Description
‘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.
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CONTENTS
1 Editorial: On Perception
PIL HANSEN AND FREYA VASS
9 Into the Nebula: Embodied perception of scenography in virtual environments
NEBOJŠA TABAČKI
17 Interoceptive Dramaturgies of ‘Surrogate-selves’ in Performative VR Experiences
PIOTR WOYCICKI
27 Fracturing Patriarchal Objectivity through Electro- Pop: Purity Ring and the vicissitudes of sight
PHILIP WATKINSON
31 Perceiving, Navigating and Inhabiting: Performance design through sonic strategies
EDUARDO ABRANTES
39 The Dancer–Drummer–Drum Body: Expanding corporeal experiences through improvisation in black dance
ÁGATHA SILVIA NOGUEIRA E OLIVEIRA
49 A Dramaturgy of Feeling: Exploring Indigenous concepts of knowing through multimodal aesthetics
SUSANNE THUROW
59 Moving across the Terrain: Perceiving and performing the landscape
RENNIE TANG
66 Dining in Prison: Sensory framing and performative perception in Rideout’s Past Time
PAUL GEARY
74 On the Edge of the Perceptible: Microacting, imaginary worlds and cognitive estrangement in virtual performance
OLGA KRASA-RYABETS
80 Somatic Ways of Knowing: Fina Miralles’ earliest practices of sensorial perception
CELIA VARA
88 Tactile Attention in One-to-One Performance: The effects of touch on participant experience
NATALIA ESLING
97 Dancers’ Perceptual Skills: An ethnographic, cognitive and phenomenological study
TOMASZ CIESIELSKI AND MAGDALENA SZMYTKE
106 Expanding Empathic and Perceptive Awareness: The experience of attunement in Contact Improvisation and Body Weather
SARAH PINI AND CATHERINE DEANS
114 Psychedelic Perception in Queer-Feminist Reading and Writing (as Performance)
DENI (DENISE) LI
REVIEWS
125 Performing care on the borders of the self in Tactility Studies: Pandemic distances
CORRIE TAN
127 Intellectual responsibility and eco-aesthetic existentialism: Experimental kinetic dramaturgies from Flanders
PETER M. BOENISCH
128 The Vindication of Vocality in Occitan and Indigenous Oral Traditions
JAIME MEIER
130 ‘Daily excursions across the heavens’
DANIELLE GOLDMAN
