ABSTRACT
Bodies in Flight formed in 1990 to make work about the encounter between flesh and text. Eighth project Do the Wild Thing! was the first to be led by a specific research concern: to explore this encounter between discursive and embodied practices by separating what is heard and what is seen. In 2012, for Performing Documents' Do the Wild Thing! Redux, four of the original collaborators extended the show's ideas of non-collaboration by working independently until the day of installing the work. Photographer Edward Dimsdale decided to respond to his archive of negatives from his documentation of Do the Wild Thing!, as well as super-8 footage he had taken of the show's final dance sequence. Redux did not provide a more complete version of Do the Wild Thing!, as film directors might like to think their reduxs do—a version more original than the original.
