The sloppy economy of aesthetic perception, and other stories

In this MELT Reading Group, Neil Greenberg will offer selections from a few readings that have influenced and/or helped him understand his own performance-making: about the “sloppy economy” of aesthetic perception (“Form and meaning in art” by Per Aage Brandt); about different subjective positionings in relation to viewers (“The Audience: Subjectivity, Community and the Ethics of Listening,” by Alice Rayner); and in relation to queer aesthetics (“The Queer Art of Failure” by Jack Halberstam, “Cruising Utopia” by José Esteban Muñoz). It sounds like a lot – but he promises to keep the selections focused!

Neil Greenberg: I’m a choreographer, dancer and educator, perhaps best known for my Not-About-AIDS-Dance (1994), which employs projected text as a layering strategy to provide doors into spaces for meaning(fulness) in the dance, while raising questions about the nature of meaning-making.

Accessibility Notes

• This event includes auditive guidance.
• This event includes text/images/video shared on a large screen tv.
• This event includes digital readings.

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