[dance-tech] aura
- From: "Jaime del Val" <jaimedelval@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <dance-tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:33:48 +0200
Hi all,
i start getting back to the mails.
I don't know if I understand what you mean by the aura, Jeannette, It is not a
concept I have worked with a great deal. Could you define more exactly what
meaning you imply?
As far as i understand it the aura is linked to symbolic value, and therefore
what I imply in the transmedia context of postsubjectivities would be
incompatible with the aura as I see it related to objects that aquire a
symbolic significance because of the disciplinary and cultural territories that
they construct and maintain: the "Work of Art" understood as an object that is
unique, but fixed and preexisting our exchanges with it is an essential
intrument of power within High Culture western traditions.
What I propose is the opposite: If you are part of a process, and the "work" is
that very process which is also your "self" and becoming, there is no
exteriority to the process or to the work, but an interdependence of forces in
the relation of which both the self and the work emerge, but never sedimenting
into something complete and fixed.
Did I get near an answer?
The question of the aura is tricky, for instance to go back to Benjamin's idea
of the dissapearance of the aura (which as I say I have not worked with a great
deal) I think in the context of media culture and the proliferation of
repeatable images, ubiquitous, collapsing our cortex with serial repetition,
new forms of aura emerge, new forms of symbolic value, the images repeat
themselves as icons of gods that are devoid of ideal, but the market forces
that drive them fill them with phantom desires that make us believe they are
real... in fact in Baudrillard's words they are more than real, they are
hiperreal, they have replaced reality, the real is only what occurs in the
fiction of the total screen, what is subject to endless serialisations... while
our real lives seem more and more unreal... this kind of empty symbolic value,
the tecnoaura of the images, and the sounds, is the new form of colonisation of
bodies and territories, an instrumental aura of a new kind of power, that we
must yet learn to deal with.
all best
jaime
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeannette Ginslov
To: dance-tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:09 A
Subject: [dance-tech] Re: Thread1:
Posthuman-Postbody-Postself---Postchoreography
Hi Jaime
This just struck me after your words:
"in a transdisciplinary, transmedia context, where the écriture in which
novel forms of proprioception....can work in between to create novel zones,
bodies and architectures for new kinds of post-subjectivity...cross-modal
perception may be enacted, then we are transgressing the frontiers of the
discipline of choreography, and indeed the established territories and
anatomies of the body in a deeper sense."
Is this the return of the aura of works of art?
Does post-choreography calls back the notion of the "aura" or the auratic
moment for the one interacting?
Each moment produced will be irreproducible?
There is structure but the product changes slightly each time, reveals a
unique experience to each
body/person interacting. Each interaction owned by the body/person that is
agent and co-author, co- choreographer.
Also taking a break...too much work calls.
best
jeannette
PS thanks Johannes for your wonderful and supportive feedback. Much
appreciated.
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