Keywords
body
ritual
documentation
film
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Abstract
This paper explores themes around the performing body in terms of how it relates and responds to physical and emotional landscapes. It analyses key themes on identity, trauma, and the body as an archive while also looking at ways in which contemporary practices of using the body as a material can be understood as a gestural language to assist in the re-imagination of identities through the act of imprinting, marking, and performing.
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