The Miracle of the Rose is Wyn Evans's homage to the Jean Genet prison chronicle that details confinement and sublimation
as bodily experience.
Through research, McNulty looks for new frameworks for activity, to create works which propose a new kind of relationship to time and space, to histories, as well
as our bodily experience of such forms.
Not exact matches
As the living person draws upon a wider
bodily experience, so the conscious ego, if there should be one at a particular moment, draws upon a vast ocean of unconscious feeling which sustains it.
A man to them was primarily a body, animated, to be sure, with a breath - soul, but still basically a body, and all his
experiences, intellectual and emotional
as well
as physical, were conceived in
bodily terms.
Over the course of time, this thread rises and falls between extremes of focal attention and a more diffused, conformal
experience of its
bodily inheritance
as transmuted within the various threads of the supportive nexus.
Now, Gudorf contends, present inroads on this tradition insist that: «1)
bodily experience can reveal the divine, 2) affectivity is
as essential
as rationality to true Christian love, 3) Christian love exists not to bind autonomous selves, but
as the proper form of connection between beings who become human persons in relation, and 4) the
experience of
bodily pleasure is important in creating the ability to trust and love others, including God.»
But the ritual certainly serves to deepen faith,
as the
bodily involvement heightens the
experience.
Our normal, ordinary
bodily experience is like that of, say, feeling tired, which we might describe
as a general feeling of tension and strain broadly diffused throughout the whole body.
Once we understand the Hebrew success in conceiving Yahweh
as the great «I,» we can see that Hebrew reflection, or perhaps better, Hebrew
experience with Yahweh, led to the explicit rejection of the idea that he had
bodily form or was localized in spatial terms.
their [
bodily] sexual union therefore can actualize and allow them to
experience their real common good — their marriage...
as an intelligible common good even if, independently of the spouses» will, their capacity for biological parenthood will not be fulfilled by that act of genital union.»
Although they may choose such acts
as means of
experiencing personal intimacy, the resulting
experience is not and can not be the
experience of any real unity between them; it is not and can not be the
experiencing of a common good attained in and through an act of
bodily union.
As the Christian comes to abandon his belief in the empty tomb and «bodily resurrection», even though he once regarded it as a sure and certain proof of the truth of Christianity, he may experience an exhilarating sense of freedom not unlike that felt by Paul when for the sake of Christ he abandoned the former things in which he truste
As the Christian comes to abandon his belief in the empty tomb and «
bodily resurrection», even though he once regarded it
as a sure and certain proof of the truth of Christianity, he may experience an exhilarating sense of freedom not unlike that felt by Paul when for the sake of Christ he abandoned the former things in which he truste
as a sure and certain proof of the truth of Christianity, he may
experience an exhilarating sense of freedom not unlike that felt by Paul when for the sake of Christ he abandoned the former things in which he trusted.
Whitehead describes in some detail the transformations and transmutations that are involved in the process of human
experience being affected by these external physical events
as transmitted through
bodily ones.
Thus his argument in support of his system involves an appeal to the fundamental importance of our
bodily experience rather than simply our
experience as centered selves (cf. AI 243).
Our relation to God is, therefore, more intimate than to our own bodies, at least
as Whitehead explicates our
bodily experience.
Even in dreams,
as Bergson has shown, once and for all so far
as I am concerned, two further realities are involved: some aspects of the subject's own past
experiences (memory) and (sensory awareness) of the subject's
bodily state, in whatever sense it has a body, and with the last, to some extent, the state of the environment,
as well.
Those who view sex
as more than a
bodily experience —
as a melding of two bodies, souls, and spirits — seem to me to be always on a spiritual quest for more of God.
For Whitehead, the «soul» is composed of a series of «presiding» or «dominant» occasions in our bodies; he supposes that these «dominant occasions» occur in or about the brain so
as to receive from the brain a peculiarly - focussed «report» of
bodily experience, not available to any other occasion.
We find accordingly that
as ascetic saints have grown older, and directors of conscience more
experienced, they usually have shown a tendency to lay less stress on special
bodily mortifications.
By this, process - thought (
as expounded by Whitehead) means that there is given to us, in our
experience at all levels (including our «
bodily»
as well
as our intellectual awareness), the sense of a variety of relationships which have played upon us and brought our
experience to us in the particular way in which in fact it has been brought.
These subordinate «living persons,» he goes on to tell us, are «threads of inheritance of lesser intensity of
experience than the dominant one, threads more closely bound to the reiterative aims of the body» —
as in
bodily habits.
This can also by all means be regarded
as ensuing in the interest of a more inclusive analysis of the human being,
as an opportunity for the theoretical comprehension of the so - called «primitive»
experiences which even human beings have — and indeed to a large extent in every case —
experiences which,
as a rule, reach the level of consciousness only, for example, in a dull
bodily sensation, in the feeling of various degrees of general psychophysical «presence,» etc..
Instead, he portrays human
experience as a process of selective abstraction from an environment within which it is included, and to which it makes natural
bodily reference.
Increasingly, we are learning that our emotional psychology has
as physical roots
as our
bodily health — and how much our
experiences as babies and young children, especially, form a foundation that can either be stable and secure, or predispose us to a susceptibility of lifelong difficulties.
(And, if you used your imagination to understood the last few sentences, you will see how grounding abstract terms such
as force and radius in concrete
bodily experiences, such
as roller skating, can generate new understanding.)
In an article titled «The Weight of a Guilty Conscience: Subjective Body Weight
as an Embodiment of Guilt» in the journal PLOS ONE, Day and Bobocel find evidence that the emotional
experience of guilt can be grounded in subjective
bodily sensation.
Eventually expanding mindful awareness into other domains of personal
experience — such
as voluntary control over breathing, thoughts, memories, future projections, smells, sounds, sensations,
bodily experiences, emotions, strengths, clinging, and craving.
As reproductive hormone levels drop off, women
experience drastic
bodily changes, like vaginal dryness, decrease in libido, and loss of bone density.
Many of our moods, daily
bodily rhythms (including sleep - wake cycles), and
experiences of stress and pain have serotonin included
as a factor in their occurrence.
Sexuality and Fertility Awareness (FA) education
as part of «body literacy» is a core area of Tathapi's work, involving not only
bodily experience of the reproductive system but also the socio - cultural and political
experience of women's health.
That's why symptoms of leaky gut can be so confusing and frustrating,
as you can
experience symptoms crossing
bodily system borders.
In this book, of course, I wanted Wavy to have
bodily sovereignty because so many of the adults in her life are a total mess emotionally and psychologically.My views did not necessarily change because I have occasionally seen television reports of some 19 year old male being charged and sentenced to a life
as a registered sex offender with a 15 year old girl that looked very «worldly wise» and «
experienced.»
Dogs who
experience involuntary
bodily functions, such
as excessive drooling or diarrhea, are presumably more distressed than dogs without such indications.
These are techniques that shape
bodily experience of time and space, taking the human body
as a target of power.
Other examples of performative work explore the sensate aspects of
bodily experience,
as Ann Hamilton does in her intimately scaled videos of body parts.
Large - scale art was historically associated with an immersive,
bodily experience that instilled sensations of awe and wonder in the viewer, known
as the sublime.
Hollowell discusses her upbringing and education in California, her art historical influences,
as well
as painting from her own
bodily experiences.
Toward the end of the video, however, the consideration of the body
as an object of desire shifts to a soothsaying of
bodily experience after death.
Still cherished the central truth of painting
as a
bodily act and
experience rather than an idea.
However, Overby's work quickly diverged from those
experiences and developed into a more psychological and narrative attitude that saw domestic space and architecture
as metaphorical extensions of
bodily decay, and that lead the artist to refer to his practice
as «Baroque Minimalism».
This is a show full of incredibly serious ideas, and
as a woman prone to having serious ideas of my own, I was extremely moved to
experience a show that connected with my internal reality rather than forcing the focus,
as always, to the considerations of my
bodily form.
Graham's performances of the 1970s and his architectural pavilions of the 1980s to the present, with their kaleidoscopic refraction of
bodily experience, demonstrate his interest in revealing the private self
as part of a social, public context.
A line, a mark, that isn't hard - edged, that comes from a
bodily movement such
as a gesture, is personalised: it's a felt, psychological
experience.
Working directly from life also allowed him to evade academic solutions to depicting the world, instead paying attention to the complex nature of our seeing; how we map the world
as we turn our head and our eyes... the kinesthetic rhythms that animate his landscapes and portraits, which also knead the hanging and splayed bodies of dead animals, suggest the
bodily experience of dance and song, especially the plaintive cry of the human voice.
The
experience is extraordinary,
as if they compress and release movement individually and together, to circulate my own movement within them always outwards — not only from the paintings into the gallery but also from the gallery into an always potentially broader discussion, and material
experience, of
bodily - felt space.
Recently his sculptural installations have made use of domestic materials and associations such
as shea butter and black soap, with his work often referencing
bodily experience, and the effect of space and atmosphere upon psychology and emotion.
What is lost
as our daily
experience becomes less
bodily lived and more viewed
as an image?
The artworks presented in this exhibition incite multi-disciplinary discussions and interrogations with diverse readings, involving further forms of awareness and themes — from the significance of
experience as a shaper of memory, captured by Veronika Pausova, Cynthia Gutiérrez, Barb Smith and Megan Pahmier, to the relationship between
bodily movement and spatial perception,
as seen in Mario Navarro, Francisco Ugarte, Adrián S. Bará and Javier M. Rodríguez's work.
In his most recent solo exhibition, the New York - based Lithuanian artist presented motion both
as a real - time
experience and
as an imprint of
bodily gesture on a surface.
Looking up to view Hombre Colgado Boca, 2001, influenced by Degas's Miss Lala at the Cirque Fernando, 1879, or engaging with the smaller than life - size figures in Piggyback (Chinese Down), the viewer
experiences the works
bodily as well
as visually.