| Popis: |
Drawing on official early nineteenth-century accounts of my fifth great-grandmother’s record of theft and personal recollections of my grandmother’s turn of phrase, “Up here for thinking, down there for dancing”, I examine historical dislocations of bodies and their experiences of ecstasy and distress. Luce Irigaray describes our origin “from a union, the unpredictable advent of a not appropriable event”, an origin that “calls us back to the question of our human being” (2017, pp. v–vi.). She emphasises that to be born, in fact, to exist in a way that cultivates life, requires us to be ‘ec-static’ with respect to our origin and our desire. But how can we unite or at least reconcile our everyday, embodied being with our desire to somehow transcend it? Within ourselves? Between us? And how can we do this ethically? Here, these questions are brought into conversation with my own contemporary art practice and the theology of Catherine Keller and others. This interdisciplinary approach is constructive, entangling theoretical ends in order to consider the affects of ‘ec-stasis’ on the autonomy and belonging of human beings and speculate about the implications of ecstatic bodies for contemporary Christian religious communities. |
