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Item We are not our faces [abstract](The Body Project, 2008) Wedel, Valerie A.; Body Project (1st : 2008 : Columbia, Missouri)One of the themes prevalent in my work is that the notion of "self" as separate from "other" is a mental construct. According to our senses we are separate and on those levels, we are. However, if we examine ourselves on a subatomic level, for example, we learn that our bodies are in continuous flux. On a subatomic level, there is no way to clearly differentiate between our bodies and the surrounding air. Many spiritual traditions, such as Zen Buddhism, make similar claims. Thich Nhat Hanh (1997), Zen monk and author, addresses this in terms of time: One day as I was about to step on a dry leaf, I saw the leaf in the ultimate dimension. I saw that it was not really dead, but that it was merging with the moist soil in order to appear on the tree the following spring in another form. (p. 151) According to this teaching, we must recognize that on some levels, such as on the subatomic and metaphysical levels, we are not separate from one another.Item The body and photography : examinations on the being [abstract](The Body Project, 2008) Jurado, Leonor; Body Project (1st : 2008 : Columbia, Missouri)As a visual artist my choice of mediums in my research are the body through photography. My photographs show an elusive, immaterial reality that attempt to reach an understanding of the metaphysical world. ... My images show the remaining or what amounts to be the absence of the physical and the presence of energy. In my images there is an ontological impulse that is described in the abstracted body.Item Intervention/interruption [abstract](The Body Project, 2008) Higgins, J. J.; Body Project (1st : 2008 : Columbia, Missouri)How does the body exist in time and in place? How is it that we recognize ourselves through memory or experience? And in defining ourselves as a presence in that space, how do we know where we are? ... For the project/proposal/performance/intervention I have an interactive installation that would invite/expect the audience to interact or intervene within its space. This piece, a clear vinyl tent would become, simultaneously, both observation and play space. By design, the piece operates as a reverse panopticon. The audience could enter, sit inside and feel insulated from the outside environment, all the while becoming the point of observation -- for the present audience and --from an overhead camera, the disassociated audience viewing the projected overhead image from a monitor in another location. Awareness of viewing the disassociated spaces allows the audience to consider the implications of a comprehending the affects of the intervention and the way we often elevate received data to the status of information, making evaluations without understanding the whole.