Programska knjižnica 9. Lošinjskih dana bioetike - Hrvatsko ...

MINE, YOUR, OUR BODY/IES?
Many will say that they consider the Body to be the only safe harbor,
the only intrinsically intimate place. The place, where other voices become
silent, our only possession, or the place that can simply be called “Me”.
However, many “do not feel comfortable in their skin”, claiming that this
body has been given to them by mistake – that it is the expression of everything
else except the “Me”. The Body, as the reality that was presented to
our being, seems to be tangible, comprehensive, and simultaneously divided
between the object and the subject. The reliance of the “Self”, and also
of the “You”, and the “They”, represents incarnation and the illustration.
This nucleus, in which the meanings are articulated between nature and
culture, freedom and prohibition, individual and society, which belongs
to us as well as the medical science, belongs no less to the Art. In this lecture,
I will try to walk through the art works/bodies of artists like Marina
Abramović, Gina Pane, and Fakir Musafar, in which aesthetics faces ethics
and the foundations of everyday life and its constructed and arbitrary
dimensions are being reflected.
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