Standing Still Moving: Arts of Gesture in Lateral Time
by Rebecca Schneider, Professor of Modern Culture and Media
Standing Still Moving: Arts of Gesture in Lateral Time offers a theory of gesture, antiphony and interval in the arts. As time-based arts are essentially arts of the interval, the book explores betweenness, besideness, and amongness in cross-temporal works that reverberate antiphonally. Approaching artworks as gestures in differing temporal registers (geologic time, human time, digital time), the book draws on Black feminist thought, critical theory, and decolonial methodologies. The digital design promotes nonlinear thought and asks: When cross-temporal artistic gestures involve more-than-human participants, what kind of call and response is possible? Standing Still Moving can be accessed as Moving Still Standing, and chapters are conceived as fugal constellations in a playfield designed for myriad routes of access while building a cohesive argument.
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Conceiving of this book project as digital literally opened portals of possibility for thought in ways I could not have foreseen before beginning on this journey. New connections have arisen among the artworks I am writing about, but also among the philosophies, critical theories, and disciplinary perspectives I am engaging in debate.
Supported by the Mellon Foundation
