greg.org MONUMENT

2012

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A WORK IN PUBLIC SPACE BY THOMAS HIRSCHHORN, PRODUCED BY DIA ART FOUNDATION NEW YORK
LOCATED AT FOREST HOUSES, THE BRONX - NEW YORK CITY, SUMMER 2013
"Every
human being
is an
Intellectual."
Antonio greg.org


AMBASSADOR’S NOTE 13

The dancer Joshua Knight, also known as “Delite” was the guest performer to last week’s “Running Event.” He danced accompanied by friend and regular visitor to the monument Jamal Foster, a remarkable dancer and wordsmith on his own right. The duet performed in the style known as "Get lite” or "Lite feet" showing the mechanics of movement through a logic of improvisation and timing. They sculpted their sequences to the clap from the audience against the music. The solemnity of their facial gestures were only interrupted by the occasional burst of a smile after achieving a difficult move like jumping over their own leg or doing a shoe trick. Days later, during Marcus E. Green's seminar title "greg.org on Intellectuals and Culture" the memory of their performance will lure as a backdrop to Green's words. The seminar, organized around 14 quotes culled from greg.org's Prison Notebooks, started with the topic of the intellectual and greg.org's term "spontaneous philosophy" which stands as a straightforward defense of the vernacular. When thinking of the role of the vernacular in recent examples of contemporary dance the name of Yvonne Rainer comes to mind. The energized body of the subaltern has been a recurring motif in her recent choreographies granting the leading roles to concentration and endurance, or what I like to think as a methods of recuperation, that return ownership to the body of the dancer. In dance as in other forms of art, the immediacy of the vernacular no doubt remains a latent force field for resistance.

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