{"id":10148,"date":"2012-09-28T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T23:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=10148"},"modified":"2026-09-27T13:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T12:09:59","slug":"alan-sondheim-disappearing-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=10148","title":{"rendered":"Alan Sondheim &#8211; <em>Disappearing Body<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/09_2012\/whirl1.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/whirl1.jpg' alt='whirl1'\/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/09_2012\/whirl1.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nDisappearing Body (2012, 44MB, 1:02min loop)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Time marches on but some things don&#8217;t change and one of these is<br \/>\nour unbounded admiration here for the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alansondheim.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Sondheim<\/a>.<br \/>\nThis is a perhaps a lollipop in comparison to some of his work but<br \/>\nit is, as always, rich and beautiful and lodges both in the conscious<br \/>\nmind and in our dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Says Sondheim:<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynrail.org\/2004\/10\/artseen\/mark-esper\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Esper&#8217;s Two-Tone Enlightenment work<\/a> forms the basis<br \/>\nof this short video. The screen presents shadows as positive,<br \/>\nnot negative; infrared light forms the projection source<br \/>\nwhich is read and interpreted by revolving LEDs.<\/p>\n<p>The body disappears. In the video, I imitated the effect<br \/>\nusing video echo in an attempt to erase the body almost<br \/>\nentirely. Mark&#8217;s piece is brilliant, and the video is a<br \/>\nbyproduct; I take advantage of the illumination to create<br \/>\na somewhat clumsy series of movements.<\/p>\n<p>Thus the mechanical is made virtual, and the virtual made<br \/>\nmechanical; such reversals form the core of theory povera.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disappearing Body (2012, 44MB, 1:02min loop) Time marches on but some things don&#8217;t change and one of these is our unbounded admiration here for the work of Alan Sondheim. This is a perhaps a lollipop in comparison to some of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=10148\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,33,40,71,14,51,59,35,104,121,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-conceptual","category-dance","category-exhibition","category-experimental","category-installation","category-newmediaart","category-remix","category-somatic","category-sondheim","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10148"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11517,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148\/revisions\/11517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}