NORTHERN CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART//2019
The Word Becomes Flesh extends the project’s ongoing exploration of text/flesh entanglements. Through projection, wax, sound, and surface, the work stages text and body as mutually constitutive, each formed through the other in the act of encounter.
Drawing on the theological formulation of “the word became flesh,” the work reconfigures that phrase as a cyclical and material process. Text does not simply become body once; rather, text and flesh continually translate one another across repetition, movement, and inscription.
Documentation
Installation views/video/projection documentation/stills/audio.
Research Relation
Within Meeting the Text Halfway, this work sharpens the central proposition that text and body are not separate domains but entangled surfaces. It demonstrates how inscription can be understood not merely as writing on a support, but as a reciprocal process through which bodies are textualised and texts acquire body.
The work is especially important to the project’s thinking around scripture, embodiment, translation, and the phrase “text/flesh” as a methodological and conceptual device.
QR Relation
Section: Methodologies & Methods
Chapter: Meeting the Word and the Flesh Halfway
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