%0 Journal Article
%T Implicit Bodies Through Explicit Action
%A Nathaniel Stern
%J Perspectives : International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy
%D 2008
%I 
%X This paper contends that the body is performed. A body can ¡°act¡± as a site of emergence, a boundary project, and an incipience. While Rebecca Schneider¡¯s ¡°explicit body¡± in feminist performance art performatively unfolds (Latin: explicare) and explicates, the implicit body concordantly enfolds (Latin: implicare) and implies. Inter-action is both constitutive of, and always already involved in, the flesh. Like an animated M bius strip, the body feeds back between affection and reflection. The last section of this paper attempts to think through interactive digital art as a proscenium for, and framer of, the implicit body.
%K art
%K digital
%K embodiment
%K interactive
%K relationality
%U http://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/perspectives/resources/stern_implicit_bodies.pdf