Une perte d'identité ?

En fouillant les notes prises alors que j'étudiais en Angleterre, je retrouve cet extrait concernant un livre sur le Body Art : Lea Vergine, Il corpo como linguagio (La Body-Art e storie simili), Milano, Gianpaolo Prearo Editore, 1974.
Je ne sais plus guère comment j'avais procédé pour ces notes, mais en général je prélève des phrases du texte original.
Ma "typographie" d'alors manque de rigueur : pas de majuscules en début de phrase…

"Body art : always involves, a loss of personal identity.

basis of body art : unsatisfied need for love. for what one is and for what one wants to be

"primary love"

aggressivity

the accent is placed on nature

an attempt to eliminate culture

body artists : persons full of apprehension… but also acute observers authentic cruel and painful experiences. "those who are in pain will tell you that they have the right to be taken seriously"

suffering is not transformed into mysticism

once the productive forces of the unconscious have been liberated, what follows is a continuous and hysterical dramatization of the conflicts between desire and defense, license and prohibition… voyeurism and exhibition…

if we were interested in relation to perversion, we could talk about fetishism, transvestism, voyeurism, kleptomania, paidophilia, necrophilia, sado-masochism, rupophobia, scatophagia.

aspects of the work connected to dissociation, melancholy, delirium… persecution manias

an attempt to deal with something repressed

"symptology is always one of the problems of art" (Gilles Deleuze)

the feeling of the "diary" becomes fundamental (souvenir etc…)

one's own body as a love object

Gina Pane : always situations connected to antecedents or memories that are symbolically re-invoked in each of her pieces ; comingclose to the edges of the pathological… finally reaching trauma.

the transvestite. a human being who transcends the limits of his own body and who becomes what he desires to be. and not what his society would force him to be.

the artist[s] shift their problem from the subject to the object

one of the major function of the art illusion is the protective function

Function of catharsis

we can no more be content with the idea that repressed emotions lose their ascendancy upon psychic life once they have found an outlet.

it seems more reasonable to believe the Aristotle's phenomenon of purification allows the self to re-established a control that has been endangered by censured instinctual needs.

double pleasure : — discharge of energy
— reinforcement of control has been in fact accomplished.

The aesthetic situation allows a more intense reaction to many individuals."
(Lea Vergine, Il corpo como linguagio (La Body-Art e storie simili), Milano, Gianpaolo Prearo Editore, 1974)

La question de la perte d'identité personnelle, en lien avec, dans le contexte d'une pratique artistique, me semble très intéressante.
Mon expérience n'est pas celle d'un body-artist, mais j'ai souvent ce sentiment de mise en danger identitaire, due peut être à la surexploitation des questionnements, à l'élaboration pour la communication avec autrui, à la nécessaire exhibition / exposition de soi.

Sur le Body Art, cf. ici.
Voir aussi une courte biographie de Lea Vergine, ici (en italien, mais on comprend presque tout).