Soft is fast : Simone Forti in the 1960s and after /
Meredith Morse.
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1 The 1960S; 1 The Natural and the Neutral: Simone Forti, Ann Halprin, and Margaret H'Doubler; 2 Simone Forti in New York: John Cage and Robert Whitman; 3 Scale: Simone Forti's Text Works in An Anthology of Chance Operations; 4 The Dance Constructions, La Monte Young's Performance, and Slow Time; 5 The Problem of the Personal; Part 2 The 1960s and After; 6 Huddle: Inhabitation and Sociality; 7 Disoriented Perception: Simone Forti in the 1970s and Process Art; 8 News Animations and Improvisations: Movement-Feeling-Form. Epilogue: Performing Then as NowNotes; Index.
An innovative analysis of Simone Forti's interdisciplinary art, viewing her influential 1960s ""dance constructions"" as negotiating the aesthetic strategies of John Cage and Anna Halprin.