PERFORMANCE RESEARCH
VOL.26 ISSUE 3
ON PERCEPTION

Edited by Pil Hansen,
Freya Vass
Published by Routledge
132 pages
ISSN 1352-8165
Softcover

Price: 95 lei


‘On Perception’ raises questions about the perceptual strategies and effects of performance and their implications. The authors are motivated by the potential of performance to affect artists’ and audiences’ perceptual range and to re-sensitize us to connections between environment, human (inter)action and creative thinking. Drawing on varied theories of perception and its embodiment, the included studies derive from the fields of virtual reality design, landscape design, audio walks, theatre, dance, music, performance art, and literature. Topics highlighted include the ethics of proprioceptive manipulation, auditory and embodied attunement, (dis)embodied perception, psychedelic perception, sensory resistance, perceptual deterritorialization, discursive perceptual framing and the perceptual generation of communal Indigenous or Black identities. These topics are examined as effects of performance praxis and spectatorship, dramaturgical strategies or performative theories. Together, they explore, move through and reach beyond bodily and discursive constraints of perception to produce relational connections and enable imagination.

CONTENTS:

Editorial: On Perception
- PIL HANSEN AND FREYA VASS

Into the Nebula: Embodied perception of scenography in virtual environments
- NEBOJŠA TABAČKI

Interoceptive Dramaturgies of ‘Surrogate-selves’ in Performative VR Experiences
- PIOTR WOYCICKI

Fracturing Patriarchal Objectivity through Electro- Pop: Purity Ring and the vicissitudes of sight
- PHILIP WATKINSON

Perceiving, Navigating and Inhabiting: Performance design through sonic strategies
- EDUARDO ABRANTES

The Dancer–Drummer–Drum Body: Expanding corporeal experiences through improvisation in black dance
- ÁGATHA SILVIA NOGUEIRA E OLIVEIRA

A Dramaturgy of Feeling: Exploring Indigenous concepts of knowing through multimodal aesthetics
- SUSANNE THUROW

Moving across the Terrain: Perceiving and performing the landscape
- RENNIE TANG

Dining in Prison: Sensory framing and performative perception in Rideout’s Past Time
- PAUL GEARY

On the Edge of the Perceptible: Microacting, imaginary worlds and cognitive estrangement in virtual performance
- OLGA KRASA-RYABETS

Somatic Ways of Knowing: Fina Miralles’ earliest practices of sensorial perception
- CELIA VARA

Tactile Attention in One-to-One Performance: The effects of touch on participant experience
- NATALIA ESLING

Dancers’ Perceptual Skills: An ethnographic, cognitive and phenomenological study
- TOMASZ CIESIELSKI AND MAGDALENA SZMYTKE

Expanding Empathic and Perceptive Awareness: The experience of attunement in Contact Improvisation and Body Weather
- SARAH PINI AND CATHERINE DEANS

Psychedelic Perception in Queer-Feminist Reading and Writing (as Performance)
- DENI (DENISE) LI