DANC 280g Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg, Walker Art Center
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What we learned was that we were doing just what we were doing and never anything else. It had nothing to do with drama or mental images or emotional responses. It had to do with your learning to be exact where we were where we were there, doing what we were supposed to be doing . When you randomise the process to chance then you can"t predict what the outcome will be. How to bring meaning to dance if dance isn"t about anything. Doesn"t want to burden dance with meaning. Traditional, discipline - specific works shift toward new categories of event or happening. Exploration of de-skilled, pedestrian, task based action. Radical opening of what might be considered art. Jackson pollock - mid century boundary blurring example. Doing an action that results in an image. Black mountain college 1952 - first event. Spectators were free to watch different aspects. One of the most influential artists in the 20th century.
