Spatial Justice Book Launch .....Choreographed by :- Anish Popli

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos Spatial Justice Book Launch

Choreographed by :- Anish Popli
Creative director- Choreotheque School of Contemporary Dance

Dancers:-
Maeve McPhillips
Yannika Nanni

Sound/ music Collaborator:-
Ruby Colley and James Wilkie
The Concept Note :-
We are all bodies – human, animal, mineral – and all bodies occupy space. Bodies are space.Skin separates inside from outside but this separation is impressionistic, translucent, momentary. Flows move between inside and outside all the time. There is no outside – it is all one vast continuum where bodies flow and pause, repeating their movements along and against this spatial continuum. But because it is too much to live constantly out in the flows and no one can do it, bodies rupture the continuum. The continuum becomes the space of
one body, where the body imagines that it belongs, from where it gets its identity. We are space but space is frightening. We cut it in pieces.Each body is a piece of space. Each piece of space and each body moves along certain rules, norms, laws. The law of the body is not different to the law of space. Various bodies move along each other, following the same rules about movement – they need to rupture the immense continuum that is chaos and bring about an order of movement. This is the lawscape, space that is determined by laws determining the way bodies move. Lawscape is the city, the library, the tube, our own bathroom, a state, the world. Everything is lawscape.Lawscapes come into conflict. They freeze the way things are supposed to be done, fix the law and think this is the only law that exists: my law! Each lawscape, namely each body along other bodies, claim a specific space at a specific time, governed by the specific laws.
This is the conflict: who has access to resources, who gets the last seat, who eats more than the other, where are the boundaries between my home and yours, my space and yours. Conflict is everywhere. From conflict emerges spatial justice. Spatial justice is not a fixed concept, nor a practice where everyone is happily fixed in their own place of ‘belonging’ and identity and community etc. No. Spatial justice is the constant, repeated questioning of which body can occupy what space. Spatial justice demands that we never take things for granted but we keep on asking: why do I think I belong here? Why is my body moving like this in relation to other bodies? Where does this space end? Spatial justice is not an answer. It is the largest question that exists. It is existence.

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