Choreographic Gestures of Resurgence and Repair
Arkadi Zaides’s research-based performance project: Necropolis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21687677 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christel Stalpaert (0000-0003-3733-4103, Ghent University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 102-111 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-18 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Performance Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1352-8165 • E-ISSN: 1469-9990 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13528165.2021.2059169 |
| OpenAlex | W4285377603 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
With the Institut des Croisements, choreographer, dancer and curator Arkadi Zaides unfolds a continuing engagement in human rights issues. His latest performance, Necropolis, considers the 'movements of people who are systematically and brutally stopped by border policies' (Zaides in Noeth 2020: 51). The starting point of every performance is extensive research into local cases of deaths of migrants. An important aspect of Necropolis lies in the choreographic gestures of care for these dead, performed by everything and everyone involved in the research-based performance and the long-durational performance project. In this contribution, I trace the critical, reparative and resurgent potential of these choreographic gestures of care for and with the dead. With the notion of resurgence, which I borrow from anthropologist Anna Tsing, I expand the notion of repairing to agency of 'dead' material. Following Donna Haraway's New Materialist rendering of Tsing's concept of resurgence, the choreographic gestures of resurgence and repair in Necropolis are of particular value in the scorched, parched, drowned and infected landscape we currently inhabit
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Gesture · Linguistics · Materialism · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Water Governance and Infrastructure
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |