photos by Styrous®
butohPhoto
is the name of a recent workshop:
a way of taking a photo utilizing peripheral perception combined
with Butoh practice -- snapping
the picture, sending it to a pod-cast that’s projected into The Gray Loft
Gallery.
The photos
in this article are of the workshop. The end-product, with it's
faults in mind, will be in video form in the next article I post on here.
Thanks for
stopping by.
The
following are a few words from previous workshops and classes
originating in a 1997 CCA winter-break workshop called ButohDrawing,
where I was forced to find a way for the class participants to serve as
Live Models for what was intended as an academically credited Life
Drawing class.
“ButohDrawing is a recombinant culture, a nomadic umbrella whose spokes point to many disciplines: art, architecture, design, movement, performance, philosophy, psychology, and historicism. It interfaces the Japanese discipline of Butoh* movement with investigations of contemporary drawing, writing and postmodern thought.
The conceptual locus of ButohDrawing can be traced from the picture plane, through the mirror, to the Butoh-rhizome; a filigree of nerves beneath the skin: Brunelleschi. Leonardo, Cezanne, Lacan, Hijikata and Deleuze/Guattari. We suspend and elevate this filigree --- we move it attentively, creating drawings and digital documents in peripheral vision that shift from "doxa" into paradox. Dynamic tension is at the heart of this program”.
Tom White © 2003
* Butoh is a Japanese dance form, circa 1959.
projection by Betty Jo Costanzo
