Abstract
New materialism emphasizes on the nature of matter and the modes of self-transformation in our material environment. Until now, the body has remained mired through the discursive practices of biology and natural sciences. However, the body is also a material. The bodies have capacities that emerge within a multitude of organic and social processes functioning interactively and productively. Additionally, the materialization of the body entails an interlocking relationship between the organic transformations of the body and the material details of everyday life. Susan Miller’s solo performance dramatizes the materialization of the damaged body through vibrant entanglement between chemotherapy of breast cancer and her daily life. The scar on her lost breast amounts to the loss of love, material vitality and generative forces. And the unforeseen mutations and trajectories of illness are the results of trans-corporeality between biological processes and environmental conditions. This paper thus examines a new material perspective on the damaged female body through Miller’s illness narrative.
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