« The Body exposed in intimate and public Spaces »
Approached through video-performance
- This thesis, entitled The Body exposed in intimate and public Spaces, questions the internal/external and visible/invisible dualisms through performance. The stages which unwind in the public spaces in Paris and Seoul (South Korea) tie two worlds, two aspects, two sentiments. My research tries to test the following hypothesis : How does the body hidden/shown through performance create an intimate space in a public space? The thesis articulates around two parts : I. The body confined to the exterior and II An intimate space in a public space. All my research focuses on what the body sees and how it is seen. My theories lean on the papers of Merleau-Ponty, Maurice Blanchot, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Gaston Bachelard, Georges Perec. The analysis of Louise Bourgeois's works, Éliane Chiron, Valie Export, Marina Abramovic, Tony Oursler, Tehching Hsieh, Shirin Neshat, Orlan, Nan Goldin and Sophie Calle have influenced me in the role and commitment of the artist in society, on the singular experiment of the body and space. Eight performances (#3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10) realized in the street in Paris and Seoul, resulted in the following thesis : the body hidden/shown from the inside/outside creates the ambiguous feeling of intimacy in itself through confinement in public. The Art reveals at once this emotional body and the inmost collective by visualizing the invisible space in the public space.
- Key concepts : exposed body, intimate space, public space, performance, locked body, confinement, emotion, inmost collective.
