ENACTIVISM AND PERFORMANCE ART: PUTTING ON DISPLAY OUR PERCEPTION
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophia October 30, 2021 DOI: 10.24193/subbphil.2021.2s.08 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that perception, modeled on the performing arts, is constitutively relational, participative, and transformative, and that seeing is something done together rather than alone. |
Abstract
Seeing, according to the enactive approach, is not something that happens inside our brain, rather it is something we do, but, as I will argue thanks to the performance art, it is something we do together. The performing arts, with their characteristics – autopoietic feed-back loop, spectator/performer exchange, oscillation of the dichotomous subject-object pair - constitute a model through which to investigate the nature of our perception, which is constitutively relational, participative, and transformative.