Screening Intimaesthetics: The Paradoxically Private-Public Dancing Body on New Media's Domestic Stage
L. Archer Porter
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ARCHER PORTER is a writer, scholar, and purveyor of performance on new media. As a doctoral Candidate in Culture and Performance at UCLA, she investigates the dancing body in new media, and its 21st century stakes in subjectivity, gender, race, and class. Her dissertation, titled “The Domestic Stage: Dance and Intimacy in the Age of New Media,” excavates the cultural archives of social media to unpack how intimacy is produced, circulated, and consumed in the digital landscape. Besides for her doctoral research, Porter also studies and writes about dance in popular culture, as well as topics concerning performance and technology.
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Abstract
This essay examines the phenomenon of home dancing on new media through an investigation of videos that circulate the platform Instagram. By analyzing the case of a particular home dancer, the essay proposes that undergirding such mundane quotidian performances on the “domestic stage” are techniques of choreographing and aestheticizing intimacy—or producing “intimaesthetics.” This analysis reveals the subtle yet pervasive conditions of neoliberalism in our contemporary mediascape, and the ways in which it engenders paradoxes of performance, space, and media.
This essay examines the phenomenon of home dancing on new media through an investigation of videos that circulate the platform Instagram. By analyzing the case of a particular home dancer, the essay proposes that undergirding such mundane quotidian performances on the “domestic stage” are techniques of choreographing and aestheticizing intimacy—or producing “intimaesthetics.” This analysis reveals the subtle yet pervasive conditions of neoliberalism in our contemporary mediascape, and the ways in which it engenders paradoxes of performance, space, and media.
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