Fractures of the Flesh
When does a woman first become aware of her own body? Is it the moment she feels the first gaze upon her, or the moment the first wound splits open? The body is a battlefield where power, desire and trauma intertwine. Spanning animation, documentary and narrative features, Fissures of the Body looks at how the female body becomes a vessel for violence and discipline — and how, from within those fissures, it tries to speak, to write and to remake itself. Together, these works reveal that wounds are never merely physical; they are symbolic and psychic as well. From everyday scars to the social gaze, from trauma inherited across generations to the dismemberment performed by the cosmetic-surgery industry, the female body is continually cut, filled and consumed — and yet, in that same process, it shows the resilience of the survivor and a faint, stubborn resistance.
Authorb.l!nk 總編輯李姿穎編輯，寫作者，內容工作者。1993 年生，桃園人。《b.l!nk》總編輯、《留白計畫》內容長。曾任文化媒體 BIOS monthly 副總編輯與藝文刊物主編。 關注文化與性別，喜歡拓荒與越界。注目尚未被完整的事物，以文字創作與編輯手藝作為理解世界的方式。出版短篇小說集《不道德索引》。