Fitting into yourself from Leena Riethmuller on Vimeo.
My work investigates contextual and subjective bodily experiences that occur in response to dominant ideals for the body. My artistic outcomes take the form of live performance, video and sculpture. My interest lies in observing and experimenting with mainstream’s engagement with the body in the areas of popular culture, hygiene and medical practices, bodily maintenance and beauty trends and the influence of religion and philosophical discoveries. I have limited the majority of my research to the place and time in which my body lives, a time where the body is particularly individualised and capitalised upon. Through my work I aim to critique bodily engagement and look at new or alternative methods to engage with the body. I have been influenced by the work of body philosopher, Richard Shusterman, who believes that by connecting with and understanding ourselves better, we can connect with and understand others better too.
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