Face to Facelessness: Imagined Intimacies and Socially Distant Desires
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This paper revisits a performance titled Falling in Love Again - and which was first performed 2014 as part of series works I created questioning relational intimacy proximity public space. During Falling participants were invited to explore space with the intention anonymously falling love strangers. The details these encounters shared me leader piece via mobile phone text messages, but never subjects participants' desires.  Understanding dynamics very different experience how understand them 2021. Covid-19 pandemic, social distancing, two periods lockdown has drastically influenced relationality physically being world others is performed.  concerned both intimate proximate bodies during that understood it then, and, consequence, we might now.Critical points departure for include art historian Grant Kester's writing on conversational practices his framing dialogic through use Jeffrey T. Nealon's Alterity Politics: Ethics Performative Subjectivity (1998).  Models 'dialogical' 'responsibility', situated by Mikhail Bakhtin Emmanuel Levinas respectively (Nealon, 1998, cited Kester, 2004, 118) are used this article frame rethinking ethics face contact physical proximity, maintain distance from one another, connected only our digital devices imaginations.  voyeuristic Sophie Calle Vito Acconci converge theatre makers Forced Entertainment's 'writing over' place (Kaye, 2000) imaginary connectivity.  geographer Doreen Massey supports Massey's thoughts fictional poetics interactions 'stories so far' (Massey, 2005).  Ultimately asks what happens when required imagine distant ways depositories
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عنوان ژورنال: Body, space & technology journal
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1470-9120']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/bst.8029