Abstract
In this chapter, I intend to advance a way of conceptualizing living bodies from the perspective of a practitioner. The proposed concepts under pinned by my embodied memories are from lived experiences informed by movements derived from my body in its process of change. These memories neurologically construct a kind of virtual body, which is holo- graphically projected as spatialized memory, helping my living body to write and rewrite itself. To articulate my thoughts to the reader, the reader will be introduced to new terms of reference which are part of a wider conceptual structure I call ‘the return beat’ (Taiwo, 1998: 157). This concept is defined as a cyclical experience of rhythm whose intervals feel like it magnetically returns to the centre of someone’s physical journal.
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Taiwo, O. (2009). The Physical Journal: The Living Body that Writes and Rewrites Itself. In: Broadhurst, S., Machon, J. (eds) Sensualities/Textualities and Technologies. Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230248533_9
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