Environmental Performance, The Gaze

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Artefacts Dance; The Gaze:

Dancers at the Window
Dancers beyond Art Objects

Jacques Lacan in Book XI takes a twist and a turn veering away from Sartre in his theory of the gaze. Sartre looks at the "Other" as opposed to dolls, mannaquins, and puppets as distinct.

Lacan diverges and investigates solitude and the intrusion of the the human gaze within the field of conciousness.

I am aware of the feminine legacy in dance and seek to challenge the space that dancers take up in the art world. This brings into question the history of power relations in the art world.

Do dancers have the right to be acknowledged as art?
Is the pedastool an elevation and a very small space of control?
Do we look at the gallery and acceptance within the art world longingly or do the arts patron look at dancers through the glass never truly humanizing us?
Are we one step away from exile or are we embraced within the cannon of art history as action artists?
Is the nature of dance as a female pyramid with the few men at the point ready to toppel?
Are we still just pressed against the glass or elevated in the end?


As the leaves fall I ask myself about the nature of the Gaze in a dancers life.

Much love,
Heather