Dance in My Experience (Diary Entries)//1965-66

Dance in My Experience (Diary Entries)//1965-66

Helio Oiticica

Oiticica, Helio. Dance in My Experience (Diary Entries)//1965-66. >>>(Need More information to complete citation).

Date: 9/22/2012

Primary claims made in this reading:

Oiticica claims to dissolve marginalization through the act of dance and performance.    

Key Quotes:

"It is as if an immersion into rhythm takes place, a flux where the intellect remains obscured by an internal mythical force that operates at an individual and collective level (in fact, in this instance one cannot establish a distinction between the collective and the individual). (Pg. 105)

Oiticica makes a claim here that makes me uncomfortable,

"I believe that the dynamics of the social structures were at this moment revealed to me in all their crudity, in their most immediate expression, precisely due to my process of discrediting the so-called social layers: Not that I consider their existence but that, for me, they have become schematic, artificial, as if all of a sudden I gazed from a vantage point onto their map, their scheme, being 'external' to them. Marginalization;...has become fundamental for me. This position represents a total 'lack of social place.'"(Pg. 106)

Questions of the reading?

Can one really aim to become "blind to marginalization"?

Is this possibility accessible for anyone, or only those "looking down" at those marginalized below them?