@article{ART003280752},
author={KO WOON KIM},
title={An Intermedial Study of the Aerial Image in Carolyn Carlson’s Pneuma - Focused on Bachelard’s Dynamic Imagination -},
journal={The Korean Journal of Dance Studies},
issn={1226-900X},
year={2025},
volume={102},
number={5},
pages={35-52}
TY - JOUR
AU - KO WOON KIM
TI - An Intermedial Study of the Aerial Image in Carolyn Carlson’s Pneuma - Focused on Bachelard’s Dynamic Imagination -
JO - The Korean Journal of Dance Studies
PY - 2025
VL - 102
IS - 5
PB - The Korean Society for Dance Studies
SP - 35
EP - 52
SN - 1226-900X
AB - This study aims to analyze the intermedial mechanism through which Carolyn Carlson’s Pneuma (2014) reconfigures Gaston Bachelard’s dynamic imagination by transforming the aerial image developed in Air and Dreams(1943) into embodied and kinetic forms. Rather than tracing symbolic correspondences, the research focuses on the generative process in which poetic images migrate from textual reverie to choreographic expression within Carlson’s conception of “poésie visuelle”. The analysis first clarifies how Bachelard’s notions of dynamic imagination and verticality provide an operative framework for Carlson’s movement-based rearticulation of the aerial image. It then investigates the seven principal scenes of Pneuma as stanza-like poetic segments, demonstrating how contrasts— lightness and gravity, ascent and descent, white and black—activate a continuous unfolding of imaginative energy. Ultimately, the study argues that Pneuma constitutes an intermedial creation in which the aerial image acquires bodily life, revealing a distinctive mode of text-to-movement transformation.
KW - Carolyn Carlson;Poésie visuelle;Intermediality;Gaston Bachelard;Aerial Image
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KO WOON KIM. (2025). An Intermedial Study of the Aerial Image in Carolyn Carlson’s Pneuma - Focused on Bachelard’s Dynamic Imagination -. The Korean Journal of Dance Studies, 102(5), 35-52.
KO WOON KIM. 2025, "An Intermedial Study of the Aerial Image in Carolyn Carlson’s Pneuma - Focused on Bachelard’s Dynamic Imagination -", The Korean Journal of Dance Studies, vol.102, no.5 pp.35-52.
KO WOON KIM "An Intermedial Study of the Aerial Image in Carolyn Carlson’s Pneuma - Focused on Bachelard’s Dynamic Imagination -" The Korean Journal of Dance Studies 102.5 pp.35-52 (2025) : 35.
KO WOON KIM. An Intermedial Study of the Aerial Image in Carolyn Carlson’s Pneuma - Focused on Bachelard’s Dynamic Imagination -. 2025; 102(5), 35-52.
KO WOON KIM. "An Intermedial Study of the Aerial Image in Carolyn Carlson’s Pneuma - Focused on Bachelard’s Dynamic Imagination -" The Korean Journal of Dance Studies 102, no.5 (2025) : 35-52.
KO WOON KIM. An Intermedial Study of the Aerial Image in Carolyn Carlson’s Pneuma - Focused on Bachelard’s Dynamic Imagination -. The Korean Journal of Dance Studies, 102(5), 35-52.
KO WOON KIM. An Intermedial Study of the Aerial Image in Carolyn Carlson’s Pneuma - Focused on Bachelard’s Dynamic Imagination -. The Korean Journal of Dance Studies. 2025; 102(5) 35-52.
KO WOON KIM. An Intermedial Study of the Aerial Image in Carolyn Carlson’s Pneuma - Focused on Bachelard’s Dynamic Imagination -. 2025; 102(5), 35-52.
KO WOON KIM. "An Intermedial Study of the Aerial Image in Carolyn Carlson’s Pneuma - Focused on Bachelard’s Dynamic Imagination -" The Korean Journal of Dance Studies 102, no.5 (2025) : 35-52.
