Constitutions
<p>This collection consists of a series of texts and documentation of artworks that attend to modes of constituting social bodies. A constitution might allude to a map, a garment, a code, cosmogony, a body, a people, an agreement, or an enfolding process. These texts and works move the social...
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| author | Chou, S |
| author2 | Martin, D |
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| description | <p>This collection consists of a series of texts and documentation of artworks that attend to modes of constituting social bodies. A constitution might allude to a map, a garment, a code, cosmogony, a body, a people, an agreement, or an enfolding process. These texts and works move the social through bodies—biological, political, infrastructural, and digital—and relate such bodies’ knowledge in various states of digest: partiality, fluidity, congelation, breakdown. They are reflections on consuming, ingesting, and metabolizing, or in other words, processes of incorporating and embodying. They are reflections on ways of moving through time and space. Somatic metaphors can include physical movement as well as how other entities move between bodies, like pathogens, or knowledge. Circulations lead us from inside out, modeling larger phenomena and technologies on bodily networks. Such networks might be reassimilated into bodies, as codes might likewise be embodied.</p>
<p>To be a body amongst others is a process of forming via transmission, to acknowledge that a body is an unstable assembly-in-process, a series of constitutions.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:14d0e3e3-2b46-4f3a-a4ac-3af53fbed85e2023-11-20T11:21:58ZConstitutionsThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:14d0e3e3-2b46-4f3a-a4ac-3af53fbed85eArtEnglishHyrax Deposit2022Chou, SMartin, DBull, M<p>This collection consists of a series of texts and documentation of artworks that attend to modes of constituting social bodies. A constitution might allude to a map, a garment, a code, cosmogony, a body, a people, an agreement, or an enfolding process. These texts and works move the social through bodies—biological, political, infrastructural, and digital—and relate such bodies’ knowledge in various states of digest: partiality, fluidity, congelation, breakdown. They are reflections on consuming, ingesting, and metabolizing, or in other words, processes of incorporating and embodying. They are reflections on ways of moving through time and space. Somatic metaphors can include physical movement as well as how other entities move between bodies, like pathogens, or knowledge. Circulations lead us from inside out, modeling larger phenomena and technologies on bodily networks. Such networks might be reassimilated into bodies, as codes might likewise be embodied.</p> <p>To be a body amongst others is a process of forming via transmission, to acknowledge that a body is an unstable assembly-in-process, a series of constitutions.</p> |
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