Mobile New York

To create art in a “minor” mode is to make of one’s citizenship a permanent nomadic project. It is to travel long distances, across cultures, languages, dialects, ethnicities, flavors, even while staying put in the middle of the city. Or, conversely, it is to create a set of New York expatriates who, despite no longer being in the city physically, continue to permanently return to it, re-live it, expand it, re-invent it, and re-dimension it, true nomads making New York their ground and ever fertile territory.

nomadic new york then. just like that. with no capital letters.
André Lepecki

From André Lepecki, movement in new york.
http://www.hkw.de/en/ressourcen/archiv2007/new_york/texte_5/lepecki.php


here we are, ping-ponging across the planet. according to the 2000 census, 35.9% of new york city residents are foreign-born but the multitudes of us who are foreign-born somewhere else are impossible to quantify. we're whole by ourselves but in motion we make another whole - our city.

sleep.
steep.
seep.
leap.

Movement in the Virtual Body

I'm musing on the following...

How should dancers relate to the avatars they create online via Facebook, blogs, etc. What is our relationship to these electronic bodies? If the electronic has become part of us and is increasingly confused with out physical limits (headsets, bluetooth, computer chips that tell our blood type and criminal record) - how do we dance with it?

What of YouTube choreography? We have the ability now to slice and remix movement (just google Obama dancing). How does this movement of the electronic body affect perception of the organic body?

Comments welcome!