a short meditation on the vulnerability of the body

Inspired by feminist philosophical thoughts of corporeal vulnerability, this visual meditation reflects on the notion of the body as inherently vulnerable.

I am interested to examine vulnerability: what does it really mean? How does bodily vulnerability manifest itself? Paraphrasing Judith Butler, if we recognise that we are all in someway inherently vulnerable, how does this recognition forge a reconsideration of bodies, of the resistance of bodies and of taking care of our own and other bodies?

Movement, filming and editing: Wilhelmina Ojanen

Music and composition: Andrew Marriott

Made for Pirkanmaan Tanssin Aluekeskus