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The other within : the genius of deformity in myth, culture & psycheDaniel Deardorff knows otherness firsthand. This highly regarded “singer” in the old sense of that word—musician, storyteller, maker of ritual—had polio as an infant and has used a wheelchair most of his life, giving him a lived perspective that deeply informs his views on this subject. In The Other Within, Deardorff starts with a radical notion: to disclose the blessings of outsiderhood, the many gifts and insights contributed to culture by the marginalized and outcast. Unlike studies that stress the plight of the outsider, this one asserts that to be cast down and out of the consensus-worldview affords a difficult yet significant opportunity: to encounter oneself, not as defined by society but as one actually is. An eloquent spokesman for “the man or woman on the weird road,” Deardorff presents dozens of powerful examples from myth and literature to illustrate his message in a richly allusive, complex series of essays. Drawing on the work of mythologians, poets, psychologists, and scholars, The Other Within takes readers on an initiatory journey, uncovering the roots of human identity and imagination and offering insights–including “trickster wisdom”—revealing the mythic underpinnings of everyday life. [editor summary]
I am a body of landf poetry is a place to question, I Am a Body of Land by Shannon Webb-Campbell is an attempt to explore a relationship to poetic responsibility and accountability, and frame poetry as a form of re-visioning. Here Webb-Campbell revisits the text of her earlier work Who Took My Sister? to examine her self, her place and her own poetic strategies. These poems are efforts to decolonize, unlearn, and undoo harm. Reconsidering individual poems and letters, Webb-Campbell's confessional writing circles back, and challenges what it means to ask questions of her own settler-Indigenous identity, belonging, and attempts to cry out for community, and call in with love. [editor summary]
Support and alignment : in search of balance : sensation, development and creation in equilibristrics : pedagogical guide"It is on the basis of field observations and concrete pedagogical issues that several texts are suggested to deepen, explain or question the notions linked with balance, while giving the floor to those who have animated or participated in the training. While this book is not meant to describe the exercises involved in these practice times, their observation has made it possible to draw threads and to propose different tools that can be transferred to the pedagogical practices of each one. The two main parts of the manual are: building balance and developing a connection with balance. More than methods that impose rules or protocols, these sensitive approaches allow, at a given moment, to formalise the practices and to spread them. For all that, they go far beyond speech and writing and find their full realisation only when the body is in motion. "
The manual makes it possible to formalise the practices of the professionals of today and to disseminate them. The proposals are transferable from one apparatus to another and from one practice to another and allow to start a transversal reflection on aerial skills or, more generally, on the way in which the circus arts are constantly facing, the stakes and difficulties of vertical work, weight and gravity. [editor summary]
Craft A secret history of craft told through lost and overlooked texts that illuminate our understanding of current art practice.
“Craft” is a contested concept in art history and a vital category through which to understand contemporary art. Through craft, materials, techniques, and tools are investigated and their histories explored in order to reflect on the politics of labor and on the extraordinary complexity of the made world around us. This anthology offers an ethnography of craft, surveying its shape-shifting identities in the context of progressive art and design through writings by artists and makers as well as poetry, fiction, anthropology, and sociology. It maps a secret history of craft through lost and overlooked texts that consider pedagogy, design, folk art, the factory, and new media in ways that illuminate our understanding of current art practice.
Recently, the idea of craft has been employed strategically: to confront issues of gender or global development, to make a stand against artistic academicism, or to engage with making processes—some distinctly archaic—employed to suggest the abject and the everyday. Craft activism, or craftivism, suggests a new political purpose for the handmade. Deep anxieties drive today's technophilia, and artists, designers, and makers turn such anxieties into a variety of dynamic engagements. The contributors' reflections on new technologies and materials, lost and found worlds of handwork, and the politics of work all throw light on craft as process, product, and ideology. Craft will serve as a vital resource for understanding technologies, materials, techniques, and tools through the lens of craft in contemporary art. [editor summary]
Jaune : histoire d'une couleurAujourd'hui, en Europe, le jaune est une couleur peu présente dans la vie quotidienne et guère sollicitée par le monde des symboles. Il n'en a pas toujours été ainsi. Les peuples de l'Antiquité voyaient en lui une couleur presque sacrée, celle de la lumière, de la chaleur et de la prospérité. Les Grecs et les Romains lui accordaient une place importante dans les rituels religieux, tandis que les Celtes et les Germains l'associaient à l'or et à l'immortalité. Le déclin du jaune date du Moyen Âge qui en fait une couleur ambivalente. D'un côté, le mauvais jaune, celui de la bile amère et du soufre démoniaque : il est signe de mensonge, d'avarice, de félonie, parfois de maladie ou de folie. De l'autre, le bon jaune, celui de l'or, du miel et des blés mûrs : il est signe de pouvoir, de joie, d'abondance.
Toutefois, à partir du XVIe siècle, la place du jaune dans la culture matérielle ne cesse de reculer. La Réforme protestante, la Contre-Réforme catholique, plus tard les « valeurs bourgeoises » du XIXe siècle le tiennent en peu d'estime. Même si la science le range au nombre des couleurs primaires, sa symbolique reste équivoque. De nos jours encore, le jaune verdâtre est ressenti comme désagréable ou dangereux car il porte en lui quelque chose de maladif ou de toxique ; au contraire, le jaune qui se rapproche de l'orangé passe pour tonique, joyeux et bienfaisant, à l'image des fruits de cette couleur.
Abondamment illustré, Jaune est le cinquième ouvrage d'une série commencée en 2000 et consacrée à l'histoire des couleurs en Europe, de l'Antiquité à nos jours. Il fait suite à Bleu. Histoire d'une couleur (2000), Noir. Histoire d'une couleur (2008), Vert. Histoire d'une couleur (2013) et Rouge. Histoire d'une couleur (2016). [résumé de l'éditeur]
The art of feminism : images that shaped the fight for equality, 1857-2017Since its inception, the women's movement has harnessed the power of the image to transmit its message. From the posters of the Suffrage Atelier, to the photographs of Carrie Mae Weems, this comprehensive survey traces the ways in which feminists have shaped art and visual culture from the mid-nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Featuring more than 350 works of art, illustration, photography, performance, graphic design, and publlic protest, this stunning volume showcases the vibrancy and daring of the feminist aesthetic over the last 150 years. [editor summary]
Dispositifs sonores : corps, scènes, atmosphèresCet ouvrage résulte d’un constat aussi simple que déconcertant : alors que le son joue au théâtre un rôle généralement aussi important que le visuel, il est à peu près absent des travaux
critiques, historiques et théoriques. Et pourtant, cet univers sonore en est un très complexe et étonnant, et vaut la peine qu’on s’y attarde.
L’émergence de ce qu’il est aujourd’hui convenu d’appeler les études sonores en théâtre fait de l’auralité de la représentation – ce qu’on y entend et comment on l’entend – une question majeure au sein de la recherche universitaire qui se consacre aux arts vivants. Ce « tournant sonore » touche autant la conception du spectacle que sa représentation, sa réception que son archivage
L’ouvrage repose sur deux dimensions : d’abord, celle de la réflexion théorique, plus générale ; puis, celle de l’expérimentation, qui ancre progressivement la pensée dans une réalité sonore particulière. Les quatorze textes de théoriciens et d’artistes, en passant de l’abstraction des concepts au concret de leur réalisation, témoignent de la fluidité et de la diversité qui concernent autant les agencements dynamiques et mouvants appelés ici « dispositifs » que les réalités sonores qu’ils engendrent. [résumé de l'éditeur]
Contemporary circusIn this volume, twenty-four creators come together with three scholars to discuss Contemporary Circus, bridging the divide between practice and theory.
Lavers, Leroux, and Burtt offer conversations across four key themes: Apparatus, Politics, Performers, and New Work. Extensively illustrated with fifty photos of Contemporary Circus productions, and extensively annotated, Contemporary Circus thematically groups and contextualises extracts of conversations to provide a sophisticated and wide-ranging study supported by critical theory.
Of interest to both practitioners and scholars, Contemporary Circus uses the lens of ‘contestation,’ or calling things into question, to provide a portal into ways of seeing today’s circus performance.
Conversations with: Lachlan Binns and Jascha Boyce (Gravity and Other Myths), Tilde Björfors (Cirkus Cirkör), Kim ‘Busty Beatz’ Bowers (Hot Brown Honey), Shana Carroll (The 7 Fingers), David Clarkson (Stalker), Philippe Decouflé (Compagnie DCA), Fez Faanana (Briefs), Mike Finch (Circus Oz), Daniele Finzi Pasca (Compagnia Finzi Pasca), Sean Gandini (Gandini Juggling), Firenza Guidi (ElanFrantoio, NoFit State Circus), Jo Lancaster and Simon Yates (Acrobat), Johann Le Guillerm (Cirque Ici), Yaron Lifschitz (Circa), Chelsea McGuffin (Company 2), Phia Ménard (Compagnie Non Nova), Jennifer Miller (Circus Amok), Adrien Mondot (Compagnie Adrien M and Claire B), Charlotte Mooney and Tina Koch (Ockham’s Razor), Philippe Petit (high wire artist), and Elizabeth Streb (STREB EXTREME ACTION). [editor summary]
Acrobates L’exposition Acrobates est réalisée par les musées municipaux de Châlons-en-Champagne en partenariat avec le Centre national des arts du cirque (Cnac) et en co-commissariat avec Pascal Jacob, historien du cirque et directeur artistique du cirque Phénix et du Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain. À travers les collections des musées municipaux et l’incroyable collection privée Jacob-William, le thème de l’acrobate se décline sous toutes ses formes.
Acrobates met en lumière une sélection d’œuvres de typologies, époques et origines différentes, qui mettent toutes à l’honneur le geste acrobatique. Depuis les sculptures étrusques du ve siècle avant notre ère jusqu’aux œuvres de Picasso, Matisse ou Derain, le thème de l’acrobate est une inépuisable source d’inspiration.
Ce catalogue présente également des prêts de grands musées nationaux et internationaux, grâce à la participation de nombreuses institutions : Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac (Paris), MUCEM (Marseille), Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire de Bruxelles, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Musée National des Arts Asiatiques – Guimet (Paris), Musée Picasso-Paris, Musée du Louvre (Paris), Musée des arts et métiers – Cnam (Paris), Musée Rodin (Paris), Bibliothèque municipale d’Angers, Musée Rolin d’Autun, ainsi que la collection privée « Circus Art Museum J.Y. et G. Borg ». [résumé de l'éditeur]
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