Critical Correspondence
What Sustains You Justine Lynch?
What Sustains You? is a new video project that asks dance artists about money and sustainability. The idea sprung from several events, discussions and proposals addressing in one way or another a necessity to rethink the presenting and creating models. Some of these projects were Charlotte Gibbons’ 4U, Daria Faïn/Prosodic Body’s think tank on the creation of a Commons (both an artistic performance and a civil/justice-building project) and Justine Lynch’s Somatic Alchemy classes. These artists, it seemed to us, challenged traditional exchange contracts of art giving and receiving and blurred definitions of art, production, collaboration, healing, authorship, and more.
Justine Lynch in conversation with Beth Gill
Middle of Man Download this interview as PDF Thumbnail photo by Sarah H. Paulson Beth: I’m going to read these last 2 sentences, just as a place to start. You wrote: “Without trying to recreate old images of ritualistic movement, my aim is rather to use the powerful structure of ancient alchemical paradigms to free […]
