I wrote about the history of sensory deprivation and the experiments on it which led me to sense of flotation and intention to visualisation of flotation, a movement. In addition to my previous researches I want to write about Boccionis' approach to Futurism and dynamism which I believe might be relatable and assistive to my researches and also briefly about "body without organs" since I try to visualise it by deforming the body figure and capturing a motion.

  Umberto Boccioni, an Italian painter and sculptor who helped shaping the revolutionary aesthetics of the Futurism movement, he guided the artist with his approach to the dynamism of form and deconstruction of solid mass even after his death. In his book on futurism, "Plastic Dynamism", he writes; "Between real and ideal forms, between new forms (Impressionist) and traditional forms (Greek) we have discovered a form which is variable, evolutionary, and quite different from any other concepts which have existed up till now. We Futurists have discovered form in movement, and the movement of form. Only through this dual conception of form can we give a hint of plastic life in our work, without having extracted and removed it from its living environment, which would mean arresting its motion.

  In sculpture, therefore, we are not necessarily looking for pure form, but for pure plastic rhythm, not the construction of an object, but the construction of an object’s action. We have abolished pyramidal architecture to arrive at spiral architecture. A body in movement, therefore, is not simply an immobile body subsequently set in motion, but a truly mobile object, which is a reality quite new and original." 

  Boccioni usually chose animate subjects. However, following the ideas of Henri Bergson, he believed that inanimate objects had inherent movement. “Development of a Bottle in Space” was his first publicly exhibited sculpture.By using a firm object, Boccioni could show the energy of the bottle, which seems to spiral out of its own original form.

  

Development of a Bottle in Space, Umberto Boccioni

When you will have made him a body without organs,

then you will have delivered him from all his automatic reactions

and restored him to his true freedom.

Antonin Artaud

  Body without organs is created by Antonin Artaud and conceptually improved by Giles Deleuze. According to Artaud, our bodies are limitations of mass and these limitations are assigned to us at birth. Just as we do not try to walk on our knees we also do not try to walk whilst our eyes are closed. It is easier for human to do as they were told, or used to. It is very similar to Pavlovs’ conditioned response. We are taught how to use our organs, their functions and locations are predefined. So Artaud suggested that the organism is not life, on the contrary, it is prison to life. So when he is talking about body without organs he is talking about freeing ones self from the body and the limits of it.