Artist/Author: Eve Katsouraki | Editor: Nicolas Salazar Sutil | Reference: A0743 | Type: Article
Draws on Kira O’Reilly’s on-going bio-art performance experimentations and Matthew Herbert’s experimental music performance One Pig to rethink the theoretical and performative engagement with animals and the vitality of life in its broadest sense.
Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of ‘performance’ in the twenty-first century: not just an aesthetic category, but a mode of political power. He demonstrates the enduring ability of performance to critique and subvert this power, examining this relationship through five ‘singularities’ in contemporary dance: thingness, animality, persistence, darkness, and solidity.
