Making sense of no body

Abstract

The reconfiguration of the sensing system as the body encounters the digital image deterritorialises the body’s everyday modes of proprioception and spatial orientation. The assumption here is the increasing ‘instability’ of the body in a contemporary world where the digital screen image mediates and renegotiates our physical encounters.  In prioritising the body through dance and somatic paradigms, in these screen environments, there becomes potential for rethinking a body politic for performance and somatic practice.

My strategy is to reconfigure the multi-modal processing where the screen dominates the visual faculties in the mind/body/screen relationship.

This investigation into the screen/body opens up new possibilities for the spatial and corporeal, as the body and the screen fold into a mesh of multiplicity and ‘in-between-ness’.