Naslov
Redefining Spontaneity

Autori
Petlevski, Sibila

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
The Actor is Dead - Long Live the Actor. Sterijino Pozorje, Novi Sad and International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC) 14th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF THEATRE CRITICS' & SCHOLARS / Medenica, Ivan - : Sterijino pozorje/International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC), 2012

Skup
Sterijino Pozorje, Novi Sad and International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC) 14th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF THEATRE CRITICS' & SCHOLARS

Mjesto i datum
Novi Sad, Srbija, 25.05.2012. - 28.05.2012

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Spontaneity; Performance; Acting; Music; Systems Theory; Biomatrix; Improvisation; Conscious Resting State; Stimulus-Independent Thought; Default-mode Network; Creativity.

Sažetak
This paper is an attempt at cross-disciplinary understanding of the concept of spontaneity. It combines insights from performance theory with systems theory and neurobiology. However, we are aware of the major shift in research methodology from technical to more contextual and pragmatic approach. We think that purely theoretical insight into spontaneity proves inadequate when it comes to analyzing performing arts – and thus open up room for new applied methods for the social sciences and performance analysis based on research in practice. This paper is divided into three parts. In the Introductory remarks we discuss the illusion of spontaneity in representational and non- representational systems of acting ; we point to the everlasting tension between theory and practice and distinguish between the notions of spontaneity and improvisation. The second part of this paper suggests new possibilities of scientific (re)defining of an otherwise elusive “aesthetic spontaneity”. The third part of this paper makes a bold hypothesis that recent neurobiological explanations of spontaneous brain activity connected to the experiments with “default-mode network” might have some important implications on understanding creative potential of spontaneity in different media of artistic expression, particularly in jazz improvisation and in certain acting techniques.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Znanost o umjetnosti

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