Dancing on My Own - Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy

Simon Wu joins the ranks of Cathy Park Hong and Jeremy Atherton Lin with this expansive and deeply personal essay collection which explores the aesthetics of class aspiration, the complications of creating art and fashion, and the limits of identity politics. In Robyn''s 2010 track Dancing on My Own , the Swedish pop-singer chronicles a night on the dance floor in the shadow of a former lover. She is bitter, angry, and at times desperate, and yet by the time the chorus arrives her frustration has melted away. She decides to dance on her own, and in this way, she transforms her solitude into a more complex joy. Taking inspiration from Robyn''s seminal track, emerging art critic and curator Simon Wu dances through the institutions of art, capitalism, and identity in these expertly researched, beautifully rendered essays. In "For Everyone," Wu explores the complicated sensation of the Telfar bag (often referred to as "the Brooklyn Birkin") and asks whether fashion can truly be revolutionary in a capitalist system--if something can truly be "for everyone" without undercutting someone else. In "A Model Childhood" he catalogs the decades'' worth of clutter in his mother''s suburban garage and its meaning for himself and his family. Throughout, Wu centers the sticky vulnerability of living in a body in a world where history is mapped into every choice we make, every party drug we take, and every person we kiss. Wu''s message is that to dance on your own is to move from critique into joy. To approach identity with the utmost sympathy for the kinds of belonging it might promise, and to look beyond it. A deeply-felt and ultimately triumphant anthem about the never-ending journey of discovering oneself, Dancing on My Own introduces a brilliant new writer on the rise.illiant new writer on the rise.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Simon Wu, Simon Wu
• Verlag: Harper Collins Usa
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 29.05.2024
• EAN: 9780063316201
• ISBN: 978-0-06-331620-1
• Seiten: 224
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 210 mm x 19 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Popular Culture, Theory of art, Biography: general, Capitalism, Asia, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Memoirs, ART / Criticism & Theory, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Literary essays, Fashion and textile design, Literature: history and criticism, Fashion and textile design: accessories, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, POLITICAL SCIENCE: Political Ideologies / Capitalism, LITERATURE: ESSAYS, ART: Criticism & Theory, The arts: general topics, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Asian & Asian American, Literature / Essays