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RAW THINKING: Jackson Pollock and The Death Dance of the Avant-Garde

by Dr. Gerry Coulter (Bishop’s University, Canada)

 

Pollock’s work was considerable both in terms of its quantity and its effect. It spoke to the disquieting time in which it was created and it echoes on into the present. In Pollock’s painting objectivity succumbs to the subjective gaze, meaning at the meta-level breaks down and truth can be considered only along the local horizon of the maker of the image or the reader of the image.

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published 5 December 2011

EDITORIAL: signs of life

by jeffrey gormly

 

dear friends and colleagues
it just recently came to my attention that emails for editor@choreograph.net have not been reaching their destination. this is due to the changeover from my last working address at daghdha dance company in early summer of this year.

if you have submitted work or made contact in that time and had no response, please accept my apologies and please do send again. i will endeavour to acknowledge receipt of all mail within a week.

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published 5 December 2011

 

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CHOREOGRAPHIC CAPTURES – choreooo.org

The CHOREOGRAPHIC CAPTURES art project and short-film competition was initiated under the motto “ART FOR THOSE WHO DIDN’T ASK FOR IT!” by JOINT ADVENTURES with support from the German Federal Cultural Foundation in 2008. The goal is as simple as it is ambitious: to use unconventional means to increase people’s awareness of the art forms of film, dance and choreography.

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published 20 February 2011