{"id":1492,"date":"2016-04-05T14:48:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T12:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nivel.teak.fi\/carpa4\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:01:22","slug":"house-music-a-performance-lindsey-drury-and-no-collective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nivel.teak.fi\/carpa4\/house-music-a-performance-lindsey-drury-and-no-collective\/","title":{"rendered":"House Music: A Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Performers: Lindsey Drury (USA), Johanna Gilje (Germany), and You Nakai (USA)
Composer\/Choreographer: You Nakai, Society for the Promotion of Sciences (USA) + Lindsey Drury, PhD Student, Erasmus Mundus Program in Text and Event in Early Modern Europe (Germany\/UK) + Kay Festa, Independent Scholar (USA\/UK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Abstract<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

No Collective [You Nakai, Kay Festa, Earl Lipski, Jay Barnacle, et al] and Lindsey Drury (Dreary Somebody) present a performance of music and dance involving multiple inhuman dancer\/musicians and human performers [Johanna Gilje, Lindsey Drury, You Nakai]. Within the work, the inhuman dancers move in seemingly random trajectories through a performance space without programmed pathways or the manipulation of a controller. Through their interaction with the human dancers, the work reframes \u201cimprovisation with objects,\u201d as one cannot fully predict the movement of the objects, or their response to contact with human bodies and other objects. Regardless as to the internal mechanism that drives the objects, the experience on the outside is that they are \u201cmaking choices.\u201d The focus of this work is to create a situation which challenges the performer\u2019s ability to enact her will over the objects with which she performs, along with the tendency of audiences to identify human performers as enactors and objects as receptors of action. The resulting work reveals how the ability to move unpredictably can assert an object its own will. The question of agency traditionally oriented toward the bodies of human movers (\u201cWhy does she move like that?\u201d) is thus expanded. Despite the necessity in this description to differentiate between the inhuman and human performers, the point of the piece is to explore and problematize common notions of what constitutes a body. The work was developed through the concept that the delineation of body is based in the perception of a certain agency that controls a given movement. All the moving objects in the piece, whether inhuman performers, human performers, or human (and inhuman) audience, appear to have agency because the source of their movements is instilled within themselves. The most important thing accomplished in the piece is not that the inhuman performers \u201cbecome human,\u201d but instead that the humans present in the room face the fact that they are also objects. Therefore, the work does not reinforce the difference between human and inhuman, but instead dissolves that very distinction through an expanded definition of body and its basis in movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

YouTube video: House Music (C) | No Collective & Lindsey Drury | CARPA4, University of the Arts, Helsinki | June 6, 2015<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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