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On _Reverberations_

Lauren Bakst was the R&D Season Fellow for CHOREOGRAPHY. In a series of three texts published on Six Degrees, Bakst shares several lines of inquiry she pursued while researching the R&D Season’s thematic during her residency, addressing how considerations of subjectivity, affect, memory, and history can be taken up through the skilled dancer’s body and choreographic forms within exhibitionary s...

(Temporary) Collection of Ideas around CHOREOGRAPHY: Eve Meltzer

In the sixth of seven successive perspectives from artists, choreographers, curators, dancers, and scholars on the term “choreography,” here Eve Meltzer, an art historian and scholar of various philosophical and theoretical discourses, contributes her thoughts on the topic to the Six Degrees series “ Collection of Ideas around CHOREOGRAPHY.” As part of a daylong symposium in February initiated ...

(Temporary) Collection of Ideas around CHOREOGRAPHY: Mariana Valencia

Artist and dancer Mariana Valencia shares her perspective on the term “choreography” in the fourth of seven successive contributions from artists, choreographers, curators, dancers, and scholars for the Six Degrees series “ Collection of Ideas around CHOREOGRAPHY.” As part of a daylong symposium in February initiated by the R&D Seminar participants, Valencia presented a short performance wherei...

(Temporary) Collection of Ideas around CHOREOGRAPHY: Cori Kresge

Dancer Cori Kresge shares her perspective on the term “choreography” in the fifth of seven successive contributions from artists, choreographers, curators, dancers, and scholars for the Six Degrees series “ Collection of Ideas around CHOREOGRAPHY.” As part of a daylong symposium in February initiated by the R&D Seminar participants, Kresge presented a short talk and exercise wherein she explore...

(Temporary) Collection of Ideas around CHOREOGRAPHY

Six Degrees editor and New Museum Seminars co-organizer Taraneh Fazeli introduces the series “ Collection of Ideas around CHOREOGRAPHY” in relation to the forms of impassioned study and asynchronous temporalities being developed within the Education Department’s R&D framework and New Museum Seminars. Also suggesting that the R&D thematics function as keywords , Fazeli introduces a series of sev...

(Temporary) Collection of Ideas around CHOREOGRAPHY: Shayna Keller

Dancer and choreographer Shayna Keller shares her perspective on the term “choreography” in the third of seven successive contributions from artists, choreographers, curators, dancers, and scholars for the Six Degrees series “ Collection of Ideas around CHOREOGRAPHY.” As part of a daylong symposium in February initiated by the R&D Seminar participants, Keller presented a short talk wherein she ...

(Temporary) Collection of Ideas around CHOREOGRAPHY: Heather Love

Gender studies scholar Heather Love shares her perspective on the term “choreography” in the second of seven successive contributions from artists, choreographers, curators, dancers, and scholars for the Six Degrees series “ Collection of Ideas around CHOREOGRAPHY.” As part of a daylong symposium in February initiated by the R&D Seminar participants, Love presented a short talk wherein she expl...

(Temporary) Collection of Ideas around CHOREOGRAPHY: Neil Greenberg

In the final of seven successive perspectives from artists, choreographers, curators, dancers, and scholars on the term “choreography,” here dancer and choreographer Neil Greenberg contributes his thoughts on the topic to the Six Degrees series “ Collection of Ideas around CHOREOGRAPHY.” Since Greenberg could not present during a daylong symposium in February initiated by the R&D Seminar’s part...

Indexing Liveness: The (In)Animacy of Performance

Lauren Bakst was the New Museum’s R&D Season Fellow for the Fall 2014 Season devoted to the topic of CHOREOGRAPHY. In a series of three texts published on Six Degrees, Bakst shares several lines of inquiry she pursued while researching the R&D Season’s thematic during her residency, addressing how considerations of subjectivity, affect, memory, and history can be taken up through the skilled da...

In the Mirror of the Other

Continuing the Six Degrees series “Translation is Impossible. Let’s do it!” we present translator and scholar Samuel Wilder’s English language version of “Fi mir’at al-akhar” [In the Mirror of the Other] by Moroccan philosopher Abdessalam Benabdelali. The second of two commissioned translations of this text—the first being Christian Hawkey’s—Wilder’s iteration hews closely to the philosopher’s ...

Para-sites like us: What is this para-sitic tendency?

“Para-sites like us” is an ongoing research project initiated by Janna Graham, the inaugural Six Degrees resident. Graham’s series of texts examines the para-sitic condition as a potential coordinated political struggle, one that might make “good on culture’s claim to social transformation” by working para , within, and as other to institutions.

Below, the first essay in this series, “What is t...

In the Mirror of the Other

In Part 2 of the series “Translation is Impossible. Let’s do it!” we present the first of two commissioned translations into English of Moroccan philosopher Abdessalam Benabdelali’s text “Fi mir’at al-akhar” [In the Mirror of the Other] from his book, Fi al-Tarjama / De la traduction [Of Translation]. This first iteration is a creative writing through Benabdelali’s Arabic text by the American t...

Towards a Modern Greek Lexicon of Untranslatables

For our latest post in the series “Translation is Impossible. Let’s do it!,” philologist and historian of the modern reception of classics, Alexandra Lianeri shares her preface to the forthcoming Greek-language version of Vocabulaire européen des philosophies: Dictionnaire des intraduisibles, first published in French in 2004 and translated into English as the Dictionary of the Untranslatables:...

VOICE: The Paradox of Non-Participation

In the following VOICE contribution, “The Paradox of Non-Participation,” art historian and curator Lauren van Haaften-Schick examines the long history of artists’ boycotts and strikes seen as speech acts.

Art historian and curator Lauren van Haaften-Schick’s project Non-Participation is a collection of letters from artists, curators, writers, and others that were written to decline cultural oppo...

_Six Degrees_ Residency: Para-sites like us

“Para-sites like us” is an ongoing research project initiated by Janna Graham, the inaugural Six Degrees resident. Graham’s series of texts examines the para-sitical condition as a potential coordinated political struggle, one that might make “good on culture’s claim to social transformation” by working para , within, and as other to institutions.

PARA-SITES LIKE US

In many mainstream cultural in...

Six Degrees Residency: Introducing Janna Graham

Six Degrees recently initiated a new residency in which the publication’s editors invite a cultural practitioner—artist, curator, critic, historian, writer, poet, educator, etc.—to develop a research project that is informed by critical epistemologies and materializes transformative forms of social knowledge. In consultation with Six Degrees editors, residents identify and tackle a concern they...

Lessons on the Paradox of Translation

As part of our ongoing series “Translation is Impossible. Let’s Do It!” Education intern Chaeeun Lee contributes an essay framing a lesson on translation done with New Museum Teen Apprentice Program participants in the “Temporary Center for Translation.” Followed by a short interview with G:Class Educator Sasha Wortzel, “Lessons on the Paradox of Translation” aggregates materials related to the...

Redacted Mind

Writer Joshua Craze contributes to our ongoing series “Translation is Impossible. Let’s do it!” with an adapted excerpt from his forthcoming novel, Redacted Mind. Introduced by Omar Berrada, Co-director of Dar Al-Ma’mûn and co-organizer of “Temporary Center for Translation.”

I first met Joshua Craze on paper. I was marveling at the application he submitted for a writing residency at Dar al-Ma’mû...

Introducing the series: “Translation is Impossible. Let’s do it!”

“Translation is impossible. Let’s do it!” ¹ While at first glance this call to action might seem ironic, with knowledge of cultural critic and translator Boris Buden’s work one understands he is quite earnestly and defiantly putting forth the essential paradox that is taken by many in translation studies as a given: Total equivalences are impossible, but translations can and must take place “de...

SHOP TALK: Archiving Performance: Research through Dance with Jennifer Monson

Since 2000, dancer and choreographer Jennifer Monson has produced a number of projects that have utilized dance to investigate cultural understandings of nature. Monson’s “Live Dancing Archive” , which was included as part of “Performance Archiving Performance” at the New Museum last fall, proposes that dance is an embodied, research-generated practice, and that dance systems themselves are arc...