Oooo yes. Maybe in the context of looking at life like art, the ‘others’ are the parts of ourself that need care & more beautiful stories. I sometimes feel like the heart of my writing practice is pointing at wonderful and mysterious things and saying “Look!”
Love this topic. Thanks for sharing this. Are you familiar with the Order of the Third Bird? The New Yorker published a long article about their work in May called "The Battle for Attention." It seems aligned with your areas of inquiry. My area of focus is performance where there are similar questions about the nature of attention and spectatorship. FWIW I think spectatorship in live performance is a form of co-creation where the art actually happens in the space between the observed and observer, the performance and the spectator. While it's not an exact correlation because he is writing about literature, the philosopher Charles Taylor uses a term called "interspace" which I find very interesting. I've been using the much clunkier "field of deep intersubjectivity." ;-)
Thank you for this thoughtful response! I’m looking forward to reading that New Yorker article, I’m not familiar with the Order of the Third Bird. And I also love the notions of “interspace” and “deep intersubjectivity”. My PhD research dips a little into narrative studies and co-creation within audience imaginations (in the context of storytelling using digital tools in museums), but I hadn’t made that connection with the practice of looking intentionally at daily life- so interesting! Thanks again for sharing your reflections.
My first thought was this quote: “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” - Edgar Degas
Oooo yes. Maybe in the context of looking at life like art, the ‘others’ are the parts of ourself that need care & more beautiful stories. I sometimes feel like the heart of my writing practice is pointing at wonderful and mysterious things and saying “Look!”
Love this topic. Thanks for sharing this. Are you familiar with the Order of the Third Bird? The New Yorker published a long article about their work in May called "The Battle for Attention." It seems aligned with your areas of inquiry. My area of focus is performance where there are similar questions about the nature of attention and spectatorship. FWIW I think spectatorship in live performance is a form of co-creation where the art actually happens in the space between the observed and observer, the performance and the spectator. While it's not an exact correlation because he is writing about literature, the philosopher Charles Taylor uses a term called "interspace" which I find very interesting. I've been using the much clunkier "field of deep intersubjectivity." ;-)
Thank you for this thoughtful response! I’m looking forward to reading that New Yorker article, I’m not familiar with the Order of the Third Bird. And I also love the notions of “interspace” and “deep intersubjectivity”. My PhD research dips a little into narrative studies and co-creation within audience imaginations (in the context of storytelling using digital tools in museums), but I hadn’t made that connection with the practice of looking intentionally at daily life- so interesting! Thanks again for sharing your reflections.