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The Body Voyage as Visual Representation and Art Performance

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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.

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Pages

222-241

Publication/Series

Nuncius

Volume

26

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Brill

Topic

  • History of Ideas

Keywords

  • medical images
  • performance art
  • les archives du coeur

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0394-7394