#laura stokes

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Redoubt (2019)

[dare-g]

Redoubt (2019)

[dare-g]

Redoubt (2019)

[athleticplayground]

Workshop with Laura Stokes!

November 30th, 4:15pm!

Using the physical body as a template for exploring performative range, we will look at diversifying typical contortion positions and imbuing them with specificity and meaning. We will investigate flexibility as an avenue for occupying our furthest physiological reaches, ultimately leading to broadening not only the range of body but also of mind and art maker, redefining the flexible body as a potent expressive vehicle rather than mere spectacle.

No prerequisites

$90 ($75 for members)

To sign up: http://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=4796&stype=-115&sView=day&sTrn=100000194

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[athleticplayground]

Flexibility as Choreography

with Laura Stokes

Special Guest!

    11/30 (Sun) 4:15-7:15pm

Sign Up!

Using the physical body as a template for exploring performative range, we will look at diversifying typical contortion positions and imbuing them with specificity and meaning. We will investigate flexibility as an avenue for occupying our furthest physiological reaches, ultimately leading to broadening not only the range of body but also of mind and art maker, redefining the flexible body as a potent expressive vehicle rather than mere spectacle.

No prerequisites

$90 ($75 for members)

$20 of by 11/15

[nickkahler]

Not only farmers, but also the rich men in the [medieval] city understood that land belonged to families in ways that debt could not erase.

Laura Stokes, Quote from "Greed wasn’t good in the Middle Ages," 2012 (via medievalists)

The implications of this quote are fairly paradoxical, wherein the proto-capitalist idea of ownership is emphasized but at the expense of a larger socialistic notion that it cannot be modified through the fluctuations of the "free market." This quote begins to question our basic identification with the idea of ownership in a profound way. Traditionally, Plato "thought private property created divisive inequalities," not unlike many contemporary liberals, while Aristotle believed "private property enabled people to receive the full benefit of their labor," a concept championed by a majority of contemporary conservatives. One's interpretation of these two polemical statements would most likely determine one's economical stance.

However, one's fundamental connection to the earth introduces another level of complexity to the discussion. Would people be more or less likely to respect their plot of land if it were financially immutable? Could these medieval notions of ownership improve interpersonal or international relationships? When would this theory of historical ownership be determined? Could that spawn a completely new society and a new calendar organized after the "Day of Spatio-Economic Judgement," where current ownership dictates perpetual ownership? How would wars be fought if national lines couldn't be altered, and if they couldn't be fought, or at least in the way we conceive it now, would that be an avenue toward world peace? Would city growth be stopped, or forced to turn back upon itself? Could suburban sprawl cease, or at least be caught dead in its tracks? What about people that currently do not own land, but hope to one day acquire it? Would they be forced to live imprisoned to perpetual leases or rent? What about if one decided to "quit the game" as it were, and leave the land alone? Would that create islands of absence amidst a sea of intense ownership, pockets of wilderness speckling the landscape and cityscape like stars in the sky or lily pads in a pond? Would squatting on this abandoned land be acceptable, and would that modify squatter's rights to obtaining property ownership? The potential for loopholes seems almost equal to the possibilities, but the simple presence of ownership dictating such powerful societal constructs as World War / World Peace and Suburban Sprawl indicates an idea pregnant with new (and yet ancient) examinations of life on earth.

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