@article{ART002119946},
author={Michelle Lim},
title={Traces of a Corporeal Archive: Choy Ka Fai + The SoftMachine Project},
journal={Journal of History of Modern Art},
issn={1598-7728},
year={2016},
number={39},
pages={215-229},
doi={10.17057/kahoma.2016..39.009}
TY - JOUR
AU - Michelle Lim
TI - Traces of a Corporeal Archive: Choy Ka Fai + The SoftMachine Project
JO - Journal of History of Modern Art
PY - 2016
VL - null
IS - 39
PB - 현대미술사학회
SP - 215
EP - 229
SN - 1598-7728
AB - Since 2012, the Berlin-based Singaporean artist Choy Ka Fai has been working on the SoftMachine project, a work that comprises a growing archive of interviews with more than 80 contemporary dance choreographers from Asia and several performance works made in collaboration with his subjects. The SoftMachine project began with a simple questioning of the oft-held European notion of a monolithic “sia”and has since developed into a critical and transcultural mapping of intersections between traditional and contemporary dance histories from Asia. In this paper, I will examine Choy’s collaborations with dancer-choreographers Surjit Nongmeikapam (India) and Rianto(Indonesia), arguing that the folding of traditional/local dance movements into new performance works has created an alternate archive of dance and performance with the body as repository, one that is simultaneously historicizing while contemporanizing. I briefly discuss the significance of Choy’s project in the aftermath of the banning of state funding for performance art in Singapore from 1994 to 2004.
KW - Performance;Archive;Contemporary Dance;Body;Asia
DO - 10.17057/kahoma.2016..39.009
ER -
Michelle Lim. (2016). Traces of a Corporeal Archive: Choy Ka Fai + The SoftMachine Project. Journal of History of Modern Art, 39, 215-229.
Michelle Lim. 2016, "Traces of a Corporeal Archive: Choy Ka Fai + The SoftMachine Project", Journal of History of Modern Art, no.39, pp.215-229. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2016..39.009
Michelle Lim "Traces of a Corporeal Archive: Choy Ka Fai + The SoftMachine Project" Journal of History of Modern Art 39 pp.215-229 (2016) : 215.
Michelle Lim. Traces of a Corporeal Archive: Choy Ka Fai + The SoftMachine Project. 2016; 39 : 215-229. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2016..39.009
Michelle Lim. "Traces of a Corporeal Archive: Choy Ka Fai + The SoftMachine Project" Journal of History of Modern Art no.39(2016) : 215-229.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2016..39.009
Michelle Lim. Traces of a Corporeal Archive: Choy Ka Fai + The SoftMachine Project. Journal of History of Modern Art, 39, 215-229. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2016..39.009
Michelle Lim. Traces of a Corporeal Archive: Choy Ka Fai + The SoftMachine Project. Journal of History of Modern Art. 2016; 39 215-229. doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2016..39.009
Michelle Lim. Traces of a Corporeal Archive: Choy Ka Fai + The SoftMachine Project. 2016; 39 : 215-229. Available from: doi:10.17057/kahoma.2016..39.009
Michelle Lim. "Traces of a Corporeal Archive: Choy Ka Fai + The SoftMachine Project" Journal of History of Modern Art no.39(2016) : 215-229.doi: 10.17057/kahoma.2016..39.009
