Clones of the Dance
Schedule
Thu Apr 02 2026 at 05:30 pm to 07:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
409 W Circle Dr, East Lansing, MI, United States, Michigan 48824 | East Lansing, MI
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For decades, Peter Sparling, emeritus professor at U of M and alumnus of the Martha Graham Dance Company, filmed himself dancing against greenscreen, using chromakey effects to place his singular or multiplied figure into video landscapes. This practice fractures his narrative self into multiple viewpoints, creating playful essays on identity's hallucinatory aspects. The cloned replicants raise questions: When does our mind shift from recognizing individual bodies to seeing representations of universal ideas? In our CGI-saturated digital world, have we become more vigilant at detecting virtual versus "real" bodies, or have those borders blurred? Can replication represent authority and dominion, or envision humanity's collective future? Join us for a talk that combines spoken presentation with continuous video excerpts spanning four decades of screen-based work, followed by a Q&A facilitated by Prof. Alexandria Davis and a light reception.
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