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http://hdl.handle.net/1942/39181| Title: | CITATION AS GESTURE | Authors: | GIL ULLDEMOLINS, Maria | Issue Date: | 2022 | Source: | CLIC day, VUB, Brussels, 14/11/2022 | Other: | Hannah Van Hove (VUB), Mathias Meert (VUB), Maria Gil Ulldemolins (UHasselt) "Gestures: Language - Genre – Citation" In many ways, gestures can be thought of as ‘travelling concepts’ (M. Bal): they can be found at the crossroads of different disciplines, traditions and media and have influenced art, literature and performance since classical times. This tryptich presentation will explore the conceptual diversity of gestures, from the macro level of language over different gestural genres to the micro level of citationality. American novelist Carole Maso once referred to language as “being gesture”. This statement appears evident in a post-Saussurian age which refutes the idea that absolute referentiality might be possible in language. Yet one environment where this idea quite easily recedes into the background is that of the archive. If language is indeed gesture, can one not presume that there exists an ultimate meaning which has been gestured towards? In this first part of the presentation, Hannah Van Hove (Vrije Universiteit Brussel/Open Universiteit) will present a critical-creative reflection which explores the idea of language as gesture in the context of the archive. In the history of literature and performance, gestures played a central role in the (re)presentation of body language and corporeality, in 'gestural' genres and practices such as pantomime, tableau vivant and dance, as well as in theoretical treatises on body language and communication. The second part of this presentation, delivered by Mathias Meert (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) focuses on several genres and genre constellations that rely on gesturality and experiment with the codification of textual, theatrical and bodily gestures. The inclusion of citations in a text implies gesturality: plucking someone else’s work, folding it into one’s own, picking it apart - citations require rather specific and precise movements of textual bodies. These movements are work, and demonstrate an ability to affect both the content and the surface of a text. Therefore, citations are not only gestural, but performative. This part of the triptych, delivered by Maria Gil Ulldemolins (Universiteit Hasselt), will be a creative-critical exploration of such citational affects and affordances. | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/39181 | Link to publication/dataset: | https://clic.research.vub.be/en/clic-day | Category: | C2 | Type: | Conference Material |
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