Of
the
thesis
entitled: The
Interval:
in-between
unmaking
and
remaking
the
body
Abstract:
By
its
individual
terms,
we
can
think
of
a
body
in
two
coincident
ways
that
meet
it
in
the
middle:
from
the
familiar
inside-out
and
from
the
less
familiar
outside-in.
To
proceed
from
the
middle
of
things
conceives of
a
body
always
already
extended
into
the
world,
able
to
affect
and
be
affected
by
other
bodies
that
share
its
environment.
That
is
to
say,
a
body
is
both
a
self-sustaining
composition
of
related
parts
and
a composition
of
the
environmental
forces
that
assemble
its
relations
as
a
body.
In
contrast
to
a
body’s
eminently
apparent
material
composition,
its
immaterial
movements
are
observable
only
in
dynamic
continuity
and
shifting
relations
among
other
bodies.
Elusive
as
movements
may
be, the
impact
they
carry
are
felt
in
a
body
as
intensive
force
or
sensation,
bringing
individual
bodies
into
immediate
relational
movement.
Intensively
connected,
bodies
shift
each
other’s
movements
in
time
and space
by
their
affective
powers.
Opening
an
inquiry
into
the
interval,
the
moment
of
encounter,
enters
into
the
immediacy
of
relational
movement
between
bodies—the
pre-personal
gap
between
stable
forms in
which
a
body
is
reconstituted
in
a
state
of
instability.s
The
body’s
dynamic
plasticity
is
first
presented
in
three
sets
of
pictures
that
isolate
its
material
corporeality
and
immanent
movements
before
reassembly
as
living
bodies
caught
in
the
middle
of
intense
physical negotiation.
The
liminal
body
is
then
opened
in
detail
along
its
constituting
lines
and
its
processes
of
framing,
registering,
and
moving
through
the
world
by
which
it
returns
to
itself
innately.
A
critical
analysis
of
paintings
by
Francis
Bacon
reveals
the
methodical
practice
and
the
intensity
of
forces
required
to
unmake
and
remake
bodies
in
paint,
while
Antonin
Artaud
practices
his
method
on
the masses
via
the
production
of
bodily
performance.
A
final
return
to
the
individual
body
calls
on
the
imperative
to
take
up
movement
in
counterpoint
to
other
bodies
as
both
productive
experimentation
and
the reciprocation
of
power
at
the
body’s
shifting
limits.
The
examining
committee
is
as
follows:
Supervisor:
Committee Members:
Dereck Revington, University of Waterloo
Donald McKay, University of Waterloo
Philip
Beesley,
University of
Waterloo
External Reader:
Scott Sorli
The
committee
has
been
approved
as
authorized
by
the
Graduate
Studies
Committee.
The
Defence
Examination
will
take
place:
Monday
December
19,
2016
5:30
PM
ARC
Loft
Gallery
A
copy
of
the
thesis
is
available
for
perusal
in
ARC
2106A.