achievement as the goal of art. "
Roger Kimball

Types of Failure
1. Accident
2. Mistake
3. Weakness
4. Inability
5. Incorrect method
6. Uselessness
7. Incompatibility
8. Embarrassment
9. Confusion
10. Redundancy
11. Obsolescence
12. Incoherence
13. Unrecognizability
14. Absurdity
15. Invisibility
16. Impermanence
17. Decay
18. Instability
19. Forgetability
20. Tardiness
21. Disappearance
22. Catastrophe
23. Uncertainty
24. Doubt
25. Fear
26. Distractability
Tim Etchells, Matthew Goulish

Brackets2 this time in Yvonne Rainer: (Artist as Exemplary Sufferer) (Artist as Self Absorbed Individualist) (Artist as Changer of the Subject) (Artist as Medium) (Artist as Ventriloquist) (Artist as Failed Primitive) (Artist as Failed Intellectual) Artist as Transcendental Ego (Artist as Misfit)
Christof Migone

Beckett- "I speak of an art weary of puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going a little further down a dreary road."

Duthuit- "And preferring what?"

Beckett- "The expression that there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express."
Samuel Beckett; 'Three Dialogues with Georges Duthuit'


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