WHEN THE DANCERS STARTED TO TALK ON STAGE

My intention with the given title is how we can share our methods and communicate them to others using our body as a medium. Combining definitions and notions of knowledge and experience, the study attempts to figure out which knowledge is utilised to communicate relevant information. The theoretical discussion embeds collected literature and reflections from different fields and frames within the scope of human actions and behaviour studies. Furthermore, the study explores a selection of methods and techniques developed in the diversity of body art, performance and contemporary dance – observed as tools developed to share techniques and outlooks regarding the body as a medium of communication. The selection includes examples by Rudolph Laban, Trisha Brown and Stelarc, as leading artists and researchers in the use of the body as a tool. The theoretical discussion of notions to explain this reflection quotes ideas from Diana Taylor, André Lepecki and Richard Schechner from performance studies and Markus Peschl and Heinz Von Foerster from cognition studies, for reference. Finally, the research proposes to re-observe technology and communication tools in participatory performances with potential to share informal knowledge using the body with others, understanding the body as a portable compilation of knowledge itself, however not perceivably shareable with an audience, participants or observers. On the other hand, understanding knowledge as singularity and the possibility to communicate this archive as unique and not repeatable. An interview series was conducted in attempt to verify and explore the validity of this claim. Finally the text collects the most important examples about my methods applied between 2012 -2014 in the MA Art & Science program activities, as part of the axis topic development, which uses different approaches within inter/trans–disciplinary projects. An explanation of the diploma exhibition as a concrete example of these points of views, connected at the same time and space through one performance or installation. The performative–installation explores the sharing of methods and tools as portable knowledge. The main topics examined are body and text: each in relation to art and science, but also as a metaphor of the body as a book–object. Can the body, by itself, be enough as a medium to describe and make assumptions about reality? The conclusion attempts to explain a method to use the body as a medium to share singular and individual knowledge with others through performative experiences. {link}http://invisible-skin.blogspot.co.at/{/link}

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WHEN THE DANCERS STARTED TO TALK ON STAGE

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