{"title": "Singularities", "subjects": ["Philosophy", "Performance art", "Movement (Philosophy)", "Mouvement (Philosophie)", "ART", "Performance", "Reference"], "key": "/works/OL21282385W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL2698185A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Andr\u00e9 Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of \u2018performance\u2019 in the twenty-first century: not just an aesthetic category, but a mode of political power. He demonstrates the enduring ability of performance to critique and subvert this power, examining this relationship through five \u2018singularities\u2019 in contemporary dance: thingness, animality, persistence, darkness, and solidity. Exploring the works of Mette Ingvartsen, Yvonne Rainer, Ralph Lemon, J\u00e9r\u00f4me Bel and others, Lepecki uses his concept of \u2018singularity\u2019\u2015the resistance of categorization and aesthetic identification\u2015to examine the function of dance and performance in political and artistic debate."}, "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2020-08-16T10:51:49.422708"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-12-04T11:33:16.723552"}}