The Body Skinned Rethinking performative presence
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01/12/2009
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In this paper I examine the transformation that the skin has undergone over the centuries. This change in conception in the skin whereby the skin is considered less a boundary space and more akin to a milieu, a meeting place for the other senses, allows me to posit the performative body as one engaged in a haptic condition, as a body in intimately lived-in spaces with tactile relations. A shift from the optical towards the haptic, in which the all- encompassing god-like view of traditional performance environments becomes replaced by a more haptic condition, as can be exemplified in performances in dispersed environments, posits the body skinned as a fragile body that wants to favour the incomplete and the fragmented. The body skinned is a body initiated by the observed and the perspectival, but it is nourished by means of the local and the embodied. It is a body that, like the skin, is more akin to a meeting place of, and for, the other senses, as well as for senses of the others. Most clearly, the body skinned brings to the fore a potential of being ‘connected a little less’. It is a body that embraces notions of the incomplete, of glances, and of fantasies, and in this light may be a body more ideally suited to environments that purposely displace performative action, such as found in network performance environments. |
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eng |
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info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
Fonte |
Schroeder , F 2009 , ' The Body Skinned Rethinking performative presence ' Performance Research , vol 14 , no. 4 , pp. 60-64 . DOI: 10.1080/13528160903552949 |
Palavras-Chave | #/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1213 #Visual Arts and Performing Arts |
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article |