Simone Forti Goes to the Zoo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4300855 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julia Bryan-Wilson (JULIA BRYAN-WILSON is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (University of California, 2009) and editor of October Files: Robert Morris (MIT, 2013). Her article on Yvonne Rainer's Trio A appeared in October 140., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 152 |
| Pages | 26-52 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | October (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2870 • E-ISSN: 1536-013X |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/octo_a_00215 |
| OpenAlex | W1845900310 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
In 1968, choreographer and dancer Simone Forti moved from the United States back to Italy. During her brief stay in Rome, she spent time observing animals in the zoo, as well as working and performing among Arte Povera sculptures. This article investigates how Forti's encounters in Italy with new methods of movement and materiality, including models of collaboration between animate subjects and inanimate objects, became pivotal to her procedures of constructing dance
Aesthetics · Art · Dance · Humanities · Materiality (auditing · Sculpture · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Art, Technology, and Culture · Artistic and Creative Research
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |