Writing in motion
Subtitle: body--language--technology
By: Kenneth King ; with a foreword by Deborah Jowitt.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: King, Kenneth, -- 1948-; Dance criticism; Dance -- Philosophy
Description: "Kenneth King is one of America's most inventive postmodern choreographers. His dancing has always reflected his interest in language and technology, combining movement with film, machines, lighting and words both spoken and written. King is also conversant in philosophy, and some of his most influential dances have been dedicated to and in dialogue with the work of such philosophers as Susanne K. Langer, Edmund Husserl and Friedrich Nietzsche. Since the 1960s, he has performed his dance to texts both spoken and prerecorded - texts intended to stand separately as literary works." "Writing in Motion spans more than thirty years and is collected here for the first time. It includes essays, performance scripts of King's own work, art criticism, philosophy and cultural commentary. Dense with movement, these writings explode and reconfigure the familiar, crack syntax open, and invent startling new words. Dancing, to King, is "writing in space," and writing is a dance of ideas. Whether referencing Aristotle, Langer, Simone de Beauvoir, MTV, Maurice Blanchot or Marshall McLuhan, King's delightfully lavish prose is very much "in motion.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-198).
Table of contents: title: I: Transmedia; title: Digital body/millennial wor(l)d; title: Through me many voices; title: Word raid (impossible tongue twisters for E.E. Cummings); title: From out of the field of vision (or finally: the Internet); title: The telaxic synapsulator (the future of machine); title: II: Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex: Julie Taymor; title: Seiji Ozawa; title: Jessye Norman; title: Writing over history and time: Maurice Blanchot and Jackie O.; title: Dreams and collage; title: Sight and cipher; title: A pipe of fancy (vision's plenitude): Joseph Cornell, an appreciation; title: III: Autobiopathy; title: The body reflexive; title: Metagexis (Joseph's song); title: Appeal to the unknown prayer to the great void (mappings for a metatheology).