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Título: How does what's bred in the bone come out in the flesh? : Devora Neumark's interventions and the concept of flesh
Autores: Kiriloff, Vera.
Fecha: 2005
Publicador: McGill University - MCGILL
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Tipo: Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Tema: Neumark, Devora, 1959- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Interactive art -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal.
Descripción: This thesis examines seven of Devora Neumark's artistic interventions that activate an embodied transfer or continuity of knowledge. I am inspired by phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty's notion of "the flesh of the world," that is the element enabling a reversibility between subject and object, specifically with regard to the body. Neumark draws from a repertoire of her everyday activities like crocheting or peeling beets to make a stew. She resituates the activity from one which is traditionally practiced in the private sphere of the home, often undervalued, to one which critically engages passersby in various urban settings. I study the repetitive capacities of these everyday activities, how they are negotiated in the public sphere, and how they remain (re)productively in the flesh through body-to-body transmission. Flesh becomes the operative concept in this thesis and activates a phenomenology in Neumark's interventions that goes beyond Merleau-Ponty's and which engages with both aesthetic and socio-political questions.
Idioma: en