Media theorists love Bertolt Brecht’s famous 1932 essay, “The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication.” It’s a prescient call for participatory technology: “…radio is one-sided when it should be two-. It is purely an apparatus for distribution, for mere sharing out. So here is a positive suggestion: change this apparatus over from distribution to communication. … Continue reading »
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Marie Chouinard's bODY_rEMIX/ gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS
Montreal’s Compagnie Marie Chouinard‘s 2005 work, bODY_rEMIX/ gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS employs ten dancers who “execute variations on the exercise of freedom. Often, the dancers appear on points: on one, two, and even four at a time. In a spectroscopy of the gesture, we also see them using different devices ““ crutches, rope, prostheses, horizontal bars, and harnesses … Continue reading »
