Intimate Encounters: Screendance and Surveillance

Authors

  • John White University of Edinburgh Brown University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18061/ijsd.v8i0.5364

Keywords:

screendance, surveillance, kinesthetic empathy, voyeurism

Abstract

This article explores some ways in which screendance might invite a greater or deeper degree of kinesthetic empathy than is traditionally possible with live performance. In particular, the use of the close-up and the creation of editing rhythms are two strategies that extend screendance viewers' kinesthetic empathy into a more intimate relationship with the dance(rs). Furthermore, this article analyzes Katrina McPherson's screendance The Truth as a case study in which this intimate viewing relationship is characterized by a kind of voyeurism shared with the act of viewing surveillance. I draw on some surveillance theory and artist Jill Magid's piece Evidence Locker in order to explore the surveillance aspects of The Truth.

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Published

2017-06-07

How to Cite

White, J. (2017). Intimate Encounters: Screendance and Surveillance. The International Journal of Screendance, 8. https://doi.org/10.18061/ijsd.v8i0.5364

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