Abstract

The following article aims to review the notion of both body and skin in Jean-Luc Nancy's thinking. The scope and discussions of the aesthetic conceptions of Nancy's thought propose an ex-explanatory reflection of the body as the central device of contemporary performing arts. The conformations of 'being' -in contrast to what Heidegger thought-, allow 'exposing', or, opening the sense of the body in relation to 'being', which, in short, would become the pure exposition of being same as body. The body, from the reflection of its exposition, is only the extension of the uncapturable soul, it is its expeau. So, these reflective singularities on the body provided by Nancy, allow glimpses of an irreducibility of the body as an operative extension of the (performing) arts, that is, an idle body, a self-bent body in its infinite alteration. The performing arts are the arts of over-exposure.