Bodies and images
I’m working in the studio on the idea of certain clicheed images of chinese people that can be shown in a body posture or movement. For example pride (and that links to monika’s last post) or being obedient. interesting about it is that very simplified those two themes are represented exactly oppositly from eachother: obedient – a curved body and proud – an arched body. I would like to explore these two postures and see how far I can distort them that the watcher is still perceiving the original idea or only a sensation of the original, a distorted image of it.
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As I explained in the last post, I think chinese pride derives from this very strong believe in loyalty to China. I think it is a matter of choice. Loyalty to China has nothing to do with an obedient attitude, but is more a commitment with Chinese tradition. Then the reverence for Chinas culture and tradition is very strong.
Anyway, i like the idea about body movement and posture. In the last conference we talked about moving images, to create a dance with the images. Dance is about movement, about the body, I think we have to talk about this in our next conference!!!
yes, it’s an interesting juxtaposition, that it would be a cliché to see chinese as being very obedient, maybe in terms of filial piety or hierarchies, but as a nation, chinese people are extremely proud, often nationalistic. there is a widespread view that China has been through a rough history but will rise again in cultural/economic/social power. How this fits into the body, I’m wondering? I think exploring tensions in the body, yes perhaps in the example of arching, or standing straight and firm. but regarding the “unspoken” and less visible parts of our case (the overseas case), i think it’s also interesting to see how not necessarily visible tensions created in the body can influence movement/behaviour on the outside. that’s why i liked the idea of the piece you told me from gabriela, i think it was, where you had to run intensely for 30 minutes before the performance even began. all of that energy and tension is put into the body before the audience even comes in. but surely they can see it and feel it as soon as they enter, and when they watch…
and simone, you and bea both have trouble with putting up images, sorry…! i wrote this to bea already, hopefully it will help you, too: sorry super-geek me going in and editing your post images… it seems you had trouble the last few times… just to let you know, try not to make your images larger than 466px wide (that is the setting of this column we have here), which hopefully you can do in photoshop easily… when you upload the image, you can enter it into the editor then as option “full size” and mark option “link to – none”. if your images are not 466wide, though, you can still change the proportions of the image in the editor by clicking once on the image so that it has a little black box around it, then click on one of the corners and drag to resize. this is fine, just keep in mind not to let the photographs be too huge otherwise they’ll be too slow to load in people’s browsers!
Mon, the obidient was not refering to loyality of China. The juxtaposition of the two posture coming from the idea of being obidien and proud, was developed independantly from your last post. But I found it funny that we were thinking at the same time of the almost same thing (the proude part) and this is maybe a hint.
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