O corpo-limite

Abstract

Bodylimit is a study based on a discourse in which both the physicality and the amorphous experiences of the body as it crosses through layers of situations ranging from rites of passage to urban policies create complexities and zones of destabilization that reveal different forms of knowledge through sense perception and through a poetic experience felt in living flesh. Viewing body modification within the context of extreme transformations (such as tattoos, piercings, scarification, implants, and suspension), the research traces an erratic path through physical practices that blur borders and open fissures and detours to create new poetic paths and new games of signification. Utilizing a poetic and autobiographical writing style, the text mixes images and words to elaborate a web based on the complexities involved in the physical processes it describes. The study situates itself in the fields of Performance Studies and Body Art, in which the discourse of art-life is a permanent phenomenon that brings traces of quotidian life to the forefront of the text. These traces spill and overflow throughout the flesh-text, which is the living material in this body of paper