The Body Voyage as Visual Representation and Art Performance
Författare
Summary, in English
This paper looks at the notion of the body as an interior landscape that is made intelligible through visual representation. It discerns the key figure of the inner corporeal voyage, identifies its main elements and examines how contemporary artists working with performances and installations deal with it. A further aim with the paper is to discuss what kind of image of the body that is conveyed through medical visual technologies, such as endoscopy, and relate it to contemporary discussions on embodiment, embodied vision and bodily presence. The paper concludes with a recent exhibition by the French artist Christian Boltanski, which gives a somewhat different meaning to the idea of the body voyage.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2011
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
222-241
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Nuncius
Volym
26
Issue
1
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Brill
Ämne
- History of Ideas
Nyckelord
- medical images
- performance art
- les archives du coeur
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0394-7394