Performative Body Spaces

My introductory presentation aims to address the theme of body and space under the aesthetic category of the human body as living sculpture throughout 20th century avant-garde art and literature (e.g., Bellmer, Benjamin, Höch, VALIE EXPORT, Orlan, Stelarc). Based on the avant-garde aesthetics of transgressing the boundaries of life and art, body and text, I would like to encourage a discussion that could lead to a redefinition of body spaces as performative, corporeal topographies. One result could be that the artists' increasingly expanded physiological body spheres are based on a mythological understanding of bodies and spaces as alterable and exchangeable.