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