{"title":"Mary Kate Connolly","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMary Kate Connolly\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts insightful explorations within the realm of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, offering readers thoughtful reflections on the ways creativity shapes our lives. Her work delves into the subtle fragments of experience, drawing connections that reveal the unexpected beauty in everyday moments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a keen eye for detail and a deft narrative style, Connolly invites readers to consider the intersection of art, identity, and memory. Her writing is both evocative and precise, making each page an invitation to see the world anew.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"in-smithereens-by-mary-kate-connolly-9781835950524","title":"In Smithereens","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn artistic material encounter with costumes from the archive of iconic British choreographer Lea Anderson.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Smithereens\u003c\/em\u003e offers new strategies to understand performances through their material remnants, suggesting alternative ways in which these arguably haunted costumes can live on as ghosts inside and outside of the archive. What happens to contemporary dance costumes when the show is over and their surrounding legacy slips from view? How might costumes be mobilised towards representational repair, post-performance?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLocated within Lea Anderson's choreographic archive, this book charts a series of hands-on interventions with the fabric remains of her companies The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs. Centred on practices of disintegration, preservation, transaction, and display, this book offers provocative modes of engaging with the physical leftovers of performance, the degrading of memory and legacy around pre-digital theatre work, and the temporal material transitions of artefacts enduring outside of traditional museological contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow might we regard these mercurial items? As precious relics to be protected in museum holdings, ghostly harbingers of residual performance histories, or inconvenient detritus? The book travels from prop makers' studios to auction houses and galleries, incorporating filmmaking, artefact handling, and curation along the way, in lively dialogue with perspectives from dance history, material culture, sociology, and performance studies. The choreographic archive is envisioned as a repository of the awkward, scattered remains of legacy blown apart into fragments. Smithereens, which can, if we allow them, demand an alternative after-life that disrupts the vanishing inflicted on these costumes and the companies who danced in them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470867972332,"sku":"9781835950524","price":257.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781835950524-in-smithereens.jpg?v=1775229529"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/mary-kate-connolly.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}