Welcome to the term\u2019s first K3 seminar. It will be held by Susan Kozel, Professor of New Media, K3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The title of the talk is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Performing phenomenology, phenomenology in performance<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n It will take place on Wednesday, February 5 at 10.15-12.00 in The K3 Open Studio, NIC 0541, Niagara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Below\nyou will find an abstract for the talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cbreadth\nof thought reacting with intensity of sensitive experience stands out as an\nultimate claim of existence\u201d (Whitehead 1929)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Supporting\nthe goal of systematically connecting phenomenology and performativity, this\nseminar will explore a methodological, practical and fundamentally corporeal\nconnection between the two. It expands ongoing work toward refining a method of\nphenomenological reflection that can account for the nuance and liminality of\naffective and somatic states. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nexploration of performance and phenomenology will be grounded in the work of\nchoreographer Margr\u00e9t Sara Gu\u00f0j\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir; in particular, a collaboration with\nher that produced a Mixed Reality archive as part of the Living Archives\nresearch project. Attention will be devoted not simply to demonstrating the MR\ninstallation, but to the special relationship between phenomenology and performance\noccurring through Gu\u00f0j\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir deeply somatic choreographies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This is an\napplied phenomenology but it does not adhere to a formula that can be brought\nto bear to experience, like a tool out of a box. Rather, in and through its\nperformance, the bodies of the dancers and the observers come to be. This\ncommitment to understanding and applying a variation of phenomenological method\nis faithful to the Merleau-Pontian spirit which has shaped it, acknowledging\nthe inherence of the one who sees in that which she sees, \u201ca self through\nconfusion,\u201d one that is \u201ccaught up in things, that has a front and a back, a\npast and a future.\u201d This method exists in motion, in its very application by an\nunstable self. When applied to the experience of watching dance, it becomes a\nphenomenology of performance and phenomenology as performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to the term\u2019s first K3 seminar. It will be held by Susan Kozel, Professor of New Media, K3. The title of the talk is: Performing phenomenology, phenomenology in performance It will take place on Wednesday, February 5 at 10.15-12.00 … Continue reading