thesis:

the world is already here. {all the time, with all of its complexity}

art / communication

is just making pointers to bring attention

to certain aspects of it.

heard from Steve Paxton in his lecture at Dance Academy

Arnhem, Netherlands, 2002

ais-thesis

ancient Greek:„taking for true“

→ perception(today: „aesthetic / esthetic“)

body senses → communicationseeing, (visual)smell, taste, (chemical)hearing, touch, movement, ... (senses that we have not named yet)

all related & anatomically unstable !!

groping . . .

… and reaching

recognition -

feedback

result of communication ...

contact

eXchange

dialogue

sender

/ expedient

receiver

/ recipient

filling up the created structure with more content

semiotic analysis model

1- syntactic = what is the form?for example:

a plate of 8 corners, made of metal,white edge, plane painted red inside,

has words STOP in white in the middle

2- semantic = what is the meaning?for the example above: „please stop here!“

3- sigmatic = relation meaning – form?• icon imitation of... / resemblancefor example: image of house, daily gesture>> DEGREE OF ICONICITY (resemblance)

• symbol means something else, (needs shared code / language)for example: 한글 , red rose for „love“

• index pointer / degree of sth.

for example: city-map → STOP SIGN ☺ 4- pragmatic = relation to receiver?

• signalfrom request to order → STOP SIGN ...

• symptomcommunicate a state of existence

→ social context , (intended) result(s)

for dance:

1- syntactic = what is the form?(e.g. Laban Movement Analysis:

body, effort, time, space)movements, gestures, weight-shifts, touch,

→ phrases, groupings, stagecostume-design etc.who is performing? men, women? etc.

2- semantic = what is the meaning?..... ☺

3- sigmatic = relation meaning – form?• icon imitation of... / resemblance

daily gesture, exaggerated moves, „abstract“>> DEGREE OF ICONICITY (resemblance)

• symbol means something else, (needs shared code / language)sign language, „OK“ (thumbs up)

vocabulary of Asian dance theater styles ...

• index pointer / degree of sth.for example: how high is the water-level?

4- pragmatic = relation to receiver?• signal

from request to order → STOP SIGN (...)

• symptomcommunicate a state of existence (aahhh....)

Physical states…..

also for performance:

Six ViewpointsMary Overlie originator → Anne Bogaert / SiTi Company

SpaceShapeTimeEmotion (→ symptom function in Semiotics!)MovementLogic / Narrative (→ semantics...!)

→ SySTEM(- iN)

„languages of theatre“→ postmodern analysis→ NO set forms,as still is in traditional archaic theaterexamine them all separately

Why a postmodern approach...?

道可道非常道

"The Way that can be described is the wrong ordinary Way.“

名可名非常名

"The Name that can be named is the wrong ordinary Name."

老子 / Laŏ-Tzĭmotto from the

dào dé jīng 道德經 / 도덕경(ca. 400 before Chr.)

Sources:

•Hans Zender, Happy new Ears, 1990

•Directives for School teachers of Fine Arts, Germany, 1992

•Mary Overlie, Postmodern Mechanics *unpublished as yet

•Mary Overlie, lecture demonstration, Dansacademie Arnhem, netherlands, 2002 (with 양승회 , Tebby Ramasike, T. Körtvélyessy)

•“I will eat your shadow!” catalogue for exhibition of Far Eastern Theatre, Düsseldorf, Germany

•Steve Paxton, Lecture Dansacademie Arnhem, 2001

•Wikipedia (English & German…)