Issue 36: Dance
NANA BILUŠ ABAFFY on her own work POST REALITY VISION
POST REALITY VISION
I want to know what my body is looking for when it dances. I’m interested in the visionary body, and the body as a vision. Of all the plethora of images and artefacts that we have created and consumed – to place in front of all of this the body – it’s so bare, it’s confusing. The confrontation of the body vs all the un-reality we’ve built – it is a disruptive reminder that the body is still here.
Why is it that we need the body now, in this era of post truth? It is as though its appearance here now is some kind of proof. The presentation of the body as evidence that reality still exists. The body is a totality. A multiplicity in unity. We think the body knows how the future will unfold. And is able to communicate more precisely than language. We work from the premise that the body is an entire hypercomplex universe, and that its thoughts are capable of envisioning massive alterities. We are looking for a vision.
Nana Biluš Abaffy is an artist with a background in philosophy and a foreground in experimental performance and dance. Nana takes a maximalist approach to artistic endeavour and works through dance, text, play, moving image and social intervention. Biluš Abaffy is one of the eight commissioned Keir Choreographic Award choreographers for 2018.
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Runway Journal is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Runway Journal receives project support from the NSW Government through Create NSW.
Runway Journal acknowledges the custodians of the nations our digital platform reaches. We extend this acknowledgement to all First Nations artists, writers and audiences.
Runway Journal is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Runway Journal receives project support from the NSW Government through Create NSW.