1st Edition

LO: TECH: POP: CULT Screendance Remixed

Edited By Priscilla Guy, Alanna Thain Copyright 2024
350 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

350 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

350 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This edited collection assembles international perspectives from artists, academics, and curators in the field to bring the insights of screendance theory and practice back into conversations with critical methods, at the intersections of popular culture, low-tech media practices, dance, and movement studies, and the minoritarian perspectives of feminism, queer theory, critical race studies and... Read more

List of Contributors

Foreword

 

Introduction

 

1.     “Let Me in Through Your Window”: Dancing with Kate Bush and Hatsune Miku

Hilary Bergen

 

2.     The Queer Art of Hospitality: “If You Can Fuck, You Can Dance!”

Luce DeLire

 

3.     Kinesthetic Empathy as Human Connection in Digital Space

Cara Hagan

 

4.     The Value of a Cheap Trick: Reverse Motion from Lo Tech SFX to Speculative Spectacle

Alanna Thain

 

5.     Little Visions and Grandiose Perceptions: An Interview with Manon Labrecque by Priscilla Guy

Manon Labrecque and Priscilla Guy

 

6.     Canonising BTS: FOMO in the Archives of Digital Convenience

Yutian Wong

 

7.     Keeping in time: Mastery, as a condition of colonial and patriarchal discourse, and the temporality of screendance

Anna Macdonald

 

8.     Bill Robinson: Icon of Dignity

Karla Etienne

9.     The Ghost(s) of Alice Guy: Reminiscences of a Feminist Screendance Pioneer

Priscilla Guy

 

10.  In a World of Dancing Waves and DIY Addiction: An Interview with Sonya Stefan by Priscilla Guy

Sonya Stefan and Priscilla Guy

 

11.  “Take Me to the Place Where the White Boys Dance”: Tom Hanks’s Manchild

Addie Tsai

 

12.  Traces, Memories, and Rediscovered Gestures: A Creative Practice of Archiving and Sensitive Writing

Camille Auburtin

 

13.  Terrance Houle’s Ghost Dancing in A Wagon Burner Landscape

Jessica Jacobson-Konefall

 

14.  Desire to Heal, Desire to be Seen, Desire to Dance: An Interview with Kijâtai-Alexandra Veillette-Cheezo by Priscilla Guy

Kijâtai-Alexandra Veillette-Cheezo and Priscilla Guy

 

15.  From _ Ryan Clayton To _ Emilie Morin

Ryan Clayton and Emilie Morin

 

16.  Filming Consciousness: Between Phonesia and Talking Camera — Organological Cinema

Anatoli Vlassov

 

17.  The matter of analogue media technologies in Screendance, post Martin Heidegger and post Hito Steyerl

Claudia Kappenberg

 

18.  Moving Mirror or Screendance as Performance Methodology: An Interview with Nadège Grebmeier Forget by Alanna Thain

Nadège Grebmeier Forget and Alanna Thain

 

Index

Biography

Priscilla Guy is a Canadian artist and researcher holding a PhD in feminist screendance from Université de Lille. She is co-founder and director of Regards Hybrides, a project that aims to promote the expression, development, and outreach of practices and discourses that border between dance and cinema. With its web platform, its international biennial, and its range of services for artists and presenters, Regards Hybrides is the only project of its kind in Canada.

Alanna Thain is Associate Professor of English, World Cinemas and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at McGill University. She is co-founder and director of the Moving Image Research Lab, dedicated to the studying of the body in moving image media, and directs the FRQSC research team CORERISC: Collective for Research on Epistemologies and Ontologies of Embodied Risk. She is the author of Bodies in Suspense: Time and Affect in Cinema (2017).