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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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