This book offers a timely discussion about the interventions and tensions between two contested and contentious fields, performance and phenomenology, with international case studies that map an emerging 21st century terrain of critical and performance practice. Building on the foundational texts of both fields that established the performativity of perception and cognition, Performance and Phenomenology continues a tradition that considers experience to be the foundation of being and meaning. Acknowledging the history and critical polemics against phenomenological...
This book offers a timely discussion about the interventions and tensions between two contested and contentious fields, performance and phenomenolo...
What happens in the relationship between audience and performer? What choices are made in the space of performance about how we attend to others?
A Strange Proximity examines stage presence as key to thinking about performance and ethics. It is the first phenomenological account of ethics drawn from, rather than applied to, performance.
The ethical stakes of performance, argues Jon Foley Sherman, rest not so much in its objects the performers and the show itself as in the how of attending to others. A Strange Proximity is a unique perspective on the implications of attention in...
What happens in the relationship between audience and performer? What choices are made in the space of performance about how we attend to others? <...
