'To see what's down there': Embodiment, Gestural Archaeologies and Materializing Futures. Issue 1 (March 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Piccini, Angela
• Is Part Of: Paragraph. Volume 38:Issue 1(2015)
• Page Start: 55
• Page End: 68
• Publication Date: 2015-03
• Subjects: archaeology -- television -- UK -- gesture -- Time Team -- Who Were the British? -- agential realism -- Karen Barad; Criticism -- Periodicals; Literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Art criticism -- Periodicals; 809
• DOI: 10.3366/para.2015.0146
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0264-8334

Abstract

Abstract : Concerns with screening embodiment have focused on the way in which cinema invites the spectator to consider a lived sense of the human body as a material subject that feels its own subjectivity. In this paper, I suspend the return of gesture to the transcendental human body. Gesture practises and produces complex and diverse bodies, bodies that do not precede their intra-actions but emerge through them. Drawing on the work of Karen Barad, I consider gesture in television that concerns archaeological practices in order to ask how gesture operates in this televisual subgenre to invite new ways of thinking about the human and other-than-human. Focusing on archaeology on television, I consider entangled gestures as intra-acting, material-discursive boundary-making practices that congeal and fix what we come to know as discrete, bounded bodies.