ABSTRACT
I take as my subject the Renaissance body – cut up and cut off – amputated and amnesiac. In short, this is a project on loss. Yet it is less concerned with absence than with the illusion of presence or permanence, less with the inevitability of death than with the probability of being forgotten. It is, rather, a project on the anxieties of loss. It is about recuperative narratives and other crutches.
