The origins behind your lockets, hair albums, and gold chain watches!

Headphone warning :,( there’s a strange clicking sound in my audio from my “mic” that reappears throughout that I didn’t notice until I started editing so I apologize… please bear with me. I take this as a sign that I need to actually get a mic. This video is me trying to grapple with the incredibly complex concept of how to define ownership of movement, of dance and very heavily inspired by recent events of Alysa Liu winning gold at the 2026 Milan Olympics, Martha Graham and the legalities of choreography, Kazuko Miyamoto, West African dancers, and Herbert Read (again lol), and FKA twigs

REFERENCES: F.R. David Spring 2024 - Erratum - https://i-n-g-a.com/collections/all/products/f-r-david-spring-2024-erratum Artist, Authorship & Legacy: A Reader - https://www.artbook.com/9781909932456.html The Martha Graham Technique (c) 1975 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuCbs25LGh0 1938-39 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et-M7qid2eA Rite of Spring - https://musicformartha.com/videos-list/ Embattled Garden - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtvBRzF8aDU Martha Graham performing “Tanagra” (1926) - https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8fcsVDP1g0/ Yuriko performing “Primitive Mysteries” troupes-performance-sensitive-and.html Paranoid Finance - Muniesa - https://dokumen.pub/paranoid-finance.html Gloria Mcleon choreography - https://vimeo.com/954239122 2022 Chuma-Miyamoto (1979 remake) - https://youtu.be/y1mEp1mbZB0?si=NF6IUJUJ9lDMwN_W&t=1553 Dramaturgy in Motion: Dance Performance - https://www.scribd.com/document/961416878/Dramaturgy-in-Motion-At-Work-on-Dance-and-Movement-Performance-1st-Edition-Katherine-Profeta To Hell with Culture - Herbert Read - https://archive.org/details/tohellwithcultur00read_0

Longest video yet! I have had two months of much needed self reflection + books to read… I discuss Claire Bishop’s theory on attention, automatism, AI, mid century modern Facebook Marketplace slop, address the hyperfication of media trends causing a reduction in itself, Franco Berardi, Italian Futurism, Herbert Read….. actually I’m going to stop listing things because basically I kind of talk about a lot. But long answer short, NO. it is not dead. Happy Valentine’s day btw _________________ BIBLIO: To Hell with Culture - Herbert Read (https://archive.org/details/tohellwithcultur00read_0) Disordered Attention - Claire Bishops (https://monoskop.org/images/a/a5/Bishop_Claire_Disordered_Attention_How_We_Look_at_Art_and_Performance_Today_2024.pdf) Abandoned Houses - Sam Durant (https://www.samdurant.net/work/abandoned-houses/) → Sam Durant (https://www.samdurant.net/) Grass Roots of Art - Herbert Read (https://archive.org/details/grassrootsofartf00read) Chaos and the Automation - Franco Bifo Berardi (https://www.e-flux.com/books/619254/chaos-and-the-automaton) Symbolic Exchange and Death - Jean Baudrillard (https://dn790009.ca.archive.org/0/items/Baudrillard/Baudrillard.1976.Symbolic-Exchange-and-Death.pdf) The Smartness Mandate - Orit Halpern and Robert Mitchell (https://wvw.zlibrary.to/dl/the-smartness-mandate-0) Cheddar: NYC Oyster Dumping (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kinmq0UPizg) MoMA 2010 "Oyster-recture" (https://www.scapestudio.com/projects/oyster-tecture/)