After sending I'd also rememebered the concept of liminality proposed by Victor Turner/Richard Scbhechner. Expose itself nude in western societies tends to induce some states of perception analog to the risks concerned to some rituals (like walking on fire, etc.) Lucio
On 9/20/06, Lucio Agra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There's a link uniting performance art, risk, presence and, of course nudity. Not considering the fact that nudity, in various cases, do not attract the issue of sexuality in performance, it is, however, one of the most frequent procedures for it is at the core of any conception of artistic research taking body as a "primary medium" (Semitotics of Culture). I've been considering that one of the hypothesis for the insistence on nutidty in performance is the overall influence of Marcel Duchamp. His "Nude descending the staircases" imposed a certain new notion about nudity in art, proposing it as a continuous movement. One cannot despise de role of this image in post-modern/contemporary art's sensibility... greetings Lucio BR On 9/19/06, Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Probably not the first book; there are a lot of books on Gk & Roman stuff > and I have one on Egyptian sexuality revealed in graffiti etc. But maybe > I'm wrong. - Alan > > blog at http://nikuko.blogspot.com - for URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see > http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt - contact [EMAIL PROTECTED], - > general directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org > Trace at: http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk - search "Alan Sondheim" > http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/Members/sondheim >
