ABSTRACT
In 2011, the Icelandic composer and singer Bjork released the media composite Biophilia – a project consisting of a studio album, music videos, lyrics, a film, a website with a teaching portal, apps, and tutorial videos. The official videos all feature the singer's body as seen either from the outside or from within (via computer animation). In the videos as well as the lyrics, geological processes and emotional processes are symbolically intertwined as the singer continuously touches, rearranges, and allows her body to merge with tectonic plates, crystals, or volcanos. Along with a number of other artists, however, Bjork investigates the relationship between representational, emotional, and natural processes on the scale of the human body by taking as a point of departure how relations are experienced as immediate interaction and emotional responses. Bjork centers on the experience of being a porous body and thematizes the emotional dynamics and cost of interconnectedness.
