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Asking exactly what we mean by political art or the politics of art, Rancière goes on to look at what the tradition of critical art, and the desire to insert art into life, has achieved. Has the militant critique of the consumption of images and commodities become, ironically, a sad affirmation of its omnipotence?

Digital Reference refers to folder containing four movies. Manuel Vason recording (see also British Library footage, D1619).

Digital reference is folder containing four movies. Footage by Manuel Vason, (see also British Library recording, D1618).

Digital Reference refers to folder containing four movies. British Library Recording (see also Manuel Vason footage, EF5039).

Digital reference is folder containing four movies. British Library Recording (see also footage by Manuel Vason, EF5038)

Ron Athey interviewed by Russell McEwan.

Excerpts from performances Still/Desire (2005),  Imbolc (2008) and Raven (2010).

Artist archive.

Based on a reproduction of original choreographic material of Le Sacre du Printemps and the personal story of Nijinsky, Liquid Loft, together with dancers of Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, stage impressive Ready Mades, by rediscovering them as containers of bygone choreographic intentions in a changed context, weaving them into contemporary structures.
Dance as an imitation of change; the sacrifice as an instrument of equalization through retaliation against the innocent. These are the archaic means of mimetic practice in this performance.