"The most disturbing images of Corps Etranger are surely those that show the visceral body, as it is defined by two optical instruments (the endoscope and coloscope) used to scan certain parts of the digestive system, colon and intestines. The visual scanning sequence is accompanied by an ultrasound recording of heartbeats which echo throughout different parts of the body and are punctuated at regular intervals by the sound of Hatoum's breathing. The body's deep cavities are illuminated and examined by the camera in its continual search for orifices. Deeper and deeper it moves, probing these visceral tunnels until, unable to advance any farther, it reemerges only to seek elsewhere, as if compelled to go on blindly without any real goal, without any beginning or end."- Christine Ross To Touch the Other: A Story of Corpo-electronic Surfaces, PUBLIC; Jan.1996/ Vol. 13.
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