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100 1 Galin, Nina
245 10 Process-Based Aesthetics In a Product-Based World: Somatic
Awareness as a Critical Lens on Art-Making and Money-
Making in the Modern West
300 317 p
500 Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-
03(E), Section: A
500 Adviser: Lynette Hunter
502 Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2012
520 In this dissertation I propose somatic awareness as a tool
for critical thinking about making art and making money.
Focusing on the educational and therapeutic praxes of F.M.
Alexander, Ida Rolf and Peter Levine, I explore somatic
awareness as an element of scholarly engagement with some
of the complex personal and social issues that arise from
tensions between art and money in contemporary western
culture. I argue that somatic education and therapies may
be fruitfully analyzed as aesthetic activity. I look
critically at these somatic praxes, drawing on the post-
marxist and post-structuralist works of Raymond Williams
and Terry Eagleton. Following them I argue that art is
more aptly described as a process than an object. I
situate my work in the context of contemporary dance,
theater and performance studies, emphasizing dynamic art
practices rather than static works
520 By somatic awareness, I mean initial direction of
awareness to physical sensation, especially pressure or
weight; then to mental or emotional response to sensation,
then back to (changing) sensation, and so on. The
subjective information gathered from noticing the dynamic
interrelationships of physical, mental, emotional and
aesthetic/spiritual is "somatic". I explore a
connection between the Marxist idea of alienation and the
psycho-physiological experience of trauma, as theorized by
Peter Levine
520 I present case studies of three aesthetic productions in
the U.S., each of which uses an approach that emphasizes
somatic awareness. The case studies show a range of
approaches to engaging with structural racism, violence,
and inequities in access to aesthetic (artistic and
somatic) resources. Each case study negotiates between
process-based ("ecological") and product-based
("commodity") economic systems. Chapter 1 looks at the Liz
Lerman Dance Exchange's 2004 Hallelujah Project in Los
Angeles. Chapter 2 looks at Things of the World, a
movement-theater solo I created in 2009-10 for my master's
thesis in choreography. Chapter 3 looks at my practice of
public professional somatic education at the Santa Rosa
Community Market in northern California from 2008-2011.
Participants in each aesthetic project must risk (personal
and social) change to create economic, social and
spiritual value
590 School code: 0029
650 4 Dance
650 4 Theater
650 4 Education, Health
650 4 Aesthetics
650 4 Theater Studies
650 4 Psychology, Cognitive
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