Abstract:This essay offers a close reading of Archive (2014), an hour-long performance
by Israeli dancer and choreographer Arkadi Zaides, during which the artist
conducts a corporeal dialogue with audio-visual documentation of human
rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territories. I will point to
the ways in which the work’s atypical engagement with the mediation
of violence resonates Judith Butler’s thought on opaque subjectivities,
collective responsibility, risk and complicity… Show more
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