Lucy Weir
@lucygweir.bsky.social
Reader and Head of History of Art @edincollegeofart.bsky.social
📚 Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury - out now
📚 A Global History of Modern Dance - out 2026
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📚 Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury - out now
📚 A Global History of Modern Dance - out 2026
linktr.ee/lucygweir
Best of luck, Bryony!
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Best of luck, Bryony!
I think the extra ears are a reference to Stelarc, but the stitched eyes/lips also crop up in Ch 6 of this book (which focuses on Pyotr Pavlensky). It looks like Cronenberg went for a smorgasbord of performance art reference points, which is no bad thing!
March 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I think the extra ears are a reference to Stelarc, but the stitched eyes/lips also crop up in Ch 6 of this book (which focuses on Pyotr Pavlensky). It looks like Cronenberg went for a smorgasbord of performance art reference points, which is no bad thing!
You must be very proud.
February 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
You must be very proud.
Bureaucratic hell = photographs of performances. Photographer's permission, artist's permission, sometimes the dancers' permission(s) 🫠
February 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Bureaucratic hell = photographs of performances. Photographer's permission, artist's permission, sometimes the dancers' permission(s) 🫠
It really brings home the vital role played by *human beings* in providing accurate, sensitive, thoughtful translation, something we should be thinking about as AI threatens to erase so many livelihoods and skillsets...
January 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
It really brings home the vital role played by *human beings* in providing accurate, sensitive, thoughtful translation, something we should be thinking about as AI threatens to erase so many livelihoods and skillsets...