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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"body memory"”.
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Black Body Memory: A Philosophy of the Talk
<p>This project offers the term Black body memory to point toward the threatened existential disposition of Black people in society today. Moreover, Black body memory points to the narrative paradigm of a shared experience. While popular conceptions theorize race as a social construction, the lived …
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Performing nostalgia: body, memory, and the aesthetics of past-home
… the shifting, nostalgia’s associations with the body and with the concept of home has diminished. This study of African American nostalgia for Africa uses genealogical inquiry, personal and autoethnographic narrative, and performance theories and practices to reinvigorate the relations between …
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Stay in Touch
… from April 3rd to April 7th 2017. In this body of work, I use processes of weaving, knitting, crochet, embroidery and photography to touch the past and to feel reciprocally touched by it. I explore the ability of touch to imaginatively transport a person to another time or place. By …
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Two Life Histories of Native American Women Becoming Literate
… entropy, abstracting themes, and body memory. Both Vonda and Debbie utilized acquisition of a tribal identity, an essence of community, and an initiating of a conscious or unconscious application of these pathways as cultural filters to become literate. Therefore, both Native …
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A visual and theoretical interpretation of sculpted paper as metaphor for the fragility and vulnerability of the human being
… with the specific themes of metaphor, the body, memory and remembrance, social commentary, or whose work utilised paper, text, and light as creative materials), and the practical and technical procedures employed in works of art. The literature indicated that although there were certain …
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The reinvention of tradition: Transformation of Chinese water sleeve dance and Tai Ji in contemporary performer training and performance making
… between different cultural backgrounds and body languages, and how conservatoire training can enable the inheritance of tradition through body memory. Tai Ji was applied to movement training and to the making and performance of a new contemporary work, Hunger. The discussion of Tai Ji and …