Material and Spatial Immersion: Embodiment Intensified, Dissolved, Transcended and Problematised

By Tamar Torrance McCambridge

‘Immersion’ is a term with equivocal meaning—a homonym, used often to describe qualities of illusion, interaction, involvement, absorption, and so on. However, while certainly manifold in its characterisations, consistently, the conceptualisation of immersion—as both a process and state of being—involves the dissolution, or transgression of conventional boundaries which separate oneself from the external world.