Mette Ingvartsen’s Yes Manifesto (2005)

Mette Ingvartsen: ‘Speculations’ in the Artificial Nature Series // Photo: https://www.berlinartlink.com/2017/03/27/fantasy-choreography-of-things-mette-ingvartsens-escape-from-the-body/

Yes to redefining virtuosity
Yes to conceptualizing experience, affects, sensation
Yes to materiality/body practice
Yes to investment of performer and spectator
Yes to expression
Yes to excess
Yes to ‘invention'(however impossible)
Yes to un-naming, decoding and recoding expression
Yes to non-recognition, non-resemblance
Yes to non-sense/illogic
Yes to organizing principles rather than fixed logic systems
Yes to methodology and procedures
Yes to editing and animation
Yes to style as a result of procedure and specificity of a proposal
Yes to multiplicity and difference

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