Abstract
This paper presents methods of experiential research derived from formalised techniques of performing arts practice. Through a process of dedicated laboratories, expert practices are extracted and formalised into methods of situating analytic experientiality. The paper reports and reflects on the developed methods as a system for the design of research in situated experience. The proposed methods of staged experientiality build on previous research in enabling participation as an analytic medium of research. Further, the insights in expert practices of performance arts derive from the authors’ position as expert performance practitioners, and their long standing engagement in formalisation and transfer of knowledge within the field. The use of staging techniques and expert practices of the performer is formed into research methods that facilitate knowledge transfer as systems of engagement. The suggested mode of engagement is designed to develop an enhanced capacity towards generating and analysing experiential situations. The methods also seek to bridge between the exploratory procedures of artistic practice and the demands for rigor in research inquiries, devising a method of staging experientiality in a way that can both accommodate the demands of artistic and research investigations. The method has specific relevance when analysing or generating complex experiential situations, where the experience can only be accessed by actual participation, and which has experiential qualities only accessible by actual engagement. In this way, the method is a framework that can be applied and adapted to various knowledge enterprises that need to unpack experiential qualities that are situation specific and partly generated by the investigator in the process of investigation. This includes subjects of study that are embedded in experiential situation, and can only be experienced, interpreted and communicated from an experiential position and while the experience is unfolding; from within the moment of being experienced.
Keywords
Participation as medium; Performance-based emergent method; Staging experientiality; Narrativation as evidence
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/eksig2011.112
Citation
Søndergaard, K.,and Yngve Petersen, K.(2011) Staging Multi-modal Explorative Research using Formalised Techniques of Performing Arts, in Niedderer, K., Mey, K., Roworth-Stokes, S. (eds.), EKSIG 2011: Skin Deep - Experiential Knowledge & Multi-sensory Communication, 23–24 June 2011, Farnham, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.21606/eksig2011.112
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Staging Multi-modal Explorative Research using Formalised Techniques of Performing Arts
This paper presents methods of experiential research derived from formalised techniques of performing arts practice. Through a process of dedicated laboratories, expert practices are extracted and formalised into methods of situating analytic experientiality. The paper reports and reflects on the developed methods as a system for the design of research in situated experience. The proposed methods of staged experientiality build on previous research in enabling participation as an analytic medium of research. Further, the insights in expert practices of performance arts derive from the authors’ position as expert performance practitioners, and their long standing engagement in formalisation and transfer of knowledge within the field. The use of staging techniques and expert practices of the performer is formed into research methods that facilitate knowledge transfer as systems of engagement. The suggested mode of engagement is designed to develop an enhanced capacity towards generating and analysing experiential situations. The methods also seek to bridge between the exploratory procedures of artistic practice and the demands for rigor in research inquiries, devising a method of staging experientiality in a way that can both accommodate the demands of artistic and research investigations. The method has specific relevance when analysing or generating complex experiential situations, where the experience can only be accessed by actual participation, and which has experiential qualities only accessible by actual engagement. In this way, the method is a framework that can be applied and adapted to various knowledge enterprises that need to unpack experiential qualities that are situation specific and partly generated by the investigator in the process of investigation. This includes subjects of study that are embedded in experiential situation, and can only be experienced, interpreted and communicated from an experiential position and while the experience is unfolding; from within the moment of being experienced.