Tuesday, September 23, 2003
Mike over at Visible Monsters has signed up for this wildly interesting project called Skin - which is a mortal work of art.
Each participant must agree to have one word of the story tattooed upon his or her body.
The full text will be known only to participants, who may, but need not choose to establish communication with one another.
...participants will be known as "words". They are not understood as carriers or agents of the texts they bear, but as its embodiments.
Only the death of words effaces them from the text. As words die the story will change; when the last word dies the story will also have died.
I have written earlier of my fascination with the body as a text, and in this project not only the body but the entire person becomes a word. However, although I briefly thought of signing up for this, I also realised that exactly this - that the person becomes a word - is what ultimately makes me decide against it. I would like my body to be a text in itself, a fully rounded, independent, self-contained unit of language. In this project, the body is part of a whole, to an extent depending on other body-units to perform its function satisfactory.
But it's an interesting proposition. And good luck to all involved!
- I hope to see the finished product some time.
Each participant must agree to have one word of the story tattooed upon his or her body.
The full text will be known only to participants, who may, but need not choose to establish communication with one another.
...participants will be known as "words". They are not understood as carriers or agents of the texts they bear, but as its embodiments.
Only the death of words effaces them from the text. As words die the story will change; when the last word dies the story will also have died.
I have written earlier of my fascination with the body as a text, and in this project not only the body but the entire person becomes a word. However, although I briefly thought of signing up for this, I also realised that exactly this - that the person becomes a word - is what ultimately makes me decide against it. I would like my body to be a text in itself, a fully rounded, independent, self-contained unit of language. In this project, the body is part of a whole, to an extent depending on other body-units to perform its function satisfactory.
But it's an interesting proposition. And good luck to all involved!
- I hope to see the finished product some time.
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