The Poetics of Flesh

Mike Binzer

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The Poetics of Flesh (2013)

Mike Binzer

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The exhibition Let Me Remember You as You Were Before You Existed is an exploration of the subtleties of embodied experience drawing on what I call ‘somatic knowledge’—an embodied, preconceptual and nonpropositional type of knowledge. I developed a sensitivity to this form of embodied understanding through intense somatic training—sixteen years of schooling in ballet. The artworks presented in the R.H.W. Foundation Gallery at the MacKenzie Art Gallery are an attempt to examine, through paint, somatic knowledge and to present a sense of embodied experience that challenges the dualisms created by the representational theory of perception. In an effort to present the subtleties of embodied experience—imminent embodied knowledge and meaning—I have faced the necessity of preventing the spectator from ‘reading’ the artwork and ascribing linguistic meaning to the paintings thereby transcending the materiality of the artworks with linguistic knowledge. Three strategies were implemented in my paintings in an effort to hold the spectator in a space of prelinguistic imminently felt meaning: dis-figuration, indeterminable spaces, and poetic titling. Dis-figuration is the process of reversing the signification of the painted body to present an asignifying flesh. The indeterminable space is meant to further unsettle the signifier-signified relationship by painting a palpable emptiness that is no place, but holds and envelopes the dis-figure. And finally, poetic titling is used for the paintings in an effort to have affective language intensify or point back to the affects presented in the artworks. I hope to exhibit a collection of paintings that present meaning that is not ‘read’, but instead felt, and touch upon a prelinguistic knowledge that expands a sense of who and what we, as human beings, are.

type	research exposition
date	01/08/2011
published	15/03/2013
last modified	15/03/2013
status	published
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affiliation	The University of Regina, SK, CANADA
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url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/32347/32348
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/rc.32347
published in	Research Catalogue

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