{"id":1133,"date":"2016-11-01T19:53:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T19:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archee.uqam.ca\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2022-11-10T19:53:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T19:53:28","slug":"novembre-2016-mediated-bodies-and-intercorporeality-isabelle-choinieres-flesh-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archee.uqam.ca\/novembre-2016-mediated-bodies-and-intercorporeality-isabelle-choinieres-flesh-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Novembre 2016 – Mediated Bodies and Intercorporeality: Isabelle Choini\u00e8re’s Flesh Waves <\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
In an increasingly digital world, it should come as no surprise that digital technologies have infiltrated the landscape of contemporary performance, redefining its practices and discourse, while proposing alternative approaches to performance-making and composition. The integration of technology in performance has moreover challenged the very notions of stage and representation, and, importantly for this article, the perception, figuration and performativity of the body.\u00a0On this last point, questions of mediation and the mediated body have particular ramifications in dance, a discipline which has traditionally upheld the primacy of the live body in performance. If as one critic notes,\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0A digital body (…) operates alternately as a weightless shell, as a translation of physical materiality into a controllable code (…) the occidental image of a smooth, moldable [sic<\/em>] and controllable body (…) structurally unfettered, multiple and boundless in its imaginative\/fantastic possibilities\u00a0\u00bb (Begusch, 1999), the mediated body in Isabelle Choini\u00e8re’s work resists such description, shunning all possible instrumentalization of the body by technology (Choini\u00e8re, 2013), and, on the contrary, placing the tangible, sensate body at the centre of its aesthetic proposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n