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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
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Is my rephrasing OK?
Can I rephrase the highlighted part as "the aim is to begin with that form of artworks that we have talked about before, those artworks that we can navigate or manoeuvre inside or around the structures they offer in order to identify how they ‘perform city-ness"?
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Apart from being virtually impossible for one person to undertake meaningfully without falling into several obvious traps relating to ‘colonialist’ or, to re-invoke Silverman, ‘cannabalistic’ tendencies – to say nothing of limited available time in which to conduct credible first-hand research – it is in any case very much the aim to begin with the suggested form of artworks or art events: in a sense to navigate or manoeuvre inside or around the structures they offer in order to identify how they ‘perform city-ness’.
Context:
Apart from being virtually impossible for one person to undertake meaningfully without falling into several obvious traps relating to ‘colonialist’ or, to re-invoke Silverman, ‘cannabalistic’ tendencies – to say nothing of limited available time in which to conduct credible first-hand research – it is in any case very much the aim to begin with the suggested form of artworks or art events: in a sense to navigate or manoeuvre inside or around the structures they offer in order to identify how they ‘perform city-ness’.
Top answer
If you're trying to learn English by reading this almost incomprehensible artsy jargon, you're really beating yourself over the head. I'm a native English speaker in the US, and I can barely understand it myself. : performance art) enables them to project the essence of the city ("perform city-ness").
- If you're trying to learn English by reading this almost incomprehensible artsy jargon, you're really beating yourself over the head.
- I'm a native English speaker in the US, and I can barely understand it myself.
- : performance art) enables them to project the essence of the city ("perform city-ness").
- That is, how does the viewer or reviewer "navigate" in and around the structures of these forms in order to understand how they project "city-ness"?
- But the above is virtually impossible for a lone person to do without falling into traps that await such an undertaking: colonialist biases, cannabalistic biases (as outlined by Silverman), time-restraints on first-hand research, etc.
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If you're trying to learn English by reading this almost incomprehensible artsy jargon, you're really beating yourself over the head. I'm a native English speaker in the US, and I can barely understand it myself. Here's a restatement of the text in easier-to-understand English, as I read it:
The aim here is to identify how the form of city-based artworks or art events (i.e.: performan
The aim here is to identify how the form of city-based artworks or art events (i.e.: performan
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