Dark Matter
Authored By: Clarinda Mac Low, March 11, 2009
Critical Correspondence, Movement Research
On the eve of International Women’s Day I just happened to be reading an excerpt from Judith Butler’s book Bodies that Matter (1993) in an anthology called Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life. In her feminist philosophical inquiry, Dr. Butler questioned the “material irreducibility of sex” that she saw in much of feminist critical practice, and proposed that questioning our construction of how the female sex is constructed, and, indeed, how all matter is defined, was a vital part of the “democratizing potential” of feminism. She takes apart our definitions of “matter” and then reconfigures them into a new view of the concepts of materiality. About the time I reached this: “The classical association of femininity with materiality can be traced to a set of etymologies which link matter with mater and matrix (or the womb) and, hence with the problematic of reproduction.” the show I was waiting for, the last night of Performance Mix Festival at Joyce Soho, presented by New Dance Alliance every year in downtown New York City, started.
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K.J. Holmes, photo by Elyse Mertz
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stacey
Nice article thanks for sharing!