[-empyre-] relational objects

[nick knouf]

davin heckman wrote:
> Thank you for pushing on this contrast and making me think about what
> I had kind of just glossed over.
> 
> I agree with Norah's idea about the critical necessity of decoupling
> the trace from the original, even if we circle back to talking about
> traces when we talk about originals.

As I mentioned in an earlier post this week, I'm quite interested in
this notion of the trace vis a vis notation of time-based works such as
music, dance, and performance-in-general.  I would be very interested
for others more attuned to the world of dance and performance to comment
about the role/lack-thereof of notation in their work, as it is
something I have only been able to come at in passing.  This has become
more interesting for me in the last day or so, as I read about Merce
Cunningham's plans for shutting down his company in the future.  How
does it work when one choreographer passes on a dance to another?  What
is the materiality of the trace, even if it gets turned into a new original?

nick