Reimaging Human Bodies and Death with Vibrant (Dark) Matters and Puppetry

IF 0.1 3区艺术学 0 DANCE

DANCE CHRONICLE Pub Date : 2021-05-04 DOI:10.1080/01472526.2021.1927431

M. Mandradjieff

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Abstract

Abstract This article analyzes the effects of the collaboration between dance and puppetry within Crystal Pite’s Dark Matters (2009) and claims Pite’s work challenges nonhuman-human and object-subject binaries. Functioning within a new materialist philosophical framework, specifically in conversation with theorist Jane Bennett’s concept of vital materialism, this study argues that Dark Matters exposes the human body as an assemblage of vibrant multiple objects, and by positioning both the puppet and human corpse as agential matter, poses a radical rethinking of “liveliness” and “death.” Ultimately, this analysis reveals dance’s unique ability to evoke important posthuman reflection regarding physical matter, which always already includes the human body.

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用充满活力的（黑暗）物质和木偶戏重塑人体和死亡

摘要本文分析了Crystal Pite的《暗物质》（2009）中舞蹈和木偶戏之间的合作所产生的影响，并声称Pite的作品挑战了非人-人-物-主体的二元对立。本研究在一个新的唯物主义哲学框架内运作，特别是在与理论家简·贝内特的生命唯物主义概念的对话中，认为暗物质将人体暴露为一个充满活力的多个物体的集合，并通过将木偶和人体尸体定位为代理物质，对“生命”和“死亡”进行了彻底的反思。“最终，这一分析揭示了舞蹈的独特能力，它能够唤起人们对物质的重要反思，而物质总是包括人体。

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