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Art of Life, Art of War: Movement, Un/Common Forms, and Infrastructure
Angela Mitropoulos
The Serpentine Dance hinted at an exoticism, but was often read as sublimation in the chemical sense: a phase transition between a solid body and a gaseous apparition, without quite passing through a liquid state. If the Serpentine Dance emerged in the turbulence of transatlantic crossings and the ports of empire, its characterization as a rapid circuit from a fixed body to air would treat liquescence as an inclination or step toward the figural, a referential tendency toward the affirmation of ideal forms rather than delight in afformation.
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 4, 2018
Category
Dance, Film, Modernism, Philosophy, War & Conflict