Éléments d’anthropo-logique : à propos des corpographies de Karl Lakolak

• Main Author: Dominique Chevé
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Pléiade (EA 7338) 2009-05-01
• Series: Itinéraires
• Subjects: anthropo-logic; body; bioculturality; miscegenation; collection; ritual
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/itineraires/398

Faced with Karl Lakolak’s Érographies d’incorporelles, we ask what is left of the bodies thus ex-posed and on whose skins he writes: nothing, except precisely the infinité variation on the very construction of bodies, in a singular saraband. Anthropologists can only turn to their poor little notions, muddled and ugly, of “bio-socio-culturality” of bodies. Through this kaleidoscope of variegated bodies, the body itself seems to vanish, to fade away at the work’s surface. Yet, bodies continue in their peculiar opaqueness, beyond the excess of chromatic violence: bodies that maintain their shapes beyond the fragmentation of collages and cut-ups; bodies, rough-hewn, naked, dense beyond their make-ups, disguises, and other markings, beyond the layers, the traces, the masks and the reliefs or the scrambling and costuming—paint, fabric, or plastic. In short, these bodies assert their sexe(s) and their desire(s), their lives, beyond gender hybridization and death, perhaps because, like death, desire gives shape, takes shape, is a factor of shape. Lakolak’s work puts man at the edge of the abyss in Corporeal Vanities that refer to the intertwining of all rituals as well as to the miscegenation of forces, shapes, humors, and materials: Ecce homo in the bodies’ multiple singularities.