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.
The Catholic Church teaches that Christ is present in the Eucharist as a causal agent, somehow giving us bodily strength and health, and Catholics» acceptance of that teaching is expressed in the way in which they receive that sacrament, but the doctrine of Christ's
bodily presence in the Eucharist is one with which even Catholics today have difficulty, and it would be unrealistic to make it thecentre of the belief that Christ was the Son of God.
Not exact matches
What this experiment with the world as God's body comes to, finally, is an awareness, both chilling and breathtaking, that we, as worldly,
bodily beings, are
in God's
presence.
From neither
bodily nor congregational habitation do I see miraculous escape, either by comic recognition that will give the church a special knowing at a higher stage of development or by a romantic quest that turns the parish outward into God's undomesticated
presence in the larger context.
If the appearances to the apostles were private manifestations,
in the sense that a casual bystander would have seen nothing: if; that is to say, they were
in the nature of visions rather than of
bodily seeing, this does not imply that these men were not confronted with the Lord's
presence as an external reality.
These earliest testimonies thus stand
in contrast to the Easter stories
in the Gospels, where the empty tomb is a central fact and the appearances of Christ are thought of,
in the light of this, as being
in some cases
bodily: involving touch as well as sight, and including eating
in the
presence of the disciples.
What the Church knows as the descent of Christ into Hell is not, according to Blake's vision, a descent apart from the body, but rather a descent into the very depths of
bodily repression, a descent that is only consummated
in the identification of Jesus» «Satanic Body of Holiness» with the totality of the cosmos, and its consequent
presence as the redemptive fire of passion throughout the whole body of humanity.
There are places where he resorts to the imagery of myth and speaks of Christ as if he were living an unseen life with God
in a heavenly realm above, from which he would descend to appear on the earth at the imminent end - time.38 At other times Paul could speak of the church as the body of Christ, of which the Christian believers formed «the limbs and organs».39 He exhorted the Galatians to «put on Christ as a garment», 40 he said to the Romans, «Let Christ Jesus himself be the armor that you wear», 41 and he told the Galatians how he was in travail until they «took the shape of Christ».42 In various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.&raqu
in a heavenly realm above, from which he would descend to appear on the earth at the imminent end - time.38 At other times Paul could speak of the church as the body of Christ, of which the Christian believers formed «the limbs and organs».39 He exhorted the Galatians to «put on Christ as a garment», 40 he said to the Romans, «Let Christ Jesus himself be the armor that you wear», 41 and he told the Galatians how he was
in travail until they «took the shape of Christ».42 In various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.&raqu
in travail until they «took the shape of Christ».42
In various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.&raqu
In various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling
presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.&raqu
in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives
in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.&raqu
in me; and my present
bodily life is lived by faith
in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.&raqu
in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.»
For this reason, Paul understands man with all his strengths, weaknesses and temptations: «Human nature, the common nature of the whole race of Adam, spoke
in him, acted
in him, with an energetical
presence, with a sort of
bodily fullness, always under the sovereign command of divine grace, but losing none of its real freedom and power because of its subordination.
Either they had this psychological illusion, which would be very natural, or, what is more likely, when they tried to tell of their experience the only way they could tell it was
in words that led others to think they were speaking of the
bodily presence.
Paul actually quotes his opponents
in 2 Cor 10:10: They say, «His letters are weighty and strong, but his
bodily presence is weak, and his speech is of no account» (RSV).
At Corinth, the oral performance of the letter has particular significance to the Pauline apostolate; since Paul's
bodily presence had been deemed weak, Paul establishes a new
presence, that of Paul -
in - the - letter, which, when embodied by the reciter, gave Paul restored visibility
in the community.
So vivid and so powerful was this recovery of the kind of interchange with one another that they had had when Jesus was alive with them that it produced the feeling of his actual
presence with them
in bodily form.
As a historian of performance, I am interested
in how
bodily presence and speech became issues
in Paul's conflict with the Corinthian superapostles
in the 50's CE.
Then they will receive their bodies and arise entire, that is,
in bodily form as the Lord arose, and thus will come into the
presence of God.»
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..
Although a few reports of late onset GBS
in infants whose mothers also expressed GBS
in their breastmilk are described
in the literature, with the standard medical treatment of breastmilk as just some infectious
bodily fluid, no studies are to be found specifically comparing overall GBS infections
in infants to
presence or absence of exclusive human milk feeding.
They were afraid of passing out, throwing up, or getting queasy
in the
presence of all those
bodily fluids.
The sensor sends an electronic signal is the
presence of estrogen and, with further development, could test estrogen levels
in bodily fluids or test waterways for estrogen contamination that might pose a risk to humans and the environment.
May support the immune system
in its defense against toxins, free radicals, bacteria, and other harmful
bodily presences.
In Ally, Antoni pursues her interest in bodily presence, touch, and movemen
In Ally, Antoni pursues her interest
in bodily presence, touch, and movemen
in bodily presence, touch, and movement.
The performative nature of the paintings and the artist's self - awareness on camera recalls Hans Namuth's infamous photographs of Jackson Pollock's dramatic painting process — images that have defined our understanding of his active
bodily presence.18 However,
in Saint Phalle's hands, there is an explicit refusal of the terms of abstraction that Pollock and others of his generation perfected — i.e., the expression of exquisite anguish that could be exorcized by subjective brushwork from the singular, heroic male artist.
Each image
in the series is inscribed with
bodily presence, though no figures are present.
Occasionally his ludic concepts drift into more
bodily, relational challenges, especially
in This Consequence of 2006, that involved the unsettling
presence of a gallery owner or invigilator dressed
in an all - white Adidas tracksuit, with an additional sinister red stain embroidered into the fabric.
While works of Daniel Richter or Wolfgang Tillmans explore the idealized, imaginative space of sexuality, Georg Baselitz stresses the ambiguous
presence of
bodily decay
in his large scale painting Bilddrei from 1991.
Comparison with Bontecou, and the material experimentations, tactility, and
bodily allusions of Eva Hesse — an artist who likely became familiar with Burri through his
presence in New York — demands revision of the emphasis on medical analogies which Burri himself disliked.
In these works,
bodily forms hover between familiarity and an unsettling otherness, between signs of
presence and absence, agency and objectification, as artists find novel ways to question our commonplace codes of subjectivity and to challenge our impulse to identify with the anthropomorphic.
I also see them
in the concepts of the Ichts, these Is
in their
bodily presence sent into the incalculability of time, where their existence performs as a screen for projections, identifications and feelings, being reminded of what Walter Benjamin writes about the I, and especially the I
in the novels of Proust and Kafka: He writes: «When Proust
in his Recherche du temps perdu, and Kafka,
in his diaries, use I, for both of them it is equally transparent, glassy.
Mouthing (the Sentient Limb) looks at the ways
in which our minds are connected to our bodies by presenting a group of artworks that explores sensations relating to physical
presence and returning our attention to
bodily experiences.
David's process of conceiving an image is rooted
in the line and he retains the impulsive and ephemeral nature of drawing as he transitions from sketches on paper to painting, sculpture, and other media often reverting to drawing —
in ways that he refers to as «following instructions
in order to formalize the feeling of
bodily presence and absence, assembling and dissolving
in equal measures.»
They require the
bodily presence of the viewer and a careful kind of looking
in order for the work to make sense.
Any person who is, or who the accused believes is, under the age of 16 years, for the purpose of facilitating the commission of sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, bestiality
in presence of or by a child, indecent acts — exposure to a person under the age of 16, sexual assault, sexual assault with a weapon or causing
bodily harm, aggravated sexual assault or abduction of a person under sixteen, with respect to that person; or
Any person who is, or who the accused believes is, under the age of 16 years, for the purpose of facilitating the commission of an offence of sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, bestiality
in presence of or by a child, indecent acts — exposure to a person under the age of 16, sexual assault, sexual assault with a weapon or causing
bodily harm, aggravated sexual assault or abduction of a person under sixteen, with respect to that person; or
I threatened people with
bodily harm (though never when I was
in their
presence because I was too much of a chicken to do that).
Pressure build - up
in the arteries due to the
presence of plaque restricts the blood flow to
bodily organs and tissues.
The definition of «boobytrap»
in the code is «any concealed or camouflaged device designed to cause great
bodily injury when triggered by an action of any unsuspecting person coming across the device;» on the face of it, it is definitely not clear that a generic «there are traps» sign makes it not a boobytrap (whereas a sign on the trap announcing its
presence probably would).