Who is in Pain? The transforming of symbol in performances of Marina Abramović

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Notes

¹‘Suppose I feel a pain, which on the evidence of pain alone, e.g. with closed eyes, I should call a pain in my left hand. Someone asks me to touch the painful spot with my right hand. I do so and looking around perceive that I am touching my neighbour's hand.’ (69-70)

²In the theory of Bennett (2005: 34), affect is not characteristic of ‘emotion or expression of individual characters’, but is simply generated as being ‘subject to sensation’.