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Article: The wound as creation.(News/Analysis)(body art)(Critical essay)
- Article from:
- Etc. Montreal
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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For humans, the body is the first place of amazement at being self. The human condition is corporeal, but the relationship to incarnation is never entirely resolved. Everyone's relationship to the world is a matter of skin, in that skin signals the border between self and other, interior and exterior, inside and outside. Some artists push the envelope in a form of questioning now adopted by more and more teenage girls (and, to a lesser extent, boys), (1) who resort to scarification to express their suffering. In this discussion, my focus will be on a striking example of the deliberate use of the wound as cry: the performances of Gina Pane (1939-1990).
In body ...