Body and time in contemporary art: the political reinvention of the body as a duration

Abstract

In the beginning there were approximations, then men had the sacred fire that demigods (half human men, human half gods) granted them, not without innumerable sacrifices, then only the profane fire remained, desecrated fire, which they lit to commemorate their pristine origin. Finally the memory remained, imagining intuition, since then they have the arts that still ignite, for some brief moment, the sacred fire of the imagination. This essay projects some meditative incursions into the infinite groove of time that is duration - meat and life of performance arts. This brief essay, risks and experiences around, and from the contours, proliferating and evanescent that make up the plot between body, time, art, performance, politics. This plot allows us to watch over and unveil the possibility of redoing the questions of contemporary art and, perhaps with it, reorienting the possible answers or at least reorienting the quest, which in these times is not a small matter.