What is the indigenous body?
Posted by DIUMa on October 28, 2007
[in preparation for its participation in the Artivistic conference, the Think Tank engaged the question put forward by Artivistic, “what is indigenous?”
This post is an accumulation of notes, sketches and responces generated between the two directors, DIUM/a and DIIs. This project will continue to receive updated submissions to this post. Please continue to revisit our progress.]
The work of two Think Tank directors, DIUM/a and DII-S, respond with this question.
What is the indigenous body?
The indigenous is rooted in the body. It is a pulse. It is a connection. The body assimilates identity as it shows up in the world. The indigenous body cannot be seen, and it certainly cannot be reproduced. The indigenous slumbers as it once did in day zero.
Day zero is prior to the world as a mediated experience. Day Zero proliferates. It has many many fingers—twenty plus. Its face revokes the notion of reducibility. Face becoming faceless or facelessness becoming a face is the paradoxical equation of the indigenous body at Day Zero.
The actual body the biological material body is a prosthetic of the indigenous body. The prosthetic body, as is the indigenous body, is modular; that is, its essence is one defined by connectivity.
What is physical of the indigenous body is its resonance as a waveform within a material world.* And as a waveform the indigenous body transgresses temporality.
*The indigenous body transmits and receives. Transmits and receives. It never negates. It transmits and receives…
statement submitted by:
DIUM/a the Director for the Investigation of UnMentionable and the for the investigation of authenticity
DII-S, the Director for the Investigation of Inter-Subjectivity
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