Book Launch, 23.1.2025, 6 pm, Uferstudios

Shielding offers a collection of conceptual approaches through which bodies, intentionally or involuntarily, become shields. Bodies take on an ambivalent status in the process: they serve as protection or a buffer and express resistance. At the same time, they turn and are turned into weapons when they intervene on the ground and politically, in war, conflicts, and through activism. The contributors address the idea of bodily integrity, both in a material sense and with regard to the symbolic and ethical relations that a body entangles. The book engages with ongoing debates around the re-evaluation of corporeality and embodiment in contemporary socio-political contexts.

3. September 2024, approx. 256 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8394-7280-4
Available in print and as E-book
Download size: ca. 32.48 MB

29,00 Euro

Shielding is the third volume from the publication series Corporeal Matters an on arts-based research, in particular practices and concepts that place the body at the core. It illuminates how the body appears simultaneously as witness, document, and agent in contemporary life, and offers insights into corporeality as the often neglected dimension that cuts through ethics, aesthetics, and politics. The series hosts edited volumes, authored publications, workbooks and other formats from multiple perspectives and fields of practice, grounded in moments of research, encounter and debate, generated in the context of the HZT-Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin. Art Director of the publications series: Ana Lessing Menjibar

Volume 2: The Gaze of the X-Ray – An Archive of Violence
Volume 1: Breathe – Critical Research into the Inequalities of Life

The series is edited by Prof. Dr. Sandra Noeth, Dr. Sandra Umathum, Prof. Janez Janša.