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Pyromaniacal Wave Captain
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 Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 12:43 pm
Word REFUSES to save... so...
• Any attempt to unify the arts is positive
• It is possible to achieve a correspondence across the arts
Idea belongs to modern era, or modernism. Believes well determined whole – sum is greater than the parts.
We are no longer in the modern era. Not acknowledge the possibility of unity or claim that it is a positive way of looking at the world. Post-modern thinkers look back at modern with critical eye. Not possible to have unity of arts.
- Little room to acknowledge difference (breaking what is seen as the norm), except in derogatory terms.
- Questions why artistic works are or are not canonical
- No longer an avant-garde
- History no longer linear, pushed forward by avant-garde – moving forward by branching out in all directions – multiple voices at one time (think of play where people are talking at the same time.)
World War II
American Abstract Expressionist Painting and Japanese Butoh Dance
– Same set of social/cultural circumstances. Responses to the same event
– Mount a critique of two cultures responses to a single event
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Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 12:53 pm
Expressionist Painting
- Non-representational, but expressive
- Jackson Polluck - working randomly but with control
-Very grandly gestural - when applying paint to surface - painting on floor rather than on the wall or facing painting as is usually
- Emotional, random-like
- Reflects in post-war period
Butoh Dance - (Bu - Dance, To = Step/stomp, ??? "The Dance of Darkness")
- Kazuo Ohno and Tatisumi Hijikata
- Become the tree if you act as a tree
- Aftermath of WWII - the country bomb was dropped on - response to physical and emotional suffering, to the power of the USA
- Politcally engaged - mounting critiques against the status quo - Jap art and culture.
- Dance of identity
- Very melancholy, slow aesthetic
-Darkness, unkown part of bodies. Pushed beyond limits - ancient Japanese dance - forbidden colours, 'Revolt of the Flesh' - western influence mocked, uncontrolled and savage performance.
- Images into pure movement
- Later abandoned for more simple expression - later became standard butoh vocabulary
Similarities through response to same event - Hiroshima bomb drop.
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Pyromaniacal Wave Captain
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Pyromaniacal Wave Captain
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Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 1:24 pm
How is it different?
- More about the individual in American, in Japanese it is based on the collective
- Technique is less important in American Expressionist painting - means to an end, Butoh needs trained dancer, must be in complete control of your body - central to Butoh
- Expressionist painting gestures wide and free, Butoh is slow and restrained, almost small movements
- Pollock - very optimist, Butoh was very meloncholy, sorrow and pain, etc.
- No real political statement in the work by Polluck, must be interpretted, Butoh is VERY political. Message is political message is inside the work.
- Polluck rewarding victorious country, optimism, Butoh self-punishment, upset for losing the war
- Freedom or none? in each
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