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Catttt Posted 11 years ago
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outside in and inside out
According to my understanding endoscopies and colonoscopies both present only "inside out" images of the subject. But, why the text says "outside in and inside out"? Maybe the writer is referring to the process of entering the endoscopic devices from outside to the inside of the subject?
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Mona Hatoum views herself literally from the outside in and inside out, through the videoed coloscopies and endoscopies which penetrate her insides in her 1994 work Corps étranger. The viewer enters a cylindrical viewingchamber to gaze down at the floor and follows a dizzying succulent-seeming journey through her interior channels, accompanied by the sound of her heartbeat and breathing, so close that it merges with one’s own. In exposing to her own objective stance and to the viewer the substance of which she is a part, both intimate body and foreign object, she invites an identification between artist and viewer – we all possess bodies and brains about which we feel a squeamish mixture of intellectual curiosity and felt possessiveness – and that boundary is blurred too.
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Mona Hatoum views herself literally from the outside in and inside out, through the videoed coloscopies and endoscopies which penetrate her insides in her 1994 work Corps étranger. The viewer enters a cylindrical viewingchamber to gaze down at the floor and follows a dizzying succulent-seeming journey through her interior channels, accompanied by the sound of her heartbeat and breathing, so close that it merges with one’s own. In exposing to her own objective stance and to the viewer the substance of which she is a part, both intimate body and foreign object, she invites an identification between artist and viewer – we all possess bodies and brains about which we feel a squeamish mixture of intellectual curiosity and felt possessiveness – and that boundary is blurred too.
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red apple But, why the text says "outside in and inside out"? Maybe the writer is referring to the process of entering the endoscopic devices from outside to the inside of the subject? e.
- red apple But, why the text says "outside in and inside out"?
- Maybe the writer is referring to the process of entering the endoscopic devices from outside to the inside of the subject?
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- perceives it from an overview) when she creates it.
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red appleBut, why the text says "outside in and inside out"? Maybe the writer is referring to the process of entering the endoscopic devices from outside to the inside of the subject?I think that the writer means that the endoscope views from the 'inside', but that the artist is 'outside' the work (i.e. perceives it from an overview) when she creates it.
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And does "from the outside in" mean "from outside to inside" or "from the outside that is placed inside"?
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red appleAnd does "from the outside in" mean "from outside to inside"?Yes.
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