I wrote about Futurism and the body without organs concept. To summarise and find the similarities between two, body without organs, a body without an image, a deeper reality underlying some well-formed whole constructed from fully functioning parts. Body without organs is against the predefined locations and functions of organs, it is against the organism. The body is dynamic, not static, it changes all the time. They are not objects but a mass of intensities that are always in resonance. The Body without Organs is often compared to an egg.  “That is why we treat the BwO as the full egg before the extension of the organism and the organisation of the organs, before the formation of the strata; as the intense egg defined by axes and vectors, gradients and thresholds, by dynamic tendencies involving energy transformation and kinematic movements involving group displacement, by migrations: all independent of accessory forms because the organs appear to function here only as pure intensities.” The Body without Organs is a shell. Once you remove the insides then the shell can function with a new utility.

  Futurism, impatient with immobility and nostalgia, and characterised by a leap forward towards the future, was influenced by the radical changes on the physical and sensory levels of the new century. A key focus of the Futurists was the depiction of movement, or dynamism. The group developed a number of novel techniques to express speed and motion, including blurring, repetition, and the use of lines of force. 

  My starting point was sleep deprivation and its impacts on me which led me to issues such as sensory deprivation, flotation, mobility, expansion of the body, visualisation of a movement, vision in motion. I want to deepen my research on these notions and integrate them to my work.

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