Synopsis

Journeying through the mingling mess of materialist entanglement, I am looking at bodies; bodies of any kind. This thesis resembles a gathering of observations and speculations about bodily materiality. It is questioning a body‘s beginnings and its endings while observing points of segregation and surfaces of intersection. Where are the limits, boundaries and borders of a body? And do they actually exist?

I am investigating mechanisms of separation that divide, categorise, marginalise, and oppress our bodies. Simultaneously, I am wondering how, instead, we could acknowledge, allow, and create a space for bodily fusion, transition, transformation, and, finally, entanglement.

Created by

ella hebendanz

Format

artistic research publication

Media

prose, various papers in white, silver, transparent; vinyl cover

Credits

Written, designed, book binding by ella hebendanz

Edited, supervised by Anna Arov

Printed with Hilde Barwegen, Arthur Codier

Special thanks to Astrée Duval, Ines DeRu, pamela varela, Tim Schütze

Presented at

2021, KABK Graduation Show, NL

Project Links

PDF of thesis