Alanna Thain
Biographic Data
| ID | 233787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alanna Thain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Thain |
| SIGNATURE | THAIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ecohorror's Minor Intimacies: Affective Embodiments, Ecological Desires
Curation as the Cure for the Archive
Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) is an independent artist run center in Montreal “dedicated to the promotion of videos created by women (in its most inclusive definition) by distributing and presenting them” (GIV website) At the crossroads of longevity, consistency, commitment, and the precarity that accompanies most forms of feminist labor, GIV is one of the most important “accidental” archives of feminist organizing and expression in Quebec. The…
Introduction: The Sleeper’s Unrest
A Bird's-Eye View ofLeviathan
How can we understand the ecosophical approach of a film like L eviathan , which refuses conventions of representational filmmaking? Drawing on R aymond R uyer's notion of survoler , or self‐survey, to describe a mode of witnessing without distance, this article explores two aspects of self‐survey in L ucien C astaing‐ T aylor and Véréna P aravel's groundbreaking work of sensory ethnography. Both the ubiquitous seagulls and the innovative use of …
Welcome to This Situation: Tino Sehgal's Impersonal Ethics
What of dance is welcomed in the museum, and what remains on the outside? Artist Tino Seghal's “constructed situations” redirect this question, reworking relations of inside and outside, participant and observer, subject and object through a collective bodily attending to the situation itself. This article explores the conspiratorial techniques activated by This Situation (2007) to consider how dance moves in and with the museum. These techniques…
Tendering the Flesh: The ABCs of Dave St-Pierre's Contemporary Utopias
Montreal choreographer Dave St-Pierre's La Pornographie des âmes (2004) launched his controversial dance-theatre trilogy, Sociology and Other Contemporary Utopias. His signature abecedery from Pornographie (A for Affect, B for Bruise, etc.) is remobilized to deploy the affective commotion of his remappings of social relations in provocative stagings of queerness, dis/ability, and desire
Wandering Stars: William Kentridge's Err(ant) Choreographies
The in-Tensions of Extensions: Compagnie Marie Chouinard's bODY Remix gOLDBERG vAriations
This essay explores the affective intensity of movement in a recent choreography by noted French Canadian choreographer Marie Chouinard. In bODY rEMIX/ gOLDBERG vARIATIONS, dancers perform with all manners of prosthetics and bodily extensions--crutches, ski poles, coat racks, pointe shoes worn by men and women, on one or two feet or on hands--to a score that remixes Glenn Gould's recordings of the Goldberg Variations with his recorded interviews.…
A Bird's-Eye View ofLeviathan
How can we understand the ecosophical approach of a film like L eviathan , which refuses conventions of representational filmmaking? Drawing on R aymond R uyer's notion of survoler , or self‐survey, to describe a mode of witnessing without distance, this article explores two aspects of self‐survey in L ucien C astaing‐ T aylor and Véréna P aravel's groundbreaking work of sensory ethnography. Both the ubiquitous seagulls and the innovative use of …
Welcome to This Situation: Tino Sehgal's Impersonal Ethics
What of dance is welcomed in the museum, and what remains on the outside? Artist Tino Seghal's “constructed situations” redirect this question, reworking relations of inside and outside, participant and observer, subject and object through a collective bodily attending to the situation itself. This article explores the conspiratorial techniques activated by This Situation (2007) to consider how dance moves in and with the museum. These techniques…
Wandering Stars: William Kentridge's Err(ant) Choreographies
The in-Tensions of Extensions: Compagnie Marie Chouinard's bODY Remix gOLDBERG vAriations
This essay explores the affective intensity of movement in a recent choreography by noted French Canadian choreographer Marie Chouinard. In bODY rEMIX/ gOLDBERG vARIATIONS, dancers perform with all manners of prosthetics and bodily extensions--crutches, ski poles, coat racks, pointe shoes worn by men and women, on one or two feet or on hands--to a score that remixes Glenn Gould's recordings of the Goldberg Variations with his recorded interviews.…
Tendering the Flesh: The ABCs of Dave St-Pierre's Contemporary Utopias
Montreal choreographer Dave St-Pierre's La Pornographie des âmes (2004) launched his controversial dance-theatre trilogy, Sociology and Other Contemporary Utopias. His signature abecedery from Pornographie (A for Affect, B for Bruise, etc.) is remobilized to deploy the affective commotion of his remappings of social relations in provocative stagings of queerness, dis/ability, and desire
Welcome to This Situation: Tino Sehgal's Impersonal Ethics
What of dance is welcomed in the museum, and what remains on the outside? Artist Tino Seghal's “constructed situations” redirect this question, reworking relations of inside and outside, participant and observer, subject and object through a collective bodily attending to the situation itself. This article explores the conspiratorial techniques activated by This Situation (2007) to consider how dance moves in and with the museum. These techniques…
A Bird's-Eye View ofLeviathan
How can we understand the ecosophical approach of a film like L eviathan , which refuses conventions of representational filmmaking? Drawing on R aymond R uyer's notion of survoler , or self‐survey, to describe a mode of witnessing without distance, this article explores two aspects of self‐survey in L ucien C astaing‐ T aylor and Véréna P aravel's groundbreaking work of sensory ethnography. Both the ubiquitous seagulls and the innovative use of …
Introduction: The Sleeper’s Unrest
Curation as the Cure for the Archive
Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV) is an independent artist run center in Montreal “dedicated to the promotion of videos created by women (in its most inclusive definition) by distributing and presenting them” (GIV website) At the crossroads of longevity, consistency, commitment, and the precarity that accompanies most forms of feminist labor, GIV is one of the most important “accidental” archives of feminist organizing and expression in Quebec. The…
Ecohorror's Minor Intimacies: Affective Embodiments, Ecological Desires
Art (4 works) · Dance (4 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Choreography (2 works) · Musicology and Musical Analysis (2 works)