Dialogues & Duets

By Josephine Machon
Source: Flesh and Text , pp 149-157
Publication Date: April 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/9781835950715_24
Language: English

Reviewing her 26-year relationship with the work of Bodies in Flight, since 1999, Machon reflects on the ‘(syn)aesthetics ’ (2011) of the work, from concept through practice to documentation. Beyond physical exhibitions and virtual repositories, she imagines how a Bodies in Flight archive might be retraced through the bodies of those who experienced the work, considering how recall and remembering position the audience as archivists. Drawing on her live(d) experience of DeliverUs, Machon shows how sensual archives take flight once again through a process of attentive recall.

Keywords: (syn)aesthetic ; documentation ; dwelling ; embodied ; experiential ; flesh ; immersive ; intermedial ; sensory ; text

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