Performance Research Volume 26 Issue 3

On Perception

Issue editors: Pil Hansen & Freya Vass

ISSN: 1352-8165 (2022) 26:3

‘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