Wavestyle
open flatbed scan of random upper body gestures
(sampled at 600dpi, downsampled to 72dpi)
Giorgio Agamben, Notes on Politics, p. 80:
"Gesture is the name of this intersection between life and art, act and power, general and particular, text and execution. It is a moment of life subtracted from the context of individual biography as well as a moment of art subtracted from the neutrality of aesthetics: it is pure praxis. The gesture is neither use value nor exchange value, neither biographic experience nor impersonal event: it is the other side of the commodity that lets the 'crystals of this common social substance' sink into the situation."
Tags: Agamben | art | body athletic | gesture | micropolitics | motion capture | rhythm | sketchbook | surveillance | tactile burden
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