Body and performance in the era of virtual communication: the space of the Body in space of the body

Abstract

“Seeing” is a much more complex than a purely physiological act. It involves, among other things, acquired and inherited knowledge that, as tools, will serve us for decoding what is seen, to understand it and to assimilate it. And when I make this distinction between acquired and inherited, I do it regarding the former as a result of subject’s own existence which generates experience and therefore a personal way of "Seeing to the world", unlike the inherited knowledge ("Seeing the world") which is imposed by the culture that creates raises the subject (or should I say that co-raises it?). But "seeing the world" is not the same as "seeing to the world." To make this distinction, we must develop in this text the premise of "Seeing is Creating and Creating is Believing", which will then be useful to think that: if what we see is not what it is but what we believe it is, what happens then to the devices of visual representation of "reality" and to those with the power to disseminate those devices? But new technologies such as the Internet and cellular telephony have led to a break in this concept, traversing the notions of context and paratext, expanding the creative act of "seeing" and thus generating new realities from a same observed event. And the body in all this will not be left out. We will think on what happens in Performance as an artistic discipline, where the body, which was traditionally support for the work, now faces these new ways of seeing and creating it.