“Protasis: on becoming a body”

タイトル: 導入; 身体として生成すること

Joana Chicau

Greek proposition, literally, a stretching forward, equivalent to “pro”+ “tásis” a stretching;

ギリシャ的命題; 文字通り、身体を差し出す、「Pro + tasis」に等しい。

In grammar construction it is the clause expressing the condition in a conditional sentence, in English usually beginning with “if” [@RandomHouseDictionary].

“The body is always in a state of becoming , as its nature, the world and the universe. Drawing on the mind-body philosophies of Hiroshi Ichikawa and Yasuo Yuase, Japanese theorist Shinegori Nagatomo (1992) describes the process of perpetual becoming of the body, as that of attunement. Here, the body - any body, human, plant, animal - is always already an interaction. It is always modified through interaction with the living ambiance, which is the totality of shaped things, beings and phenomena. The body is thus neither a stable concept nor a closed concept.” _{at Lushetich, N. (2016). Interdisciplinary performance. London: Palgrave Macmillan.}