Queering Distances and Disoriented Dancing Bodies: Matija Ferlin’s Relational Performances Sad Sam Revisited and The Other for One Cover Image

Queering Distances and Disoriented Dancing Bodies: Matija Ferlin’s Relational Performances Sad Sam Revisited and The Other for One
Queering Distances and Disoriented Dancing Bodies: Matija Ferlin’s Relational Performances Sad Sam Revisited and The Other for One

Author(s): Leo Rafolt
Subject(s): Aesthetics, Contemporary Philosophy
Published by: Fakultet za medije i komunikacije - Univerzitet Singidunum
Keywords: disorientation; queering; dance; embodiment; trauma.

Summary/Abstract: The paper argues spatial parameters in defining queer identity, especially in Anglo-American critical discourse, eager to employ it as a strategy for queer performance, or notable, modern, or contemporary dance hermeneutics. Leaning on traditional queer researchers, e.g., Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and José Esteban Muñoz, to name just a few of them, as well as on materialist concepts of the body, affects, the human touch, etc., a deep analysis of two Matija Ferlin’s performance projects is offered, precisely from a perspective of queer resistance to dominant heteronormative paradigms of -’orientation’-, -’identification-’, and ’affectuality’.

  • Issue Year: 2024
  • Issue No: 33
  • Page Range: 117-138
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: English
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