Embodied Multi{(Body; Space; Time; Performance;)} Marlot Meyer (2020)
Technology has created an interconnected, globalised world, with digital experiences reshaping our terms of existence and presenting us with bewildering opportunities and threats. Yet we feel we are moving further away from what it means to be human as we lose our connection to our bodies, nature and our immediate environment. But a disembodiement simply means a shift of focus from object to communication and interaction. What does it then mean, to be embodied in a mediated world? Are there new possibilities that only exist in the liminal spaces between physical and virtual?
Technology has created an interconnected, globalised world, with digital experiences reshaping our terms of existence and presenting us with bewildering opportunities and threats. Yet we feel we are moving further away from what it means to be human as we lose our connection to our bodies, nature and our immediate environment. But a disembodiement simply means a shift of focus from object to communication and interaction. What does it then mean, to be embodied in a mediated world? Are there new possibilities that only exist in the liminal spaces between physical and virtual?
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I have always found such power and connection
to my sense of self when I run. My muscles teasing
to push harder, faster. Burning with anticipation.
They swim in ecstasy as their purpose is fulfilled.
The jitters, shivers, and vibrations give me an
almost sensual relationship to my body. This
relationship expands, and I am aware of the here
and now. All the things outside the boundary of
my skin, seep through me. I am embodied in the
present.
Everything moves. In the physical, emotional,
mental, and even virtual spaces we inhabit. There
is movement that is independent from us. The
movement of blood, air, water in our bodies, the
seasons, the rotation of our planet, of the solar
system, and all that expands. There is movement
we can affect through personal will like our
direction of thoughts, when to move from silence
to manifesting them, how we move through
spaces, how we act in different situations and
so on. There are also places in between, when
thoughts are flowing without our conscious
choosing, or when our ancestors sang and
danced for the rain to come and eventually it did.
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