PERFORMANCEThe Performing Body signals
Anonymous thoughts about the performing body.
The body as object rather than subject.
The interior of the body secondary to its exterior.
What it costs to live inside something that is primarily for other people.
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The performing body is the experience of existing primarily in relation to others' perception — the body as the thing that is seen, evaluated, desired or not, consumed, commented on. The interior of the body — the experience of living inside it — becomes secondary to its exterior. You manage the surface for an audience that is always there.
Anonymous thoughts about the performing body posted here are from people who have lived this way — the honest account of inhabiting something that belongs, in some cultural sense, to everyone but you.