Audience Body

• Audience Body is part of Tuomas Laitinen’s artistic research project. The performance took place in November 2022 as part of the programs of Reality Research Center, Moving in November festival and Center for New Dance Zodiak. Audience Body is composed of several different reading objects, or “chapters”, which are available for the audience members to explore. The texts deal with the phenomeon of audience, combining different writing styles (theatre play, personal messages, autotheory, lyric essay, geometry) into an excessive textual composition. The work was performed six times during three days. The traces of each performance were left in the space and thus the previous audiences would haunt the space through unwound paper rolls and ripped letters. The 90 minute duration of the performance would start to exhaust the audience’s need to read and they would begin to audience each other. Thus the audience performed and started to audience itself performing. The work functioned as an autopoetic performance apparatus.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Konst (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Sound

Listening

Participatory art

Artistic practices

Konstnärliga praktiker

Publication and Content Type

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kfu (subject category)