Artistic body interventions as tactics of resistance to the governance over the bodies. Issue 3 (1st December 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tratnik, Polona
• Is Part Of: Technoetic arts. Volume 16:Issue 3(2018)
• Page Start: 315
• Page End: 322
• Publication Date: 2018-12-01
• Subjects: Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge -- Periodicals; Interdisciplinary research -- Periodicals; Consciousness -- Periodicals; High technology -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; 001
• DOI: 10.1386/tear.16.3.315_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1477-965X

Abstract

The article presents artistic body interventions as tactics of minimal resistance to the governance over those bodies, i.e., resistance to the apparatuses that govern, control and manage our bodies, and those that also make our bodies sacred. This means the resistance to the apparatuses that separate my body from my own management. Giorgio Agamben calls for the strategy of profanation, for bringing back what was sacred to the use and property of humans. The author offers a thesis that the artistic acts that resist to the power over the bodies do not construct counter-apparatuses to the apparatuses of power, but they do challenge or even sometimes subvert the machines of governance over the bodies.