Sculpture, Video, and Dance: Thoughts About the Consistency of Gestures

Abstract

In this article, space is rendered as a complex circuit of gestures, matters and perceptions. Within such a triad, dance seems to have a lot to do with cinema and sculpture, which seems to have a lot to do with dance and cinema, which seems to have a lot to do with sculpture and dance. I speculate on the consistency of the gesture in the interstice of those three artistic metaframes. Based on the video works of sculptor Richard Serra, I investigate his handling of audiovisual materiality and how this helps me delve into the performativity of the cut in the collaborative work of filmmaker Thierry de Mei and choreographer Anne Therese de Keersmaeker.