Chapter 6
New technologies of embodiment
Cyborgs and websurfers
In Body Provisional, a performance installation created by Sophia Lycouris and myself in 2002, we told stories of the body’s interior. Our materials were movement, X-ray photographs, rhymes, interviews and the stony, semi-organic material of shells and sand. In the performance, we handed a small digital video camera to our spectators as we engaged them in one-on-one performances. On the camera was a small, LCD display, showing close-ups of crashing waves and sand traversed by traveling feet. Peering at the small display cradled in their hands, the screen lit up in the dark performance space on NYC’s Lower East Side, our participants were invited to feel the pull of our movement. ...
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