The phrase "bodily presence" refers to the physical existence or being present in person. It means being there physically, as opposed to being represented or communicated through other means like video calls or written messages. Full definition
Processes, which however are not independent from the physicality and bodily presence of their production, or of the cultural spaces they inhabit and engage with. (bpigs.com)
Alexandra Pirici (b. 1982, Bucharest, Romania) uses performance and choreography to address symbolic manifestations of history through frameworks that define bodily presence in both real and virtual space. (newmuseum.org)
The words «goddamn dyke» incised into the skin - like latex of the triptych interject a violated bodily presence into the work that challenges both the heteronormativity of rural America and abstract painting. (artefuse.com)