%0 Journal Article
%T To write a body – Lorette Nobecourt’s La Démageaison versus body art | abstract
%A Kotowska, Katarzyna
%J Cahiers ERTA
%V 2014
%R 10.4467/23538953CE.14.023.3430
%N Numéro  6 Nature morte
%P 241-252
%K Nobécourt, semiotic, body art, skin
%@ 2300-4681
%D 2014
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/ecrire-son-corps-la-demangeaison-de-lorette-nobecourt-versus-body-art
%X A surface of a human skin determines a border between outer and inner sphere. Tightness of this division, however, is a subject to permanent perturbation. It makes human skin a fascinating mean of communication. The visual arts (ex. body art) and literature derive from that potential. In that context, human skin appears as a place where Julia Kristeva’s distinction between « symbolic » and « semiotic » diffuses. A body becomes a corps parlant (speaking body). This process of body writing is analyzed by a collation of Lorette Nobécourt’s book La Démangeaison (Itching) and some body art’s enterprises.