v0iddreamer

quietly capitulating before Destiny

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toilet selfies project -- private/public ;; excess ;; refuse/re-fuse ;; woman-as-leaking-body

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Police choreography, police dynamics, police kinetics. We can now say, expanding Rancière’s thought, that choreopolicing imposes a forced ontological fitting between pregiven movements, bodies in conformity, and pre-assigned places for circulation. In contradistinction, we can say that choreopolitics requires a redistribution and reinvention of bodies, affects, and senses through which one may learn how to move politically, how to invent, activate, seek, or experiment with a movement whose only sense (meaning and direction) is the experimental exercise of freedom. As Rancière clarifies: 'Politics, by contrast to the police, consists in transforming this space of moving along, of circulation, into the space for the appearance of a subject' (37, Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics ). It is the dancer who, in the most policed, controlled spaces [has] the potential to activate the appearing not necessarily of a subject, but of the highly mobile political thing. The choreopolitical task of the dancer simultaneously answers Hannah Arendt’s call for claiming kinetic knowledge on how to move towards freedom, but also demonstrates, perhaps against Arendt, that somehow, somewhere, someone always finds a way to move politically.

Andrew Lepecki, 'Choreopolice and Choreopolitics, or, the task of the dancer

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Morality is violence. An invisible violence as first. Love is a supreme violence, hidden deep in the darkness of our atoms. When a stream flows into a river, it’s love and it’s violence. When a cloud loses itself in the sky, it’s a marriage. When the roots of a tree split open a rock it’s the movement of life. When the sea rises and falls back only to rise again it’s the process of History. When a man and a woman find each other in the silence of the night, it’s the beginning of the end of the tribe’s power, and death itself becomes a challenge to the ascendancy of the group.

Sitt Marie Rose, Etel Adnan