‘몸-쓰기’와 ‘접촉’의 미학 : 낭시 『코르푸스』를 통한 <신체하는 안무> 고찰

Abstract

This article reads Jean-Luc Nancy's Corpus and examines the ‘writing of the body' inDecoding Movement, an interdisciplinary art work by Eun-Jin Choi, from theperspective of Nancy's Corpus theory. The main themes of the article are writing of thebody, touching, and post-deconstructive realism. Jean-Luc Nancy's discourse of ‘writing of the body' is to find in the interdisciplinaryartistic formation in Decoding Movement. Nancy's writing of the body is accomplishedin the way of ‘excription', that is ‘writing-outside' toward the others and the self. Theperformers in Decoding Movement ‘write' their own body-movements at their verymoments through their own voices. This writing is toward the audience and at the sametime also to the performers themselves. These ‘adressing’ and ‘sending’ of the body make ‘touch’. In the writing of the body,touch occurs and in the touch, the bodies are coming and going. ‘Coming and going' ofthe bodies can make the possibility of the community in the meaning of Jean-LucNancy: Every body remains as singular and at the same time becomes plural with theothers through being with the others in the touch, the writing of the body. This process can be considered as post-deconstructive realist way. DecodingMovement doesn't make any plot or episode with bodies through the expression, asmany classical dance artworks do. In Decoding Movement the body itself is addressed. The dancers/performers write their own bodies at the lots of very tiny moments, inwhich the fragmentation occurs. Writing of the body is the fragmented writing, whichexcribes the senses of the body at every moment. This deconstructive aspect of thewriting of the body goes beyond the deconstructivism at the same time, while itsucceeds in addressing the one's reality to the others and to the one oneself. It is becausethe body is corpus-ego, not because ego possesses the body, that writing of the bodycan address the reality. Decoding Movement takes this way of excription and touch inthe post-deconstructive realist mode in the sense of Nancy's discourse of corpus.