{"id":231,"date":"2014-08-18T11:04:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T11:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGProgrammes\/?page_id=231"},"modified":"2014-08-27T17:38:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T17:38:42","slug":"talk-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGProgrammes\/?page_id=231","title":{"rendered":"The promise of more&#8230;body, dance and the screen image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portland Green<br \/>\nAs part of Transaction (24-31 May, 2008), Munich<br \/>\n27 May, 5pm, Ampere<\/p>\n<p>Taking its departure point from two quotes, one by Adam Roberts and the other by Tracy Warr this lecture\/talk explored three themes: the notions of beauty, desire and the returned gaze, when filming\/capturing dance on film\/video; the separation of body and image on screen and the experiential potential of the space possessed by the projected representation of the body in video installations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We find something most beautiful (it seems to me), when there is always the promise of more, of the thing we look at being never quite exhausted after any number of encounters. &#8221;<br \/>\nAdam Roberts, 2008<\/p>\n<p>\u201c..on screen, all bodies become avatars. It\u2019s not necessary for the image to be graphic for the image of the body to be made an avatar&#8221;<br \/>\nTracy Warr in a lecture for <em>Performance on Screen, Bristol, 2008 <\/em>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland Green As part of Transaction (24-31 May, 2008), Munich 27 May, 5pm, Ampere Taking its departure point from two quotes, one by Adam Roberts and the other by Tracy Warr this lecture\/talk explored three themes: the notions of beauty, desire and the returned gaze, when filming\/capturing dance on film\/video; the separation of body and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGProgrammes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGProgrammes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGProgrammes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGProgrammes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGProgrammes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGProgrammes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGProgrammes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandgreen.com\/PGProgrammes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}