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Thesis Info
- LABS ID
- 00720
- Thesis Title
- Performing the Flesh: Subject/Object Oscillations of the Body
- Author
- Alice Weber
- E-mail
- alicemaeweber AT gmail.com
- 2nd Author
- 3rd Author
- Degree
- MFA Choreography
- Year
- 2018
- Number of Pages
- University
- Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
- Thesis Supervisor
- Tony Thatcher and Marina Collard
- Supervisor e-mail
- Other Supervisor(s)
- Language(s) of Thesis
- English
- Department / Discipline
- Copyright Ownership
- Alice Weber
- Languages Familiar to Author
- URL where full thesis can be found
- Keywords
- Abstract: 200-500 words
- This thesis maps a theoretical terrain that jointly aims to trouble the ongoing tensions between subject, object and body, with the accompanying performance Solo for a Body (2018). Chapter One takes the transcendental subject in Western hegemony as its starting point and proposes becoming-object as a viable feminist alternative. Chapter Two considers the flesh as the subject/object threshold, exploring how this is insufficient for an extended concept of bodies. Chapter Three addresses body-based performance as a generative space to re-aestheticise gendered and hegemonic subject/object dynamics. Together this establishes a theoretical ground to unsettle expectations of a bounded and a priori feminine self through the aestheticisation of the flesh. As such, the project is not an emancipatory practice but an embodied investigation of hegemonic understandings (of subjects, objects and bodies), and an exploration of the ways this is aestheticised.