GMU:Hallucinating computers and dreaming non-machines/The Conscious Body: An Emergency Act

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The conscious body is not a metaphor.

It is a real, physical state of being—where thought, emotion, and action intersect. It is capable. It is vulnerable. It is expressive.

And it is the place where urgency begins.

My experience in art and life has led me to understand the body not just as a performance tool, but as a site of awareness.

A space where perception, endurance, resistance, and change take form.

Pivotal moments—injury, stress, joy, failure—have shown me that everything starts in a vocalbodymind situation.

And this situation is always situated—socially, culturally, politically.

Expression, for me, is not only a creative act. It is a political one. It allows movement when language breaks down.

It creates sound within silence.

It turns reaction into action.

When systems collapse—what remains? Maybe conscious bodies. Maybe not. Maybe we still breathe.

Observe.

Respond.

We continue with what we have: presence, awareness, rhythm.

Maybe.

The body will grow again. It will feel.

It will act.

And, ‘Bon appétit’.

Lía – Paralia (a.k.a. Beach)

I am an actress and performer, a graduate of the Drama School of the National Theatre of Northern Greece (KThV). My relationship with performance is not only professional—it’s existential. Often uncomfortable. Sometimes more intense than necessary. My work spans musical theatre, dance theatre, and performance art, shaped through collaborations with groups and artists such as Neforma, La Pocha Nostra, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Saul Garcia Lopez, Non Grata, Roccio Boliver, Anosia, and others. I’ve presented work at festivals, in alternative spaces, and anywhere willing to host (or tolerate) bodies that speak, sing, sweat, and ask questions—while seeking transformative, alternative, or activist answers.