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Abstract
Unruly gestures presents a hybrid performative intervention by means of video, text, and still images. With this experimental essay we aspire to break down various preconceptions about reading/writing gestures. Breaking away from a narrative that sees these gestures foremost as passive entities – as either embodiments of pure subjective intentionality, or as bodily movements shaped and controlled by media technologies (enabling specific sensory engagements with texts) – we aim to reappraise them. Indeed, in this essay we identify numerous dominant narratives that relate to gestural agency, to the media-specificity of gestures, and to their (linear) historicity, naturalness and humanism. This essay disrupts these preconceptions, and by doing so, it unfolds an alternative genealogy of ‘unruly gestures.’ These are gestures that challenge gestural conditioning through particular media technologies, cultural power structures, hegemonic discourses, and the biopolitical self. We focus on reading/writing gestures that have disrupted gestural hegemonies and material-discursive forms of gestural control through time and across media. Informed by Tristan Tzara’s cut-up techniques, where through the gesture of cutting the Dadaists subverted established traditions of authorship, intentionality, and linearity, this essay has been cut-up into seven semi-autonomous cine-paragraphs (accessible in video and print). Each of these cine-paragraphs confronts specific gestural preconceptions while simultaneously showcasing various unruly gestures.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 190-208 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 12 Apr 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Culture Unbound is an Open Access journal (CC BY-NC)Copyright for all manuscripts rests with the author(s).
Keywords
- reading/writing gestures
- gestural agency
- corporate gesture control
- textual media
- cutting
- iteration
- media archaeology
- gestures
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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Invited lecture, 'Polish Futurist Writing and Cinematic Imagination'
Kamila Kuc (Speaker)
4 May 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Found Footage Film as a Form of Creative Archiving
Kamila Kuc (Speaker)
15 May 2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Theory of Practice/Practice of Theory: Thinking Through Making Symposium
Kamila Kuc (Speaker)
15 Mar 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
Research output
- 1 Digital or Visual Media
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Unruly Gestures - performative essay
Kuc, K., 2017Research output: Practice-Based and Non-textual Research › Digital or Visual Media
Profiles
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Janneke Adema
- Research Centre in Postdigital Cultures - Associate Professor (Research)
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