A performed body is never completely legible or fixed in its effects—it becomes meaningful through its encounter with the interpreter or viewer. A performed body makes us increasingly aware of our own state of simultaneous intersubjectivity and interobjectivity, the latter being a structure of engagement with the materiality of things, in which we recognize what it subjectively feels like to be objectively embodied.

The body unites us directly to things—a thing among things, and an object among objects.