Intimate Encounters: Screendance and Surveillance
This article explores some ways in which screendance might invite a greater or deeper degree of kinesthetic empathy than is traditionally possible with live performance. In particular, the use of the close-up and the creation of editing rhythms are two strategies that extend screendance viewers'...
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| description | This article explores some ways in which screendance might invite a greater or deeper degree of kinesthetic empathy than is traditionally possible with live performance. In particular, the use of the close-up and the creation of editing rhythms are two strategies that extend screendance viewers' kinesthetic empathy into a more intimate relationship with the dance(rs). Furthermore, this article analyzes Katrina McPherson's screendance The Truth as a case study in which this intimate viewing relationship is characterized by a kind of voyeurism shared with the act of viewing surveillance. I draw on some surveillance theory and artist Jill Magid's piece Evidence Locker in order to explore the surveillance aspects of The Truth. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8c50ff5ac56c46e28a3c95a58b7794aa2022-12-21T23:15:50ZengThe Ohio State University LibrariesThe International Journal of Screendance2154-68782017-06-018010.18061/ijsd.v8i0.53643780Intimate Encounters: Screendance and SurveillanceJohn White0University of Edinburgh; Brown UniversityThis article explores some ways in which screendance might invite a greater or deeper degree of kinesthetic empathy than is traditionally possible with live performance. In particular, the use of the close-up and the creation of editing rhythms are two strategies that extend screendance viewers' kinesthetic empathy into a more intimate relationship with the dance(rs). Furthermore, this article analyzes Katrina McPherson's screendance The Truth as a case study in which this intimate viewing relationship is characterized by a kind of voyeurism shared with the act of viewing surveillance. I draw on some surveillance theory and artist Jill Magid's piece Evidence Locker in order to explore the surveillance aspects of The Truth.http://screendancejournal.org/article/view/5364screendancesurveillancekinesthetic empathyvoyeurism |
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| title | Intimate Encounters: Screendance and Surveillance |
| title_full | Intimate Encounters: Screendance and Surveillance |
| title_fullStr | Intimate Encounters: Screendance and Surveillance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Intimate Encounters: Screendance and Surveillance |
| title_short | Intimate Encounters: Screendance and Surveillance |
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| topic | screendance surveillance kinesthetic empathy voyeurism |
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