Choreographing Intersubjectivity in Performance Art

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: Exhibitions and the Choreographic Turn

   • Victoria Wynne-Jones

   Pages 1-42

3. Museum Bodies: Choreo-Policing and Choreo-Politics

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   Pages 43-77

4. Xavier Le Roy and the Male Subject as Performance Artist

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   Pages 79-101

5. Human, Non-human and Post-human Moving Together: Tino Sehgal and Alicia Frankovich

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   Pages 103-143

6. From Elsewhere to Here: Rebecca Hobbs’ Networked and Post-Internet Choreographies

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   Pages 145-177

7. Articulating Alternatives: val smith’s Queer Choreographies

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   Pages 179-204

8. Walking the Wall and Crossing the Threshold: Angela Tiatia, Kalisolaite ‘Uhila and Shigeyuki Kihara’s Counter-Hegemonic Choreographies

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   Pages 205-232

9. Conclusion: Unsettling the Museum

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   Pages 233-239

10. Back Matter

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This book offers new ways of thinking about dance-related artworks that have taken place in galleries, museums and biennales over the past two decades as part of the choreographic turn. It focuses on the concept of intersubjectivity and theorises about what happens when subjects meet within a performance artwork. The resulting relations are crucial to instances of performance art in which embodied subjects engage as spectators, participants and performers in orchestrated art events.
 
Choreographing Intersubjectivity in Performance Art deploys a multi-disciplinary approach across dance choreography and evolving manifestations of performance art. An innovative, overarching concept of choreography sustains the idea that intersubjectivity evolves through places, spaces, performance and spectatorship. Drawing upon international examples, the book introduces readers to performance art from the South Pacific and the complexities of de-colonising choreography. Artists Tino Sehgal, Xavier Le Roy, Jordan Wolfson, Alicia Frankovich and Shigeyuki Kihara are discussed.

• Choreography
• Intersubjectivity
• Dance-related artwork
• Museums
• Galleries
• Exhibitions
• Performance art
• Subjecthood
• Theory of the self
• Posthumanism
• Decolonising choreography
• Queer choreography
• Post-internet choreography

• School of Humanities, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

  Victoria Wynne-Jones

Victoria Wynne-Jones is an Auckland-based art historian, curator and writer. She currently lectures in the disciplinary areas of Art History, Fine Arts and Dance Studies. Her research focuses on the intersections between dance studies and performance art as well as curatorial practice, feminisms, contemporary art theory and philosophy.

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