A Familiar Vessel
ARTS PRACTICE RESEARCH AND PERFORMANCE
How can I encourage the understanding of interpersonal bodily communication through using the conceptual framework of “Affect” as a compositional tool within my performance practice?
‘A Familiar Vessel’ is the name of my performance piece created as part of my artistic project. The research uses my retrospective experiences in collaboration with the conceptual framework of “affect” to gather compositional tools that encourage the understanding of interpersonal bodily communication.
Through the collaboration of interdisciplinary potentialities of expression and the innate human response systems, this research can promote a non-verbal social landscape of empathetic bodily communication.
My research serves as a response to the linguistic-oriented world of counter-intuitive rationale. My endeavour is to facilitate and promote the engagement of primal human expression, encouraging us to “read'' one another without text. I am intrigued by the staging of affects and our efforts to actualise affects in performance. Will the old approaches need a necessary reinvention? How are the expressions aided or hindered by the social, referential context we exist in?
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Written by Alice Presencer
MFA Performing Arts 2021-23
Stockholms University of the Arts
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Performed SKH 2023 and Scenoskop 2023