Regarding oneself, we carry out an event-based narrative like a written script while describing the status of an individual escaping from one’s self-consciousness as the core event. We set out to explore the possibility of such a practice in formulating a naturalistic life experience.
Through the identity of being a female, I utilized the physiological sensitivity towards time and life perception to steer my self-being against the current of a naturalistic life path.
The content of this work, “Defiance in Nude” consists of five chapters which are “Control of Birth”, “The Identity of Clothes”, “Incremental Elongation of Time”, “Physiological Dominance”, and “The Birth of Consciousness”.
Narrative Entity - Defiance in Nude
“Control of Birth”
For the birth of a life, it is a symbol of time controlled solely by the physiological mechanisms of the mother. I will explore an interactive relationship between time and the control of birth. If the act of controlling one's own birth is continuously repeated, then is this repeatedly born individual constantly being reconstructed and deconstructed, or is it continuously expanding? I want to change my imagination of the world through my own consciousness. Is this an attempt to find a way to fully control one's own life through the process of individual consciousness being born?
“The Identity of Clothes”
Clothing becomes an interpretation that replaces the physical body's identity and appearance. Wearing clothes, washing clothes, and cleansing the body—these three actions represent the relationship and experiences between clothes and the body. Through constant practice, experiential overlap, and repetition, these actions occur simultaneously. Can this transform the individual as a human from the restructuring of clothing into an object that possesses compressibility and is full of temporal symbolism, thereby altering the relationship between the object and the body? From the beginning of life, is the accumulation and practice of experiences with clothing and the body an attempt to disrupt the established relationships and changes in the manipulation of objects and bodies?
“Incremental Elongation of Time”
Can we obtain evidence of mastering the rights to our bodies by changing their appearance? Is there something on the body that serves as evidence of time, and has it been reattached to the body itself? And this method of overlapping two individual life experiences, allows time to shape the body's appearance in diverse ways, and emphasizes the overlapping and significance of experiential qualities. Attaching this phenomenon to the body allows bodily experiences to overlap, as if reconstructing a life experience once again. This is a method of severing and then overlapping one's experiences to explore uncontrollable physiological experiences. Through this operation of overlapping experiences, can we give ourselves a crafted presentation that suggests a semblance of control over the growth process of life? Does the accumulation of personal experiences by individuals of different genders also suggest a blending of lives? What aspects of the body are reconstructed through the consciousness experiences generated by the essentialization of gender and societal interpretations of female images?
“Physiological Dominance”
Does the control of physiological phenomena also serve as evidence of defiance against 'natural' life experiences? Attempting to observe from the phenomenon that women cannot fully control the likelihood of becoming pregnant through sexual activity, does this generate a fear of giving birth? Shredded cloth becomes a process of self-producing embryos, an alternative communication of life. Does the incomplete embryonic identity—the placenta—initiate a mode of thought about identity transition for women? Is abortion, whether by choice or without autonomy, a form of self-destruction that expresses a desire for self-redemption by rejecting gender essentialism?
“The Birth of Consciousness”
Grey wiped away those experiential symbols deemed feminine, entwining essential materials within itself and detaching from those symbols to become a new consciousness. It is also an attempt by women to depart from their essentialized bodily appearance, giving rise to a new consciousness. Could that, then, be the birth of a new humanity? And the phenomenon formed by the rejection of essentialized physical appearances?
