Comments on: Dance Anywhere http://blog.sfmoma.org/2008/04/29/dance-anywhere/ ............................................................................................."Take your pleasures seriously."....................Charles Eames............................ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:13:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Suzanne http://blog.sfmoma.org/2008/04/29/dance-anywhere/#comment-52 Suzanne Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:23:05 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=147#comment-52 True, this is a bit lazy and watered-down use of the word, which you more appropriately describe, via Chris Marker, here and which term is often co-opted to describe lots of forms of unsanctioned act in public space. Is it forbidden to dance in the Atrium? Not that I know of. It's unusual though, and it does take courage to walk into a fairly formal institutional lobby, take your shoes off and start dancing, and change the usual patterns of the space. I don't know that 'intervention' is quite the word for it either. What would you call it? True, this is a bit lazy and watered-down use of the word, which you more appropriately describe, via Chris Marker, here and which term is often co-opted to describe lots of forms of unsanctioned act in public space. Is it forbidden to dance in the Atrium? Not that I know of. It’s unusual though, and it does take courage to walk into a fairly formal institutional lobby, take your shoes off and start dancing, and change the usual patterns of the space. I don’t know that ‘intervention’ is quite the word for it either. What would you call it?

]]> By: Toby http://blog.sfmoma.org/2008/04/29/dance-anywhere/#comment-51 Toby Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:41:59 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=147#comment-51 Cute - but can someone explain how exactly this is "guerilla"? Is it forbidden to dance in the MOMA lobby? Did MOMA security get involved? If I do anything other than pay my $ and be a good art consumer, can I call it an intervention? TT "I have listened to the stories of former guerrilla fighters, who had fought in conditions so inhuman that they pitied the Portuguese soldiers for having to bear what they themselves suffered. That I heard. And many more things that make one ashamed for having used lightly—even if inadvertently—the word guerrilla to describe a certain breed of film-making" -Chris Marker, Sans Soleil Cute - but can someone explain how exactly this is “guerilla”? Is it forbidden to dance in the MOMA lobby? Did MOMA security get involved? If I do anything other than pay my $ and be a good art consumer, can I call it an intervention?
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“I have listened to the stories of former guerrilla fighters, who had fought in conditions so inhuman that they pitied the Portuguese soldiers for having to bear what they themselves suffered. That I heard. And many more things that make one ashamed for having used lightly—even if inadvertently—the word guerrilla to describe a certain breed of film-making”
-Chris Marker, Sans Soleil

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