Possibilities of Relation
2023
“Levinas describes the face not only being what we recognise as the face and its appendages, but in the body’s gestures. Any movement of the body is a facial expression, trying to convey information of satisfaction or displeasure. The Other is mysterious because the Other is not-me. The face of the Other stands in for the Other’s inaccessible whole, reminding me of my identity, my separateness, reminding me of the presence of that which is not-me, the Void in my presence, the gap at the end of the signifying chain, that which is impossible to know. In this regard Holmes describes the glory hole as perhaps not only an avenue for faceless sexual interaction as it is originally thought of, but as a lens to see the face through. If a body is standing on the other side it is already looking at the Other. It is, in respect, the movement of the body and its assemblages of gestures that honour its nakedness, and in turn see the Other in a desire for being seen. I am looking at you, looking at me, looking at you —“
2023
“Levinas describes the face not only being what we recognise as the face and its appendages, but in the body’s gestures. Any movement of the body is a facial expression, trying to convey information of satisfaction or displeasure. The Other is mysterious because the Other is not-me. The face of the Other stands in for the Other’s inaccessible whole, reminding me of my identity, my separateness, reminding me of the presence of that which is not-me, the Void in my presence, the gap at the end of the signifying chain, that which is impossible to know. In this regard Holmes describes the glory hole as perhaps not only an avenue for faceless sexual interaction as it is originally thought of, but as a lens to see the face through. If a body is standing on the other side it is already looking at the Other. It is, in respect, the movement of the body and its assemblages of gestures that honour its nakedness, and in turn see the Other in a desire for being seen. I am looking at you, looking at me, looking at you —“
Honours graduate work at the Victorian College of the Arts with accompanying dissertation.
