Response: bodies and objects is a riff on the proposal behind Cynthia Daignault’s exhibition, There is Nothing I Can Say That I Haven’t Thought Before. 

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RACKETS Lucas Zileri – Ping Pong with Two Rackets SCORE  Rubén Orio  – Aphasia by Mark Apelbaum

BOOK Esse Vanderbruggen & Vera Tussing – based on Bartenieff Movement Fundamentals by Peggy Hackney

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Response: bodies and objects is a series of solo and group interventions during which human beings explore the actions proposed by extrinsic things: a book, a ping-pong racket, a musical score, the body of the other. Movement here is not primarily an act of expression, but an act of translation. It is from the gap of indeterminacy implied by this (and any) act of translation that the specificity and expressivity of Response emerges. How does this act of translation reflect back on the object, refracting and renewing it? And what happens when the emerging translated form is abstracted and re-applied across different bodies? Response proposes listening to the object as a strategy for exploring the possibilities of the body and the specificities of the individual.