How does presence emerge in the performative moment? What happens when attention, voice, and movement become instruments of inquiry? This research maps the territories where performance meets phenomenology — and where the body becomes a site of knowledge.
How do you research presence without freezing it? This line of inquiry explores what happens in the performative moment — in the space between intention and event, between control and openness. Presence is both method and subject.
phenomenologyPerformance is not a one-way transmission. It is a relational event that emerges between bodies, rhythms, and perceptions. This research examines how attunement between performer and audience becomes the very content of the performative act.
relationalPerformance is not an object to be observed — it is something that happens. It cannot be fully predetermined, reproduced, or fixed. It unfolds here and now, in the presence of everyone involved. This is the ontological core of the work.
ontologyThe central tension of performative practice: structure vs. openness, intention vs. surrender. This is not a problem to solve but the very material of performance. The work lives in the space between making something happen and letting something happen.
tensionAttention is the fundamental medium. Not passive reception but active practice — a tool that creates presence as much as it receives it. Through attention, the space for encounter, for subtle signals, for reactivity and contact opens up.
mediumHow do you enter the space between what you already know and what you don't yet know? A methodological framework of embodied, vocal, and perceptual practices that grant access to performative material beyond technique.
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