Affective Entanglements of Posthuman Bodies in Pain in Matthew Barney’s Drawing Restraint 9
Affective Entanglements of Posthuman Bodies in Pain in Matthew Barney’s Drawing Restraint 9

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses Mathew Barney’s 2005 experimental film Drawing Restraint 9 in the context of affective entanglements of the human body with biological, technological and geological processes. The artist’s production, as the paper proposes, indicates the necessity to rework the heightened hierarchical relationships of humans with non-human worlds. The bodies in pain—both human and non-human—in his work undergo constant morphogenesis, becoming a complex multiplicity with multiple layers of reference far beyond the human-social paradigm. As the paper implies, by referring to the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari and their new materialist theoretical reworkings, Barney’s film reveals unfolds the sustainability of interconnections and intra-actions of different matters that produce forms of socio-cultural resistance, eventually opening up possibilities of bodily regeneration.

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