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Thursday, April 18, 2013

Arts jargon

The Guardian is encouraging people to send in examples of the most execrable arts jargon they have found, launching the campaign with this:
"Combining radical notions of performativity and the body as liminal space, my practice interrogates the theoretical limitations of altermodernism. My work, which traverses disparate realms of object-making such as painting and performance, investigates the space between metabolism and metaphysic".

My best recent example:
"The arch antagonist of received ballet wisdom, William Forsythe’s choreographic provocations have earned him as much notoriety as acclaim. Yet beneath the anarchic comedy, the fiercely deconstructive and random-seeming surface of a work such as the second detail there lurks an ungainly but defiant elegance, a vision of dance that forces us to look anew at ballet’s meanings and potentialities."

Click here to join in with the Guardian::
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2013/apr/17/artspeak-best-worst-examples

Or paste your example in the comments!

The Guardian has now collated the results. "Choreographic provocations" is in there with the worst of them!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2013/may/03/artspeak-examples-what-not-to-write?CMP= 

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