CORPUS
This project is dedicated to the perception of one's own body. Developing the ideas of Louise Bourgeois and drawing on Jean-Luc Nancy's, «Fifty-eight Indices on the Body» philosophical and poetic tractatus, the author attempts to understand how we see ourselves, what is important to us, and what we do not perceive at all. How love or pain in bodily perception turns into a whole theater, where we are both spectators and participants at the same time. «Corpus» is an interdisciplinary project and includes a script for an immersive performance with objects, textile objects, paintings, graphics, and installations. The exhibition «CORPUS. The Body: Inside and Outside.» was held at the
Marina Gisich Gallery, Saint-Petersburg in 2013.
Marina Gisich Gallery, Saint-Petersburg in 2013.
«A body’s material. It’s off to one side. Distinct from other bodies. A body begins and ends against another body. The void is itself a subtle kind of body. A body isn’t empty. It’s full of other bodies, pieces, organs, parts, tissues, kneecaps, rings, tubes, levers, and bellows. It’s also full of itself: that’s all it is. The soul is material, made of entirely different matter, matter that has no place, size, or weight. But it’s material, very subtly. And so it drops out of sight. But it's the soul that senses. And the soul, first of all, senses the body. It senses it from all parts containing it and retaining it. If the body didn't retain it, the whole soul would escape in gossamer words, evaporating into the sky.»
Jean-Luc Nancy, «Fifty-eight Indices on the Body»
Jean-Luc Nancy, «Fifty-eight Indices on the Body»
Sketches for an immersive theatrical production with interactive objects.
Objects open up and various substances spill out of them.
The objects make sounds, with various musical instruments integrated into them. Also artists are built into some of the objects.
A body is what determines my existence in the chronotopos, a formula of my materialized time. A body denotes my existence in reality, changing with my living of this reality. A body bears the stamp of all that has been experienced, it is a shell, a signboard, a presentation of the soul. A soul is retained by the body in the structure of a single event. A body provides a story to the soul – a story that has a beginning, a development and an end. A body demonstrates the boundary between the soul – I – and all the rest, thereby giving the soul the opportunity to be – to be an independent, expressed unit. To have a boundary between oneself and a world. A body does not just contain the soul – it is itself a soul manifested in time. Without a body, without a boundary, the soul is inseparable from everything else, it does not exist. Existence is conditioned by time; time manifests itself as a boundary. A boundary between Everything and IMy body is my time. On both sides of the boundary there is the cosmos. In one direction there is an infinitely expanding universe filled with planets and stars, in another – a very similar but infinitely diminishing bio-universe filled with cells and atoms that happen in time. And the point of reference for all this is me, expressed with the help of my body. I watch the world happening inside and out of me. I launch the mechanism of existence by my presence. I limit the life time of everything by my existence in it. The world comes from me and inside me, and it happens while I am separating myself from the world.
Lera Nibiru
Lera Nibiru
