First excerpt is for you Natalia and probably a comment on general nakedness in the performances of the 60,70 and later on. To be honest undressing for a performance piece right now doesn’t mean anything for me…it has no value, it’s a line that is now crossed with no purpose…
“Undressing presupposes a feeling of helplessness, vulnerability, violation of human rights, humiliation, abasement (for example, description of execution and agony of stark naked people in “One of the three is still alive” by Italo Calvino). A protective function of clothing might be of such importance that can be applied not only to an individual but also to the society as a whole (e.g., festival of the Protection of the Virgin – miraculous protection with a veil – a ”maforij” (the Church Slavonic language) of the Virgin) and inanimate things (city fortifications were called “kozukh” /enclosure/ and “ohaben’” in Old Slavonic).”
Thank you for sending me this comment, Taus. I find your statments sometimes very categoric or dogmatic if you want. I think before you make a statment you should analise, examine and/or dichotomize the subgect of your interest. I incorrage you to read this article written by Natalia Abalakova. Find bellow. I hope you will understand the notion of corporality in performance art. Sorry, its in russian only.
Between Subget and Body
http://www.owl.ru/avangard/mezhdusubyektomitelom.html
