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Erstellt: 19. Mai 2025

Workshop with Marlon Miguel: "Lygia Clark and the Phantasmatic of the Body", 26 May 2025

Through relational objects, sensory provocations, and collective rituals, Clark’s work erodes the distinction between self and other, rendering the unconscious tangible and transforming intersubjectivity into both an aesthetic and political proposition.

At the heart of our exploration is Clark’s radical dismantling of authorship and tactile norms—exemplified in Baba Antropofágica (1973), where saliva, breath, and bodily entanglement become acts of resistance against capitalist alienation. Can her notion of the "collective body" propose new forms of coexistence? We will pursue this question through somatic exercises, theoretical discussions, and close engagement with Clark’s late proposition of The Structuration of the Self . The workshop culminates in a critical dialogue with Frantz Fanon’s late writings on psychosomatic disorders, interrogating how colonial violence is somatized—and how Clark’s practice might offer strategies for its undoing.