Original scientific paper

CLOSE PARTICIPATION, THE ART OF FEEDBACK, THE RELATION OF MUTUAL TRUST AND DIALOGIC CRITICISM

Nataša Govedić

Abstract

Contemporary theatre privileges the notion of »participation«, understanding it as the exchange of experiences between audience members and performers, usually creating an event that blurs boundaries between workshop experience (for the audience) and structured dramaturgy of performative frames (made by the authorial team). However, there are different and even more complex forms of participation in a performative piece, for instance live feedback exchanged between the writer, the performer, the dramaturg, the visual artist or the dancer and their »professional« viewer/s, in all cases understood as form of »close reading« or »close participation« in developing and rebuilding the artistic materials. This paper argues that sensitive critical feedback is constitutive part of art making and explores the way the artists themselves (via their own testimonies) see and transform feedback experience into open, critical dialogue with the community they belong to. Feedback is understood as a form of collaborative trust and subjunctive language of »becoming«; not as a evaluative or competitive way to »control« the artwork itself.

Keywords

Close participation; feedback; trust; exchange of art materials; critical feedback; artists¨testimonies; transformative experience of feedback; communal performace; language of trust and becoming

Hrčak ID:

158227

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/158227

Publication date:

9.5.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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