Abstract

This paper contends that the body is performed. A body can “act” as a site of emergence, a boundary project, and an incipience. While Rebecca Schneider’s “explicit body” in feminist performance art performatively unfolds and explicates, the implicit body concordantly enfolds and implies. Inter-action is both constitutive of, and always already involved in, the flesh. Like an animated Möbius strip, the body feeds back between affection and reflection. The last section of this paper attempts to think through interactive digital art as a proscenium for, and framer of, the implicit body