I saw this quote in the program for Buddies in Bad Times Theatre’s annual Rhubarb Festival of raw radical performance, curated by Laura Nanni.
“The body is the physical agent of the structures of everyday experience. It is the producer of dreams, the transmitter and receiver of cultural messages, a creature of habits, a desiring machine, a repository of memories, an actor in the theatre of power, a tissue of affects and feelings. Because the body is at the boundary between biology and society, between drives and discourse, between the sexual and its categorization in terms of power, biography and history, it is the site par excellence for transgressing the constraints of meaning or what social discourse prescribes as normal.”
–Nelly Richard, Cultural Theorist