Kiki Smith, Womb (open) and Womb (closed) 1986
Tag: body
Gary Hill – Inasmuch As It Is Always Already Taking Place, 1990 – video installation
Alice Notley | Songs for the Unborn Second Baby
Medea | Seneca: Six Tragedies | Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Emily Wilson
Alice Notley | Songs for the Unborn Second Baby
The body is also directly involved in a political field; power relations have an immediate hold upon it; they invest it, mark it, train it, torture it, force it to carry out tasks, to perform ceremonies, to emit signs.
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, 2nd edn, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Vintage, 1995), 25
berlinde de bruyckere
Martha Araujo (Brazilian, b. 1943), Para um corpo nas suas impossibilidades (For a body in its impossibilities), 1985
Documentation of performance: three black-and-white photographs. 8 5/8 × 6 11/16 in. (22 × 17 cm) each. Collection of Martha Araújo; courtesy of Galeria Jaqueline Martins. ©the artist.
Kiki Smith, from a photograph book
My body goes before me, like a lantern down a dark lane, bringing one thing after another out of darkness into a ring of light. I dazzle you; I make you believe that this is all.
Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Kiki Smith, Second Choice (17 parts), 1989, ceramic
Little Bristling Soul 