The effect is disorientating: instead of just looking at the work of art, you are enveloped by it.For Mr Neto, art has to be sensual and to interact with its audience in an intimate, bodily way.
This leads to philosophical questions in each field about the extent to which dance, music and theater are: 1) communicative ("for" an audience), 2) experiential in a bodily way, 3) connected to a particular performative context, or 4) improvisational.
"They're funny, in a very bodily way," Davidson concluded.
I think of sculpture in a bodily way.
But I think it is the love between the two men, homoerotic but not in a bodily way, that fuels their relationship and has each remain a devotee of the other despite abundant opposition from family and supporters; it is this love that enables them to withstand the withering disappointments they each serve up to one another.
These are only a few examples of the many ways bodily awareness can be distorted (see Vignemont, 2010 for a comprehensive list of bodily disorders).
The various ways bodily experiences are affected by visual information are too many to be listed here.
It was also the subject of many practical manuals in the arts; there is, for instance, an extensive seventeenth-century literature stemming from discussions in the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture about how to depict facial expressions and bodily gestures in ways that would allow the deciphering of emotional states.
Fasting or dieting, which change one's bodily functioning in ways that also affect the contents and intensity of dreaming.
Michel Foucault's notion of turning one's self itself into a work of art thus gets an unexpected confirmation: I buy my bodily fitness by way of visiting fitness clubs; I buy my spiritual enlightenment by way of enrolling in the courses on transcendental meditation; I buy my public persona by way of going to the restaurants visited by people I want to be associated with.
