Experiments in Immersive, One-To-One Performance

Understanding Audience Experience Through Sensory Engagement
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-367-63122-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 422 g

Reihe: Audience Research

This book investigates audience experience through the lens of sensory engagement in immersive, one-to-one performance.

It presents a distinct, practice-based research (PBR) framework – a performance research ‘laboratory’ – designed to evaluate the effects on diverse audience experiences of two ‘sense-specific manipulations’: eye masks and touch. Through a qualitative analysis of responses from seventy-four individual audience participants, this book offers insight into how these popular ‘immersing’ strategies might be experienced. What do these strategies achieve? How do audience participants make sense of them? Do audience responses align with artistic intentions? And how does the PBR framework designed to address these questions influence the outcomes? Through an analysis of three sets of one-to-one performance experiments generating comparative data about the experience of sense-specific manipulation, this book proposes the utility of merging methodologies in artistic research with empirical audience research in theatre and performance studies.

This study offers a new perspective on the value of sensory-focused, immersive, one-to-one experience as a means of resensitizing audience participants through performance.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Esling, Natalia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Theorizing, Practising, Framing 1. Setting the Stage 2. Sensitizing Audience Participants (Performance Case Studies) 3. Conceptualizing (the) Dramaturgical Research(er) Part II: Measuring And Evaluating ‘Audience Experience’ 4. Designing the Performance Research Laboratory 5. Understanding the Impact of Eye Masks 6. Understanding the Impact of Touch 7. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Natalia Esling is an independent scholar who has done postdoctoral research in Theatre Studies at the University of British Columbia.