The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819577758 ISBN 13: 9780819577757

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 2018

Synopsis

All modes of human inquiry, from the artistic to the scientific, are archived as body knowledge. The Sentient Archive gathers together the work of scholars and practitioners in dance, performance, science, and the visual arts. These twenty-eight rich and challenging essays cross boundaries within and between disciplines, mediating the theoretical and the experiential to illustrate how the body serves as a repository for knowledge. In drawing connections between body and archive, the essayists consider how and why the moving body generates and stores information for recall, retrieval, or reenactment. The writers address issues of history, memory, and agency, but the knowing body, performed or reenacted, remains a focal point. Contributors include Nancy Goldner, Alain Platel, Catherine Stevens, Meg Stuart, Andre Lepecki, Ralph Lemon, and other notable scholars and artists.

About this title

Review:

"This volume presents a marvelous and diverse group of thinkers who, as artists and scholars, are reckoning with the dancing body as a site of knowing, remembering, and performing. Their comments yield deep insights into the nature of physicality and also the rich possibilities for writing about dance."--Susan Leigh Foster, distinguished professor in the department of world arts and cultures/dance at UCLA

About the Author:

BILL BISSELL is the director of Performance at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. LINDA CARUSO HAVILAND is an associate professor at Bryn Mawr College and the founder and director of the dance program.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0819577758
• ISBN 13: 9780819577757
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Bissell Bill, Haviland Linda Caruso