Parallax
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Thematic Issue: Installing the Body

The act of installing something requires not only a particular something to be installed and a particular place for this something to be installed, but also a purpose. What is installed is assumed to be a specialized and ultimately useful apparatus or machinery. We want to think about how the body functions as this kind of apparatus in divergent disciplines. Over the past years, the body has been established with a certain prestige in a variety of fields of theoretical, artistic and other inquiry. Now that the body has been set into a ‘ready-for-use’ position, installed as it were, this issue of parallax reflects back on the job.

‘Installing the Body’ approaches these questions from the intersection of three fields of enquiry and their overlapping as well as diverging investments into the apparatus of the body: dance studies, installation art and cinema studies. In different ways and to different ends, in each of these fields the body has been successfully installed as a central theoretical issue that brings into view the relational aspects of experience and meaning making.

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