Hyper-reflective
Process of thought that takes into account its own functioning. Like the recognition in contemporary physics of the impact of the observer on the observed, another operation beyond the "conversion of sense experience into reflection" is necessary; "a sort of hyper-reflection (sur-reflexion) that would also take itself and the changes it introduces into the spectacle into account (Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception).
Live Art
When an artist chooses to make work directly in front of the audience in space and time. more
Lived-body
"The lived-body concept attempts to cut beneath the subject-object split, recognizing a dialectical and lived dualism but not a dualism of body-soul or body-mind. A phenomenological (or lived) dualism implicates consciousness and intention and assumes an indivisible unity of body, soul, and mind"
(Fraleigh. S. H, Dance and the Lived Body, University of Pitssburgh Press: 1987).
Mediatization
Media shapes and forms processes of communication and transforms society.
“The mediatized version of [performing] arts defines the normative experience of them”
(Philip Auslander).
Milgram experiment (1961)
Experiment conducted by Stanley Milgram to explore obedience to authority where participants would be asked to administer electric shocks to other participants.
Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism is a policy model of social studies and economics that transfers control of economic factors to the private sector from the public sector.
Performativity (Gender)
“...has to do with repetition, very often with the repetition of oppressive and
painful gender norms to force them to resignify. This is not freedom, but a question of how to work the trap that one is inevitably in” (from Artforum interview with Judith Butler)
Pre-reflective (non-knowing)
The state before reflection, before prior-knowledge. It is not a steady state; it appears and vanishes in a constant sliding exchange with reflection.
Relational (art)
A set of artistic practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space (Nicholas Bourriaud)
Sincere performance
Individual believes in the impression fostered by their own performance. The performer can be fully taken in by their own act and can be sincerely convinced that the impression of reality which they stage is the real reality (Erving Goffman).
Species-Identity
To be conscious of self is to recognise oneself as a member of a species which inhabits and negotiates a shared phenomenal world on the same basic set of physical conditions as oneself. Personal identity is secured and defined on the basis of comparison and contrast in the context of social interchange.
Stanford Prison Experiment (1971)
Experiment to test the power of situations to shape individuals' behaviour. Young men were divided into the roles of Prisoner and Guard and put in a prison-like environment in the basement of the Psychology Department at Stanford University. The study was meant to last two weeks. But the brutality of the Guards and the suffering of the Prisoners was so intense that it had to be terminated after only six days.