THE OPEN OFFICE FOR WORDS
February’s Open Office for Words took place on the 1st of February at ADA, Area for Debate and Art, Rotterdam.
Speakers included: Alexis Blake, Marjolijn Dijkman, Deirdre M. Donoghue, and Sjoerd Westbroek.
The following reader has been compiled from the texts and artworks that were present.
A selection of Coffee, Rooibos and Chinese Jasmine tea was poured.
FEBRUARY READER: Gesture
Theory:
-Notes on Gesture in Means Without End: Notes on Politics, Giorgio Agamben, University of Chicago Press, 2000.
-The Politics of Small Gestures, Mika Hannula, Art-ist publications, Istanbul 2006.
-Gesture and Thought, David Mc Neill, University of Chicago, 2006.
-Two Gestures While Waiting for a Third, Victor J.Vitanza, (http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/technocapitalism/libidinal)
-Chrilogia: Or The Natural Language of The Hand, John Bulwer, London, Thomas Harper 1644.
-Becoming Besides Ourselves: The Alphabet, Ghosts and Distributed Human Being, Rotman, Lenoir, Duke University Press, 2008.
–Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture and Action, Henri Siddons, Printed for Sherwood, Neely and Jones, London, 1822.
-Gesture Sequences in The Practice of Everyday Life-Volume 2. Certeau, Giard, Mayol, Univerisity of Minnesota, 1998.
-Social Choreography; Ideology as Performance in Dance and Everyday Movement, Andrew Hewitt, 2005.
-Yvonne Rainer, The Mind is a Muscle, Catherine Wood, Afterall Books, 2007.
-Theory of The Street, Paulien Oltheten, NAI Publishers,
–Gesture and Speech Production, De Ruijter, University of Nijmegen, 1999.
–Gesture and The Nature of Language, Armstrong, cambridge University Press, 1995.
-Gesture in Medieval Drama and Art, (ed.) Clifford Davidson, Medieval Institute Publication, 2005.
-Gesture:Visible Action as Utterance, Kendon, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
PhD Dissertation:
– Gestus in The Theatres of Brecht and Beckett, Barry Batorsky, The Graduate Centre of The City University of New York, 1987.
Journals:
Gesture, John Benjamin’s Publishing Company,Amsterdam, NL.
Art Books:
-Theatrum Orbis Terrarum / Gestures, Marjolijn Dijkman, Jan Van Eyck Academie and Peacock Visual Arts.
-Survival Of An Idea, Özlem Altin, 2008.
Art Works:
-Monster, Ruth Legg, (video work 9’33”).
Deirdre M. Donoghue 
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