Assignment for the 5th Project:

Project #5
The Body As Interface

Working with Bergson’s ideas of “l’image du corps” and “l’image de corps”, your second project will work with these two different ideas of the the relationship between the body and the image: 1) in l’image du corps, the body organizes the self as a kind of interface to the world; and 2) in l’image de corps, the body is the perceptive center, the locus where the world is perceived, and where images of the world are formed.

Please plan a simple performance that builds on the relationship between a body (yours or someone else’s) and a media image (an on-screen image or a projection). Choose to work with either the “l’image du corps” or “l’image de corps”—please be very clear which one you are working with.

1)how does your installation/performance frame the body as a Bergsonian “interface”

a) how is the body “produced by” the media image?
Or
b) how does the body “produce” the media image?